My busy month as speaker at interesting workshops and panels:
Governing the AGI Commons: March 4 brought me to Oxford for this one-day workshop organized by Google DeepMind and the Cooperative AI Foundation. I brought a perspective on how the harms of social media might be recapitulated in even worse form in AI, and how multiagent systems that support individual and community agency hold promise to avert that. It was Chatham House Rule, so I can't say much, but a brief report is planned, to be linked from here when available
Interoperability as a Design Principle for the Digital Economy: On March 24, I walked a few blocks for this one-day workshop at NYU Stern Business School co-sponsored by UCL Centre for Law, Economics and Society, speaking on a panel on Designing Interoperability in Social Media. Discussion was catalyzed by an in-depth paper. My understanding is that video and/or decks will become available (to be linked from here).
Can Middleware Save Social Media?: March 26 brought me to the National Press Club in Washington for this Knight First Amendment Institute full-day convening on this question, speaking on the first panel, Introduction to Middleware. Video of these wide-ranging sessions with leading experts is online and well worth viewing by both newcomers and old hands on this issues.
