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Brian Condenanza
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Forbes 30 Under 30 | VC investing in fintech & AI
Founder @HeveaCapital | Backing builders who break things (the right way)

🇦🇷 Argentine by birth, global by portfolio
🌐 Sometimes serious, always curious
🗝️ Here for the future, not the hype
• The danger is a widening skills gap, not a job apocalypse, direct attention and capital there.
May 22, 2025 at 2:06 AM
• Leaders need reskilling budgets, investors need augmentation bets, policymakers need tax nudges that reward human in the loop deployments, society gains when learning keeps pace with tech.
May 22, 2025 at 2:06 AM
• Build your moat, anchor a physical craft, pair it with digital fluency, cultivate soft power, earn the licence that gates liability, multiply those layers and you stay ahead of GPT whatever comes next.
May 22, 2025 at 2:06 AM
• Everyday examples, plumbers, wind turbine techs, oncology nurses, disaster relief coordinators, artisan makers, vocational educators, truck drivers while autonomy crawls through regulation.
May 22, 2025 at 2:06 AM
• Work that shrugs off code includes embodied dexterity in shifting environments, empathy plus accountability in high stakes settings, rapid judgment when rules mutate, and premium craft where story matters.
May 22, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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The move toward mandatory audits isn’t the end of innovation.
It’s a necessary shift to maturity.

We’ve had our AI boom. Now comes the infrastructure.
April 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Still, one thing is clear:
Trustworthy AI is no longer about good intentions.

It’s about documentation, explainability, and accountability—ideally baked in from the start.
April 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Of course, there’s friction:
– What’s a valid audit?
– Who performs it?
– What about IP?
– How do we avoid check-the-box compliance?

We’re in early days. The frameworks are evolving.
April 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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The reasons are clear:
We’re deploying AI into complex, sensitive systems—finance, healthcare, education.

But we often have no idea how it behaves under pressure.
Audits make the invisible visible.
April 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Meanwhile:
– New York City now requires bias audits for AI in hiring.
– Colorado bans AI systems that discriminate.
– China has its own auditing model—but with ideological guardrails.

Auditing is no longer just a “Western” idea.
April 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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The EU’s AI Act marks a global shift:
Any “high-risk” AI system must pass through transparency checks and undergo conformity assessments—aka audits.

It’s about turning the black box into something we can actually inspect.
April 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
This is why AI policy can’t be a copy-paste game. It has to be situated—aware of history, infrastructure, and public trust.

Argentina’s choice isn’t just about AI.
It’s about what kind of digital future it wants to build.
April 20, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Argentina sits at a critical intersection.
It can be a lab for 21st-century governance—or a case study in how techno-optimism collides with social complexity.

Either way, what happens here won’t stay here. Others are watching.
April 20, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Yet there are thoughtful voices too—legal scholars, data ethics experts, and digital rights advocates pushing for an Argentine model of responsible AI.

Not a clone of Europe or the Valley. Something that reflects local context and global standards.
April 20, 2025 at 4:05 AM