John Artro Morris
johnartromorris.bsky.social
John Artro Morris
@johnartromorris.bsky.social
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The Pope gets it.

The most important question about AI isn’t a technical question.

The most important a question is about how to maintain and grow a just society in the age of AI.
May 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
As it is VE Day today,
My grandad was in the navy in WW2. Someone asked him what did you learn in the war? He answered only one thing, “War is horrendous and it should be avoided at all costs”
May 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"This privatization creates strategic vulnerabilities and weakens democratic accountability. The tech companies are, by nature, dedicated to profit and private ambitions, not the security and welfare of the American public."
www.techpolicy.press/big-techs-fo...
Big Tech's Foreign Policy Takeover | TechPolicy.Press
To understand their power, we need to scrutinize Big Tech firms as foreign policy actors, writes Gordon LaForge.
www.techpolicy.press
May 4, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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"Governments and businesses serve vastly different purposes, answer to different constituencies, and operate on entirely different timelines."
✍️Governments and businesses serve vastly different purposes.

IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social and Co-Deputy Director @rainerkattel.bsky.social expand on these key differences, arguing for public sector reform to focus on long-term capability building.

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May 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Many types and applications of AI were, and remain, good ideas. The generative AI that’s being pushed down all our throats is another story
In a few years (max) when people start asking why we thought AI was a good idea I am creating a record that we did NOT think it was a good idea and the main reason people were ever convinced was billions of dollars of propaganda
April 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
www.techpolicy.press/clouds-over-...
'Where does power lie?' Has always been a complicated question, even more so today.
That doesn't mean people shouldn't think very seriously about the consequences of things like 'Internet Governance in the Hyperscaler Era'
Clouds Over Public Infrastructure: Rethinking Internet Governance in the Hyperscaler Era | TechPolicy.Press
Dutch resistance to Amazon Web Services storage highlights global risks of hyperscaler cloud dominance, writes Dr. Corinne Cath.
www.techpolicy.press
April 28, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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A product whose main selling point is, "Well, it's not going away," has a problem.
April 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM