Hey everyone! So have you ever read a book that you enjoyed a lot and you got some advice that you were excited about? You tried it for a couple days and then you never tried it again. Even more so, have you ever read a book, gotten advice from it and then continued to give that advice to others even when you didn't try it yourself? Or you tried it for a short period and then decided that oh that's a good idea and you kept teaching others to do that? The challenge that we are experiencing these days as a society is human beings. It's not that we lack information which was the challenge in the past but the thing is we have an overabundance of information and we're not always able to choose which is the right information and which is the wrong information. As you might know this series is called pressure testing life which means you always have to question what you choose to believe in and what you choose to convey to others. And taking advice whether that's from another person or whether that's from a book always needs to be pressure tested. You always need to see if it works for a while not just only for a couple of days and if it works under difficult circumstances. Or in other words as I'd like to say it's easy to be good and do good when things are going well or otherwise when you're not experiencing resistance or difficult circumstances but the real thing is whether you're able to apply the methods and you're able to apply the things that you were suggested under difficult circumstances, under circumstances which are not going under your way. But instead of me just telling you what to do and me telling like this is the right advice for you instead of just doing that I will lead by example and I will show you how I apply this method of pressure testing myself. And the advice and the method that we're going to look at is from a book that I really enjoyed reading lately it's written by James Clear and called Atomic Habits. Well I'm not very enthusiastic about the name of the book a lot of the information that is written there seems to be very good very smart tested but until you test it yourself you don't know if it works and the method that we're going to look at is what James Clear calls the two-minute rule. The concept of the two-minute rule is that if you want to develop a habit you have to associate positive experiences with it. In other words if you're going to hate doing something you will not want to repeat that and if you're going to enjoy doing something you're going to be repeating that easily and in that way you will naturally develop a new habit.  And the concept behind it is quite good because theoretically to do something for less than two minutes it's not difficult whatever thing that may be. And the deal with this method is that if you enjoy doing it you can also continue to do it more and you can expand it to greater lengths but you you have to commit to doing it not more than two minutes which makes it feel like a positive experience and then you don't associate negative experiences with it and that gives you a chance to do it again the next day. Now whether this method is real or not whether it works or not while it sounds great we will still pressure test it and for the next 10 days I will commit to doing jogging not more than two minutes every day and if I will feel like it I will expand to doing more. Now whether this method will stick with me for 10 days or not we'll see in the video right now. So this is day one of pressure testing the two-minute principle and I have my buddy here with me today we're going to do together I'm going to set up my phone we have to run no more than two minutes and then we'll see if we'll keep in from there so let's not waste any more time in. Good going. So we ended up running not such a bad time it's eight minutes so four times more than planned and eight times more than people who don't run at all. Also I have to say that we ran on a pretty intense tempo so it wasn't just light jogging I did lose my breath a bit. Could have ran more and pardon me felt like it but I also wanted to respect the pressure testing and only run until I really felt inspired. But then when I started to feel a bit tired I realized I didn't make it enjoyable so that the next day we could still do it again. The last thing I wanted to say is we have to acknowledge the day is beautiful today it's a Saturday I could sleep in so it's not much of a pressure testing as much just testing because on such a day it's not that difficult to run comparatively. But still if I wouldn't have set out for those less than two minutes probably I wouldn't have jogged at all and now I ended up jogging for at least eight minutes and I'm even tempted to do it again today so we'll see where that leads. But if I won't see you today again then I'll see you in the next day. So today is day two of testing out the two-minute jogging principle habit. The weather's pretty good but today's Sunday so I'm not as inspired to run but knowing that it's only two minutes that I will have to run which still is easy so I'm gonna do it and we'll see if it will expand into a longer jog. I have my buddy again together with me and also it's the Independence Day of Lithuania and I'm the capital of Vilnius so probably we'll see something cool as we run so let's get going. So we ended up running for about eight minutes again but the tempo was pretty intense again. Today again I didn't feel as inspired to run around half of the half way of the running. I felt my body was saying well maybe let's not do this again but still I think that's a two-minute jog. Definitely got me out of bed, definitely got me running and I still feel good that I did that. So we'll see how tomorrow goes.  When I started running I felt like yeah I'm enjoying this and I ran for as long and pretty intensively until I felt okay I'm starting to run out of energy and I figured it's a good time to start to circle back because that's kind of the sign that you know I still have to make my way back so I want to make sure that positive impression of running that positive feeling is ingrained primarily. Turns out I ran quite far so by the time I circled back it took a while so but I still felt good I felt like okay I'm running towards my home I'm running to rest so it feels all good. So yeah basically one more proof that the system works and the weather is not ideal it's not raining but it's not sunshine so can't blame it on the weather but can't say it's supported either so so far the results are good. So today I didn't feel as inspired to run I guess maybe it's because I ran for longer yesterday than usually or maybe it's because today it was raining or maybe it's because it's the fourth day in a row and you know technically I should kind of take a break or rest in between I think that would be an intelligent thing to do but since I committed to doing 10 days I will continue through but nevertheless still I ended up the sun came out right now it wasn't shining as I was running. Now yeah today I ran for 10 minutes that's actually still better than day one or day two even though I didn't feel as inspired to run but again knowing that it's only two minutes got me out to run and by the end while in the beginning I was more struggling I was like okay I just need to do this by minutes seven minutes eight I was like actually you know what I'm trying to enjoy this this actually feels good and I finished in a good mood so it's another victory. So that's last night I did Jiu Jitsu after a break and my body's pretty tired but I did have a good night's sleep and and yeah so I'm actually feeling pretty good so despite the body being tired you'll see how long I will run today the others. So today is the sixth day of pressure testing the two minute principle in jogging but as you see I am not outside unfortunately I am in my bed and that's because I caught a cold not a very heavy one and I'm treating it well with lots of supplements and everything I can but also to let's admit it I was running outside which fairly like clothes at fairly cold weather that probably was the case why I got sick but I want to make sure that I don't make it worse so today I will skip one day of jogging and we will see if I feel better tomorrow and if I can restart and we will also pressure test what it's like to come back to that principle of two minute jogging and whether that's going to be effective. So now let's get some rest and we'll see what happens the next day. So this is day eight of doing the two minute jogging challenge and pressure testing and I am in city center of beautiful Dublin here today to film the huge Bellator event but aside from that it's been a couple of days that I spent resting I'm still a little bit sick I still have a bit of a sore throat but I'm not that bad and despite the fact that I woke up today super early at 4am I had two flights I still realize I need to keep going with my commitments and now again what I know it's just two minutes that I need to run easy to do even I skipped a couple of days I had this intense day today and despite the fact that I'm not wearing my sport clothes and you know this is an unfamiliar city my shoes are not fit for running I decided I still need to get the habit going and I'll just run for two minutes just towards my place where I will live so let's do that and put a check for another day day nine so almost coming to the very end of the pressure testing again a good chance to pressure test and traveling I haven't slept that much but I feel pretty good and not the right clothes I know location but why would I stop from jogging for two minutes and stopping my habit so that's what I'm gonna do and we'll continue to do it tomorrow obviously see you then so this is the last day of the 10th well you know what I'm talking I'm still in Dublin it's 4.40am I'm going to my bus to the airport I haven't slept all night but I have a very good day and I thought I still haven't ran my two minutes so as I'm going to the bus I decided to keep the habit going and as always it's the same tune two minutes not a big deal I can run for two minutes so let's do some jogging so looking back at all the 10 days of jogging and a couple of days of skipping jogging because of being sick I consider that the method worked really well but the thing with pressure testing and questioning is you shouldn't just believe in it just because I did it and I say it works maybe it worked for me maybe it will not work for you of course the fact that it worked for me there is a bigger chance that it will work for others too but what I recommend is not just believing in me just because I said it or I showed it but try it yourself apply the same method of pressure testing either with this method or with any method that you're suggested or you read about don't take it just as truth and don't think it works just because it worked for two days see if it works for a longer period see if it works under difficult circumstances and if it does then you can put some faith in it as even the Buddha said don't believe in me always test the things out so let me know in the comments whether this method worked for you or not whether you're willing and interested to try it out for yourself and how does the whole principle of pressure testing apply to your life and if you're interested to see more pressure testing methods either check out the video series before and the links below and around the video and also subscribe for the next video where we're going to pressure test the fears that personally I have and hopefully will inspire you to pressure test your fears too


Good afternoon, everyone My name is Gordon LeForge. I am a senior policy analyst with the Planetary Politics Initiative here at New America As that video just suggested our next discussion is going to focus on global digital governance This is a subject that we think in about a lot here at New America and planetary politics and we've been working on a lot As Paul mentioned in his opening remarks We've just published a report entitled governing the digital future that's on our website and encourage you all to check it out This panel is titled adjust an equitable digital future and To introduce our panelists and steer us through this conversation. It is my pleasure to introduce our moderator Candace Rondo Candace is the senior director of both planetary politics and the Future Frontlines program here at New America She's also a professor of practice with the Center on the Future of War at Arizona State University And she is a leading expert on the Wagner group Candace is an award-winning For which she's been getting a lot of attention You may have seen her on TV Candace is an award-winning investigative journalist and Previously before coming into America. She held positions at the International Crisis Group the US Institute for Peace And she was Washington Post bureau chief in Kabul, Afghanistan for a stint She is and always has been a very sharp observer of how digital technologies Shape conflict sovereignty and human rights. So with that I will turn it over to Candace Thank you. Thank you Gordon for that very warm and kind of scary introduction First let me also just say madam president. Thank you again. You've really honored us by being here I hope we get a selfie before we leave. That's the most important part of my day. My mother will kill me if it doesn't happen You don't want that on I'm just so pleased to be here It's it's been a long journey for our team for Gordon for Patricia Gruver the co-author of the report that we released very recently Hila Rasul Ayub our director who works on power reimagined looks at climate change all of our panelists here today The entire team has worked so hard to get to this moment And in fact the conversation about you know global disruption is something that we've been having for a long time But really started for for me for Anne-Marie During the pandemic and when we were stuck at home Not much to do other than panic And this is the idea that we came up with is that we need to have this conversation that they have to be The conversations that we were having about global security today have to be much more inclusive We have to ask very hard questions And challenge the kind of status quo as madam president just did You know the last decade and in the last few days, let's just talk about the last few days We have seen a Major war the beginnings of a major war unfold on our cell phones on tablets on laptops And it's the second time around in the last 18 months that we've seen massive conflict unfold on digital devices 12 years ago we were talking about web 2.0 and We were worried about our kids and family members getting sucked into Facebook now We're worried about the singularity and what will happen with artificial intelligence How how will it reshape? human communities and human society And these are the questions that we've been grappling with over the last little while through our digital futures task force And a gathering of individuals which includes of course Alejandro and several others Who've been really asking hard questions about the way? Digital technology is changing our idea of sovereignty In a world where we used to think about it as you know territory and boundaries and lines on maps You can't do that in the virtual world and it's scrambling the way we think about norms and rights And power most importantly, and so that's what we're going to talk about today. Let me introduce our panelists Alejandro Pesante is not only one of my favorites. Don't get jealous guys He's also one of the shining lights of our digital futures task force He is the director general for academic computing services of the National University of Mexico in Mexico City He served the the community as a member of the ICANN board Of directors. Those are the people that name domains and keep registry information He's educated in in Mexico and Alejandro does not play. Let me tell you He knows a lot about science. He has degrees in chemistry And physical chemistry. He spent time as a research scholar at the prestigious Max Planck Institute for Research on On the solid state in Stuttgart, Germany. It's one of my favorite countries and Stuttgart is one of my favorite cities His career has been bound up with computing since 1972.  I'm not really sure I really should be sitting on this stage Nanjira is a four-global fellow She is also a board member of the new humanitarian development gateway and digital impact alliance She also advises Carnegie Council's AI and equality initiative and the Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms She's a member of the gender advisory board at the UN Commission on science and technology for Development and as if that weren't enough she also Really leads all the advocacy efforts on digital equality at the World Wide Web Foundation used to yeah, well you used to And she's worked at iHUB Nairobi Where she provided strategic guidance for growth on technology and innovation research in the East Africa region? Thank you for coming my god. What a biography, okay? Our third panelist Ro Hinton Madura is no less distinguished and he soon will be my favorite Ro Hinton is a distinguished fellow and former president of the Center for International Governance and Innovation CG if you guys don't know it you should Everyone apparently loves having Ro Hinton on the board because he is the chair of a lot of boards He's a chair of the board on the Institute for new economic thinking vice chair at the McLuhan Foundation Board member of the partnership for economic policy and he is on the advisory boards of the WTO WTO chairs Program UN merit and Global Health Center. He is also a professor of practice at McGill University University's Institute for study and international development Ro Hinton also sits on a commission on global economic transformation He knows the most famous guy in the world on soft power Joseph Stieglitz and many many many other things Welcome all three of you. Thank you for joining us so We were touching on this sort of challenge that we have now with the way digital technologies in particularly AI are really transforming Everything from conflict to sort of crisis management, and there are some good things too. Let's talk about you know MN RA I mean without without artificial intelligence. We would not have had a pandemic I think relief Ultimately, but there's been a lot of inaction on regulating digital technologies Which have let platform companies like Metta, you know and others do a lot of damage In communities that are particularly vulnerable. We can think of the crisis with the Rohingya genocide. We can think of many different instances Given that history in the background, I'm gonna turn to you Alejandro first because you are my favorite Really Where are we gonna go next? I mean we've got inaction a history of inaction, but Any chance of that shifting for AI. Do we see any kind of activism happening? Okay I'm very happy to last to thank Candace and all Gordon affords Patricia gruber Riley Rogers for All for the insane this invitation. I take it especially As a big honor because you already know me So that's you already saw me in action in the same room for the for the task force and that was a fantastic experience Which I thank you for I'm also in awe of the convening power of Of this organization for many years. I visited over here more than a decade ago And I'm very glad to tell you there's someone in this room who really knows this stuff That's Dr. Steve Crocker who's sitting down there. He's former chair of I can he's among what many other merits the person who invented the request for for comments procedure for standardizing the internet in the internet and generic task force and Many many other towering achievements and still very very active in these fields And there's David olive from who's the icon office and idea Puyoza comes from a DFR project I mean, this is for me as an additional sign of convening power and I'm very honored to be sitting on the same days that madam Johnson sir leave was I'm aware of your work in Liberia since it was happening and I mean from the news and In absolute awe of Those achievements and what you're now charged with that may shape the digital world as well in many ways Now that I have that out of my chest of my chest So there is action and inaction it's not only inaction What we have to realize I think I've got straight to this Today's panic will be tomorrow's platform A Few centuries ago Plato was scared Very disgusted that people were resorting to writing and he thought that would damage the use of memory forever We have had the same type of concern when Radio was going to intrude into our kitchens with voices from outside the house whether it was going to be you know good music and the constructive education or Propaganda no one knew at the time and of course both things happened and it's all the way You know every new media the thing is that maybe these disruptions were change happening once every Millennium then once every half millennium and now we have 20 of them a year So we are always chasing the past we're fighting the last war What I think that's happening more important Now is that we are we have to realize that the platforms the panic the changes Web 2.0 artificial intelligence, what have you are? shedding light on What humans actually do to each? Individually or through institutions or through organizations organizations that maybe you know virtues like the Wikipedia or Evil like terrorist groups or criminal gangs the whole criminal ecosystem Cyber criminal ecosystem is an exact map of the classic physical Ecosystem it goes by segmentation need to know basis cells hiding information hiding identity It's very amplified by the internet as we have talked sometime I see six factors to map these things from what we know on offline to what happens online The first of them is of course a hyperscale of the internet the speed with which things can happen You know this flare ups can happen in a few hours that will take a couple of years 50 years ago We have the question of identity which the internet doesn't really give you any identity except your IP address Which is very fickle and people can hide behind the internet for crime or they can hide behind the internet for whistle Blowing and for starting a rebellion against an oppressor team. So these are Two blade two sided knives, then we have the cross the global reach of the internet Which means we are always crossing jurisdictional borders which may can maybe for the rules to take the spread Sexual health education to young women in religious oppressive regimes and there are many religions that are like that at least locally or to organize crime and We have lowering of barriers to start things to start organizations companies NGOs or criminal gangs we have a friction reduction Things happen very fast with a click-off a button and sometimes we have to manage against that speed so that you won't transfer your whole heritage to someone who tells you that he is the here of general Taylor from Liberia who holds, you know tons of gold and For a modicum of $50,000 he'll transfer everything to you And that what that was the first news people have about Taylor Outside the people who read the news is amazing and the final one is a huge Drove of memory. So now what we have for AI is we have to look at it in this same way. What is it doing? Who is doing what and then see how it's changed by the technology dissects and then reassemble But then you know what remedies will have to be for people laws will not work about technology loss the object of the law is behavior People or collectivities or governments, but the law will not fix Still it will fix using twisted steel to open locks outside your house Behavior, it's all I mean, you know policy that focuses on behavior is rare Lately, but Nanjir, I know you have something to say about this But let me add an additional kind of nuance to the question, which is you know We have seen a lot of big names in artificial intelligence come out some of the people you know But the conversation is pretty limited right now in terms of like who's at the table What what's your take on that? Yeah, I agree. It's not that there's been in action So much as the kinds of action we need from power holders are insufficient in the sense that with Technology especially in the last two decades the harms whether it's from the era of Facebook and other social media Sort of the rate of diffusion of technology has become faster The warning signs have almost always come from the developing world So the adverse uses we started to see From Myanmar right off the bat in 2013 when you know these platforms started to sort of proliferate across societies Those were ignored My favorite an example here is usually Cambridge Analytica and how it's spoken about here in the US But before they cut that they got here They cut their teeth in operations in Kenya in Nigeria in South Africa and elsewhere as those warnings were being Sent out they weren't being heard. So there's also a lot about where You know sites that are centered for crisis for these issues to be taken seriously And it's the same thing we're seeing with artificial intelligence now The language around safety the language around the moratorium and other calls for action Center very specific viewpoints and not everybody's so for one, there's an interesting sense of creating fear And this fear is also obfuscating the need for governance and in this sense the need for state actors to set the rules of the road That these powerful players can then heed to so they want to create a panic and then tell us tell us that they're the ones We know how best to govern themselves. You all just don't worry with you. You just stay panicked We're gonna figure this thing out on the back end here and we'll come back to you with more technology Rather than fixing the impulses that are driving whether it's AI being deployed prematurely Without the right requisite, you know measures and continuing adverse practices like relying on Underpaid labor to train the models that then we're all experimenting with so it really is in a sense is Technologies have shown us to build on Alejandra's point It's a they've been a mirror and we're not liking what we are seeing in the mirror And we're running off panicking rather than looking deeply and staring deeply into what is being reflected for us to fix So that remains a challenge whether we're talking about those days of Facebook or now artificial general intelligence as Our friends in San Francisco want us to frame the conversation our friends in San Francisco So powerful Ro Hinton What's your take? So first, thank you for having me as your least-favoured panel And and and I'd make I guess two points on on so if AI concentration and action and enact the first is that I Like to think of AI is having broadly three streams of impact One is on the suff nexus of issues around security human rights privacy surveillance the second is on Economy and jobs and and what it does to labor markets and then the third is the most of science fiction like Singularity what what happens when AI outputs us all and if you think of action and inaction, I'd say there's been some Not enough and I'll come to that in a second action on that first sense. I mean we all understand the security and so on dimensions as you all pointed out But values are different on the second stream Jobs and so on. I think there's been almost no action. I mean we talk about taxing robots So that governments can produce or fund public goods for the citizens or not there And we're there's nothing that I have seen that suggests that we're going to deal with that anytime soon And then on singularity. I mean there's no I mean we have Evidence from biotech and and other kinds of advanced science is that there are ways for societies to grapple With nuclear technology, but we haven't really come anywhere near that There's a debate about whether you can cut off computing power, but it's still at that stage my second point Where there has been action think of the range that we're seeing The draft EU legislation on AI is risk-based my country's Canada's is to China's is kind of based on technologies and what these countries do is they talk about low risk and high risk AI and In the EU legislation for example high-risk AI is something like social scoring or the use of facial recognition technology in public places Is banned. It's just not good In China That is exactly what AI is used for in the public good I mean there's a genuine sense there that some of this like going through airports or Dealing with COVID this technology has worked and we are going to use facial recognition technology in public How do you square those? So I guess I'm saying there has been action at the national and sometimes regional level Globally, and I know you'll come to that Making these different perspectives talk to each other in a way that we have a global chapeau Which I thought your report did quite well given how impossible the situation is Where some ways from it? Yeah So let me I'm really a big fan of going off script and my team knows this very well But I want to unpack something that you just mentioned Ro Hinton It's something that we've been kind of debating and talking about a little bit is that the impacts of artificial intelligence on the workforce Two things happened over the summer right we saw the Screen Actors Guild and the Writers Guild go on strike because really a The technology of streaming right on the internet yet another technological, you know kind of defining moment Has totally reshaped the industry beyond recognition Now people receive pennies sometimes, you know, they get like a check for 20 cents on their residuals, right? This was the big Conundrum for the the Screen Actors Guild and also for the Writers Guild But there's also the additional piece of artificial intelligence, right? You know the use of artificial intelligence for voiceover for creating characters, right? even writing scripts and a parallel here is the UAW Right now on strike biggest, you know union at least one of the most powerful in the country and What are they asking about they're asking about two things one You are stripping down the machine that we've been building for, you know, a couple centuries now Into parts that essentially will take away jobs will eliminate jobs from the from the line But two you're also using artificial intelligence. You're creating potentially barriers for us to Get skilled up and one of my big bugbears when I hear here in Washington on the hill We can just you know artificial intelligence can be fine.  Let's talk a little bit about the workforce impact of AI Not just in the United States. I really like globally What can we expect to see from that and I'm gonna go to Nanjira and then you were hinted in and Alejandro I think it's it's going to be a mixed bag And if I may focus on how we're seeing it at least with the conversations on the future of work or the present of work in Africa Before we even talk about the artificial intelligence side of it. It is just workforce precarity exists as it were Younger and younger populations that are not easily absorbed into the economies as they are structured What do you do with that workforce? And then they're also the source of cheap labor to power the data labeling and the sort of the concept of data Genitorialism has come up because they're being this work is being outsourced to the Kenyans and other space in Morocco and elsewhere to train Chad you PT and other models on this is an image of a human and this is not And then you know at the end of the day, you can't even see yourself represented in the outcome there's a story just this week about Generative AI refusing to generate an image of a black an African doctor With patience it just could not it could not consider an African doctor It could only consider a doctor to be a white person and then at some point when probed further It decided it preferred to show a giraffe with children rather than an African doctor with children So you've worked on this end to train these models and then they're not even seeing you they're not representative of you There's there's that aspect of just the long chain of injustice there that could is is unfolding There is the question about Creativity and West killing comes in because a lot of what people are starting to consensus is starting to generate is that on Technical jobs just everyday paper punching pushing there could be ways where artificial intelligence does better quoting quote But that's a question of where those people will be Taking those who have those jobs So I think the fact that that's a conversation and a concern around the world Means that for the first time in a long time we'll have to go back to the books on what labor and worker rights have been all these things We've written through ILO international labor organization and other spheres. What will that mean and that will call for planetary Solidarity because the worker who's precariously suffering at UAW and the construction worker Down on the in the continent who's trying to get you know that's to sustain them as a living But you know, I don't know development money brings you a robot to build your infrastructure there There's a cut. There's something there that ties them in that future The fear that we don't know where people are going to have sustainable jobs at least allows us not to see it as old AI Domerism but to start speaking about what will solidarity look like in saying whether it's re-skilling of workers or whether it's Ensuring that the pace at which these technologies are introduced does not upset systems Makes us at least have room for a new conversation I mean Ro Hinton does that scare you because it scares me because I you know when you think about the folks here in charge of regulation Right people that you've dealt with you continue to deal with are they ready for what was just described here You know since the industrial revolution the stuff the path to prosperity and development has been to move from agriculture to low-end manufacturers and Then up that value chain. That's how Britain Germany and France did it. That's how the Tigers in East Asia did it And that's how the current you know, that's how Vietnam sees its future in Burma Now think about that suppose you're Kazakhstan or Ethiopia or Tunisia where you haven't even reached that middle stage and more and more of the Tasks are being automated at the low end Some of us think about 40% of them have so that entry level and that middle level step that you need to become Something else just isn't going to be available. It's already not been available now We're not supposed to bring Slides and and I I'm not a PowerPoint fan But there's there's one I like to show which is the photo of I think it's Nike That reopened its first plant in Europe some years ago after moving all this operations to Asia over the years and It's the photo of the shop floor and all it is is robots. I mean so you can you know, you can Reshore and all of that but it's just not going to be like it used to be So the employment absorption and then the question becomes as you were saying well Are we going to revisit the labor leisure trade-off? Will jobs look different? Will we work less? all of the above in Countries that have the social systems and the humanities to Not just retrain people technically but to actually have people think about digital literacy And and what it means to think in a different era But there's a lot large part of the world one-fifth of the world Does not have meaningful or any? Privacy or data legislation So the soft infrastructure you need to deal with all of this change just isn't there And so I think this worries me a lot And I don't think it's enough to assume a way that I mean I have great sympathy for the strike in Hollywood But that's that's just a microcosm of what others are going to face And I don't think as some of my economist colleagues do one can assume this away by saying all of this wealth Can be created if we can simply redistribute it we will all be doing other funkier things I think we have to have that conversation in a more granular way, and and it will happen But it's not happening quite yet other funkier things thoughts well so I put this I mean I agree we have a huge problem, and I think that Putting a few drops of skepticism on some of the grand statements can help us Reanalyze these things without denying the seriousness of the problem actually may it may even underline how bad it is So are you two very simple guidelines one of them? About 30 years ago Peter Cowhing who was a professor at UCSD and Jonathan Aronson in I think UCLA did a lot of very good work on Trends in technology and its governance and one thing that they remarked many others in in technology actually know this My heart is what happens is there's a huge trying to miniaturization and modularization And that's been a long long term and that's what for Hinton was already mentioned You know is you know first you replace humans with machines and machines became bigger And then at some point machines like and I mean steel mills Broke down and you had smaller steel mills substituting for them And you could now place them in more more countries and so forth so that that's a trend that's It's made by humans humans have decision power over it But so far it has worked more like tectonic plates It's all the humans have been in the position to make a decision. They've made decisions that go in this way We didn't see in Hollywood Camera camera persons strike a camera operators or photographers strike against Apple when they introduced a smartphone Yet it was and it may have taken a lot of camera jobs away, but it also produced a Huge world of short films of films made with a single camera on a small tripod remotely controls from from from a laptop or With with another similar camera These are trends that suddenly are hitting and this I will say this tongue-in-cheek because we are that Hitting the manifesto writing class So our manifestos are now going to be written by artificial intelligence And they are going to be read by an artificial intelligence my favorite take on this whole LLM Revolution chat GPT these guys in in one room saying I have script that I tell them one word and It writes a beautiful Email and the guys in the other room are saying I have a script that gets this huge worthy email And tells me in one word what it means and that's you know again It's illuminating it's throwing light on how we are doing how we're working writing blurbs for for ads It's a huge waste of intelligence in the sense that you can have 99% of the words in the blurb written by a machine So what's the genius there maybe just distilling it into one picture now? so The other guideline for me and it comes together is the cost of not doing and this goes especially for country developing countries developing economies We have legislators feverishly writing laws against or for regulating Artificial intelligence in in the Mexican legislature alone There are already 16 13 initiatives for cybersecurity and this semester. We are seeing already 15 or so for artificial intelligence Why aren't these legislators why weren't where were these legislators when they could have a lot of 5% instead of 0.1% of the national budget for education and research We are paying the cost of not having done The job that we should have done or that our people in government should have done 20 or 50 years ago to level the playing field We have very smart people from every developing country doing fantastic work in artificial intelligence in Google in Meta or In Alibaba Yeah Not in country So that's actually so you bring me to the next question, which is on scripts But related to this of course, you know, we've Ian Bremmer wrote this fantastic piece in foreign affairs. I guess it was last year Talking about sort of our techno polar moment moment And I think we can all sort of acknowledge that you know Meta and Alibaba You know alphabet these these are not countries. There's no corporations These are becoming empires and that own whole parts of the virtual world, but also whole parts of the earth and With that high over concentration of power we see challenges with data access Control, you know bringing value from your own data in Nigeria you were just sort of referring to that We've talked a little bit in in our digital futures task force about How to break through the challenge of the global south in particular? Gaining more control over data access for fending against internet shutdowns any answers one any answers in the form of an institutional or coalition building Response beyond just sort of like oh, I think it would be better if it was a good What can we do? Institutionally or in some sort of coalition format to sort of respond to This inequality of data access and data control I'll let anybody jump in On the inequality of data access and control there's two ways I like to think of it. There's this moment now where These models are learning faster what they can learn based on a very limited archive of which they're being trained So there's a quest to get more data so diversify the data sets So there are to get more languages more contexts more realities that haven't been included is happening But in so doing it's a very extractive model that's starting to emerge That isn't so much trying to work within the context and actually Register those dividends as distributed equally then it's almost like let's extract them You know get them to this center and then maybe some trickle down aspects will happen So for example with trying to get more languages to train charge you PT and others You know in the endangered languages an interesting one because you can have these tools help Redistribute that redistribute them in the archive of maintain an archive of them to be learned But there are communities now pushing back and saying those benefits first have to come to us before they go out of their chat GPT open AI somebody makes all the profits a new script on a storyline That's a lived reality and and and bring it back So there are these interesting conversations about how do you go from the least? Connected to the overly connected. What's the through past there in distributing? equitable gains from These technologies rather than waiting for this increasingly an accountable force that is the private companies that are running this across the board to maybe distribute back through philanthropy or through social enterprises or Corporate social responsibility and even where governments are not the one stepping in which is the case in most places that People power this questioning power is a really interesting impulse that for me is less about the big question has been do we start reforming institutions that are or build new ones and in between that before that happens It's where will people be represented either way because we tend to ossify things through institutions, right? But there's the dynamism of who's needing to be represented there that may not be represented in these institutions Whether we start afresh or whether we reform Quickly, so there's the thinking of how to govern in agile ways that needs to pair up with the conversation about What are these institutions that are representative planks for us to have global tables so to speak? But the world isn't waiting for that, you know people are actually seeking, you know Justice and equity now not in the lifetimes to come in Africa. We used to be told we the young people are the future I've done being young. I'm still not the future, right? So the next generation is watching that there's an urgency I like to say there's too many people living in the age where the cans that were kicked on the road are right here So they're not waiting for us to have the need conversation that is ordered about UN reform It's about right now. We are speaking. We are saying this is how we're organizing This is how we are trying to find ourselves represented How can they be supported is just as important a conversation than as the reform one of these institutions So I mean, here's the irony you mentioned data inequities and so on but Way more people live in developing countries than in developed countries Data is set to be the new oil. It's the raw material and people think of it as a fifth factor of production now It's a raw material for all of these things AI and and digitization that you're talking about So if the assets and the raw materials are where they are There's ways to conceive of that institutional response. I think if Companies are using data that's generated in the global south then a Small step forward a very small but at least it's a step forward is the tax treaty that we've seen the G20 and OECD broker in which Big digital platforms have to pay a minimum tax and cannot finagle legally finagle their accounts to pay taxes in low-tax Jurisdictions, that's a good start At CG where we're which I used to lead as you mentioned We we did a lot of work on what are called data trusts. Okay, just as you Put your savings dollars in mutual fund X and not Y because you like its Portfolio and its rate of return Think about all the data that we generate and that belongs to us as individuals You could think of data trusts as being national or sectoral as Nanjir and I who sat on a Lancet Commission on global health Proposed, but there are ways to deposit data for uses that you want and then the monetized or Non-pecuniary benefits from data trusts go to the shareholders the people who contributed their data So there's ways of thinking of this and the final point I'd make is you know just as after the financial crisis in 2007 and 8 we recognize that the Troika of the World Bank IMF and WTO was not up to the task of dealing with financial sector instability That was just not something that could have been conceived of in 1944 We created the financial stability board, which is a multi-stakeholder Group that hasn't made financial systems perfect, but it's many steps in the right direction and again at CG We've proposed something called the digital stability board as an overarching multi-stakeholder I mean, that's one thing we have to get away from national governments only Inclusivity cannot just mean having more and more small countries. We have to think about science ethicists consumer groups industry indeed coming together in an institution where best practices exchanged where there is adjudication of disputes and some of these iniquity issues can actually be dealt with through that as well So, you know, we're far from it and as Nanjira said it may not happen as fast as some of us would like while we're still young but That's where the future lies Alejandro, I see you writing a novel over here. What's happening? I'm taking careful notes because they give me anchors for What you know to build upon what has been said? It's it's almost as You know, what you have just said is the paragraph I would like to have quoted before what I'm going to say now. So it's fantastic So quoting the the previous speakers We have First I've heard in many foreign among others the global partnership for AI and initiative led by Dr. Paul to me which is called the GID which is a very interesting initiative to look at Legislative and other solutions for data control for individuals regaining data control The the idea of data commons or data trusts has come up I still have a lot of questions about how they could actually be built and governed They would have to form a sort of labor union of our consumer union and then you have all the Questions about how to build that representation keep it away from capture incorporate or governmental Capture and so forth. That's an idea that's floating around at any rate. I think that we have Good precedent to look at in the almost 30 years that internet governance has been a field or a thing What we have been able to build in the internet governance field is Organizations institutions and mechanisms the governance is not always know about written rules That manage these shared resources I can is one example. That's one of the most formalized. It has a dispute resolution procedure that's very Detailed and it has a lot of chances for redress of wrongs and so forth It's fully multi stakeholder. It really brings together Governments actually one of the curious things that bothers some people in in in I can is that the governments sit in an advisory Row, they have an advisory a government advisory committee. It has special powers It can stop things almost totally cold on the tracks But it's an advisory committee Just as an anecdote to tell you how this came to happen at reform that we made in ICANN in 2003 We offered the government representatives to study a change in the structure where the government advisory committee would actually sit five directors by election In the board of directors of the corporation or three It took them about 30 minutes to reject the offer Because they said first we would become liable for any Litigation that this organization goes into and whether government representatives cannot be part of a litigation in private Even if non-profit Organization and the second one was some of them said in very low voice There's no way we could agree get 240 governments to agree on five representatives even if it were regional So this has been a very healthy structure and what we see is other multi stakeholder Organizations working in the Internet governance field ICANN is very formalized. It has a large budget It has formal meetings three times a year in different countries and it has as I said all these teeth for things that go wrong with The central part of the domain name system everything else is decent realize You have something called the anti-fishing working group, which is a very lightweight organization It's mostly meetings and communications led by a guy called Peter Cassidy who's a former FBI accountant kind of person The it brings together police forces law enforcement It brings together the banks where the assets are that and now of course are many other non-financial assets like you know Your Netflix account so everybody that sort of puts together or has to hold a fence against fishing And the platforms where fishing occurs, which is like the large email providers large messaging providers That's where the exchanges take place which actually pull out people's resources It's a very light organization and it's done a lot of work that we don't see you the way We see that we don't see it is the huge decrease in fishing attempts You can get through email for example and the way you can make them decrease now in other messaging platforms We you can see that kind of stuff working in many ways and I would not advise to just copy any of these organizations But to learn the lessons from multi-stakeholder Organizations or mechanisms in the internet field and of course look at the many others like the financial stability board There's a lot of multi-stakeholder Even if it's not called so explicitly in sports governance in finance governance sometimes inside countries sometimes globally And that would be a good feels to bring in the learning into this other question. Yeah, I mean it's interesting Go ahead. Yeah, I was gonna say I mean but on where we are thinking about new global planetary Institutions whether they borrow from the multi-stakeholder model multilateral model Otherwise one big thing that is emerging that is clear is it's something that has to get especially the big powers on The same table so you need the US and China as super producers on the same table What's happening all too often is there are new formations that are emerging that will almost always sideline one or the other So you're finding maybe the Chinese Chinese group is organizing different stakeholders the US group is organizing others There's an interesting divide around digital authoritarianism digital democracies, which are terminologies that don't fit neatly anyway That is not going to help us with where we need to be headed because at the end of the day both powers in the quest to Participate in geopolitical competition including in technology are rushing for that data so if they come to a source that says the continent and We have a saying you know when two bulls fight it is the grass that suffers When your data is still being extracted because they're contending you know Powers and you're trying to get the resources to develop from either side without you know getting caught up You bet I think a policy maker is going to spend a lot more time fighting these you know little Tensions rather than actually pulling resources to work for them So that's a reality we must not lose sight of and especially here in DC that whatever would be proposed as international Absolutely has to get the other powers that are creating these technologies in the same room to find some rules of the road Yeah, I'm so glad you raised this. I mean at the risk of offending most of Washington DC and most of the White House Just down the street over here I will say I am extremely pleased to see the fading away of That initiative whereby You know there was this sort of we are the authoritarian versus the yeah the great democracies because obviously we know We're all in trouble right. I mean democracy is in trouble everywhere authoritarianism is everywhere And it doesn't neatly sort of you know sit within side any particular set of borders as it turns out We're all struggling with these challenges And they're they're difficult I think to grapple with if we do have this kind of very binary approach I think we are at a point where Questions from the audience would be very welcome and I want to invite you to come up here and Make yourself known lots of good questions to I'm sure ask While I do while I wait for somebody to step up to the mic I'm going to just take the prerogative and ask a very quick question. We touch on data sovereignty in our conversations in May and I think that mr. Drucker is going to address some of this I just want to touch on a little bit on the data sovereignty question We've seen China make bids in the ITU Russia make a bid to the ITU I'll let you answer it and then we'll get to these questions Right data sovereignty Do what kind of stakeholder? Format would we need To really address many of the questions that are coming up there. Yeah, I mean I think there are more questions We have to ask on what we mean by data sovereignty and whether we are resorting back to sort of jurisdiction also of renty Where your national government through data protection or privacy laws Necessitates a certain data does not migrate from You know so civil data, for example is not transferred either through servers or extracted by companies Is that the form of data sovereignty? We're speaking of is it individual sovereignty and how does that fit in a world where? Rights are not just about individuals but about communities, which is essentially what the African, you know Human and people's rights chatter talks about it tries to balance the fact that you're an individual within a community And that's a kind of corpus We haven't tapped into in finding other solutions too much of the focus on individual rights The way the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has shown us has limited us from thinking about other other ways to do it So a lot of focus from Europe and elsewhere is about protecting an individual an individual protecting their data But am I going to protect it from China the US my government, you know The companies how much is one individual capable of doing and are we selling ourselves short by still having a legal? Precedent that is being set through that model when we're talking about a concept as tenuous as data sovereignty Some might argue we don't even have the sovereignty of that data anyway It's crossing all over the internet and the cables and all that jazz But I think it's a term that's being thrown around a lot without really contextualizing what that means without also creating what would be a protectionist Dimension and I think in others are also calling for cross-border data flows with trust Which just says there could be a version of it that doesn't have trust Which tells a lot about the fact that we just need to sit more with that question and hear perspectives from different regions On what people are thinking and collectives. So I think there's work there to be done Always with this quick answer. I like it. All right questions from the audience sir Steve Crocker I'm gonna make an old guys comment that'll make Alejandro look like a youngster Fifty years ago and a little bit more. I had a job at DARPA writing the checks to support the artificial intelligence research program And so and and the challenge at the time as a youngster then was how do I write the justification for the work? we're doing because Typically DARPA programs in those days were five-year programs and I knew for sure that we were in for a 50 year Process of trying to build AI so I look at the current controversies about AI today, and I say Yeah, this is great. We got there finally, but As you commented We're gonna go a little bit further We may go a whole lot further and so a lot of the commotion of the moment is really of the moment And you haven't seen anything yet in a way a Particular data point or prospective data point. I was talking to Raj Reddy last year about the Progress in speech understanding. So this relates to both in a positive and negative way about Preservation of languages and so forth and asked what his prediction was about the ability to have real-time translation In language so that we could each speak in our own native languages and be understood in a quality He said he had put himself on record a year earlier So it's two years ago that in the ten years eight years from now 100 languages facile real-time translation Maybe it'll happen in eight years. Maybe it'll take a little longer, but but and it was an informed I can tell you if you don't know who Raj Reddy is a very very well-informed opinion Let me set that aside and bring in a different aspect a lot of attention to the displacement of jobs and Increase in inequity in wealth and control I'm not an economist. So I'm going to make amateur comments here Wealth is roughly in my limited perspective Divided up into what are your skill sets in terms of individual labor? What assets do you control and? Related but slightly different what? Facilities organizations and so forth what your power structure is and we're seeing shifts in all of this and But if you stand back and look at I said well, what's the wealth of a nation and one could imagine now moving into sort of Semi-science fiction territory that if instead of valuing what a person can do to create income for himself or herself what a country or a people can do to create the means of support and Prevention of disease and all sorts of things as a community then You have different ways of approaching how you distribute the benefits of that wealth and that leads to political Issues of do you have capitalism or do you have socialism at such and I don't want to take a position on which of those Needs to be the best. I suspect that there's no perfect answer in any extreme is is wrong so but my putting that together with my other point is that things are changing and And here's the devilish problem things are changing at different rates Westphalian order of things Preserved and created a lot of order in the world in a sense And also hardened the interactions so that it made nation states the primary way of organizing things around the globe now we're in a state where a Situation where problems are be setting the planet that aren't simply Every every country should do for itself. What's best there's common things and our institutions aren't naturally set up to create the kind of Cooperation and common action that's needed and meanwhile we have in the technology We have very rapid changes in computing and AI now and so forth Things are changing at very different rates here. And so that to me is the big challenge and we can have local Focused solutions on how do we can apply AI how we could regulate AI for facial recognition or surveillance disorder? not unimportant but from a slightly broader perspective almost a Passing challenge that will be overtaken by the things pardon for the long. It's okay. And there's a question in there somewhere Okay, I'm sure there's a question in there And I know that there's a question behind you and we've got about three minutes So what we're going to do is take the two questions and we're going to make you do Kind of like quiz show style you get 30 seconds to answer them go All right, so we have a question from the online audience What do the panelists think of the problem of junk data the idea that AI will flood the internet with generated low-value Content which makes it harder to find useful and original information Is there a future where only the relatively rich can afford quality data? Oh, that's a good question junk data. Okay. Hello, I was a sticky from United Nations University And so AI is a tool and it's up to us to decide how to wield it So it leads to benefits, but it also leads to consequences that need to be mitigated So two questions on that firstly when it comes to the development of AI How can we develop effective public-private partnerships to ensure that the development is in alignment with the values of the international system? For instance respecting human rights and the second question which is something that you actually mentioned Andrea Which was talking about the need for agile governance and the question of do we stick to existing institutions or create new institutions? So any ideas on how we can make these institutions more agile given that you know They're 20th century institutions dealing with 21st century challenges. Thank you great question I'm going to summarize as best I can So we can get 30 seconds out of you each So I think what I heard was one For mr. Drucker things are moving fast We're not skating to the puck basically how do we skate to the puck that's number one number two Is it only the rich people out here who are going to be able to open their email and feel okay about it? Or is it good? Is it going to be all the rest of us? You know, are we going to keep getting you know junk data junk email junk junk junk? What's the solution there and last but not least I'm just going to go to the agility part because actually I think that's undervalued and not talked about enough How do we make our response in our institutions more agile? When it comes to looking at the artificial intelligence challenge you have exactly 30 seconds go I Think that I was just one part of this which is the question about whether old or new institutions I think that it will be Solved it will be answered by first answering what problems plural We can try to solve We may be leaving some problems unsolved in the world. That's the history of humankind But define a problem that brings together a group of stakeholders. You asked about private public private partnerships That's exactly what multi-stakeholder means Find the problem find who are the interested parties? And if there are harmed parties find a way to bring the harming parties to the table Just a third the five seconds thanks to the interpreters the sign language interpreters We've made your afternoon Very physical indeed. They are fierce Yeah, I think the junk data point broader speaks to divides and I think we're first approaching a new kind of divide where There'll be those of us majority who are connected and those who are disconnected are either those who were never connected or those who can pay their way out So because the vast majority of us are being shepherded into this space where even opening an app that Previously is to give you information you have to sift through all that the junk I was rightfully mentioned to find one gem of insight but there are people who are able to afford to pay their way out of these systems for some It's important to remember that there's also a form of coercion to use this tools where we rely on them every lands has been generated and then Cory doctor calls it and certification of these apps where you're first it gives you a service It's a valuable service and then it flips it on you and then keeps you locked in and you don't know how to find your way out Easily, so they are these divides and they're going to keep shifting We have to keep an eye out for that and figure out some rules before it's too late for everybody not to name names But I feel that way about Gmail go I Think DARPA and your space program are shining examples of how public investments Generate both public and private wealth and so if we think about technology as being created Not by free markets, but by public action Then the intellectual property that's created by technology should be seen More of a pub as more of a public good than we currently do our currents of IP regimes and trips and so on Take us in the wrong direction and so many of the points you made lead me to think that taxing the profits of The rents that accrue from technology so that governments can provide their citizens the things that they're meant to provide is the future of public policy and On the middle point, you know think of a continuum from data to information to knowledge to wisdom and I don't think there's any algorithm yet that gets us as clean lead to that as the human brain But where the money will be and where the action will be is to sift through the noise and the data and information To knowledge and wisdom and that's what we should be again directing public action at Rohington you are now my favorite. Thank you so much for that Let's give the audit the panelists a hand here


We get significant resources from the state and federal government for affordable housing. Having local resources, however, helps us do more with that money. It helps us access more of those dollars because we can move quickly when opportunities arise. It has been a very important part of the reason why Burlington has been able to create so much permanently affordable housing over the last 20 years. Up until now, there has been sort of an informal division within the property taxes that we collect that basically a half of a penny was set aside for the Housing Trust Fund. That has never been mandated until now. What this charter change will do is say going forward there will be a full penny, which amounts to about $400,000 a year, that will be collected by the city and put into this Housing Trust Fund to use to create and retain permanently affordable housing. Can you just give us a quick example of what this Housing Trust Fund is used for? Yeah, I can. Here's one of my favorite ones, and people may remember a few years ago, the Farrington family decided to sell the mobile home park that they had owned for many years. There was a lot of concern when they put that on the market that that might be bought up by investors and displacing the owners of mobile homes that were on the site. The city was able to move quickly with these flexible dollars to support the residents as they really took control of their future, put in place an agreement where they actually purchased the park from the Farrington's. The city's money was a tiny amount of the overall purchase. They did the heavy lifting and the hard work, but the fact that we had some flexible resources that were available immediately played a key role in them being successful at that and being able to put agreement in place quickly that has really allowed them to take control of their future. And now, if people have been through there recently, they're really doing a lot to upgrade that property.


Item number, SCP-136. Object Class, Euclid. Special Containment Procedures. No extraordinary containment procedures are necessary. SCP-136 is to be kept in a standard 10 meter by 10 meter by 10 meter concrete containment room. SCP-136-1 is to be kept in a locked transparent plastic case, measuring 0.5 meters by 0.5 meters by 0.5 meters, placed on a table in the center of the room. Video surveillance is unnecessary when SCP-136 is not being actively examined. As of Incident I-136-C, only Class D personnel may enter the SCP-136 containment chamber more than once in any 30-day period, without special authorization from Director... Description. SCP-136 has no effect on non-humans. SCP-136 describes two phenomena. SCP-136-1 is a variable appearance, but generally manifests as a crude clay, wood, metal, or cloth doll, usually identifiable as female, and usually between 10 and 30 centimeters in length. The doll appears as male and approximately 10% of viewings. SCP-136-1 has no unusual properties that can be measured empirically. Mass spectrometry of samples taken from the doll return typical results for its present material. When the doll is damaged to the extent where it no longer appears human, usually upon removal of the head or all limbs, it vanishes completely and reappears in a new configuration within a one meter radius. Testing of complete vaporization pending. SCP-136-2 manifests only when SCP-136-1 is viewed for approximately 20 minutes, though like SCP-136-1 it has a somewhat variable form. The first indication of SCP-136-2's presence is a sound of laughter, of a gender corresponding to the appearance of SCP-136-1. Personnel who hear the laughter reported as sounding creepy or scary. The laughter lasts for an interval of anywhere from five seconds to two minutes, after which is a period of silence, usually of about five minutes. After the period of silence, SCP-136-2 appears, along with the abrupt disappearance of SCP-136-1. SCP-136-2 is an incorporeal nude or partially nude figure corresponding to the gender of SCP-136-1. SCP-136-2, ranging in size from 1.9 to 2.1 meters, is always posed in a provocative manner and moves through the air at a slow walking pace of 0.2 meters a second toward the subjects. If more than one subject is present, each will see the form as moving towards him or herself. As it approaches, the volume of the laughter increases. By the time SCP-136-2 is within 1 to 2 meters, the subject invariably has gone rigid in fear, collapsed, or backed up until he or she hits a wall. SCP-136-2 usually remains stiff until it is within approximately five centimeters of the subject, whereupon it will scream once before vanishing. 10 to 15 seconds later, SCP-136-1 will reappear in its previous location in a different configuration. The apparition has a very disturbing appearance. Its mouth is far too wide, frozen in a rictus of pain and arousal. It will occasionally bear its teeth or lick its lips. Its irises take up almost the entire splara of its eyes, which appear mad and bloodshot. If female, it will have an absurdly narrow waist and large breasts. The experience of viewing SCP-136-2 is profoundly upsetting, and has universally caused night terrors for up to six months in every single subject, possibly as a result of its psychic intrusion. After a viewing, most subjects are unable to leave the containment room without assistance. Interestingly, Class D personnel with a history of sexual deviancy still experience a strong negative reaction to 136-2. Additional information. SCP-136 was recovered from the children's bedroom of an abandoned house and data expunged that was reportedly haunted. A routine sweep of such reported homes by Foundation personnel discovered a SCP-136 when Agent Rodman fell from a second-story window, screaming. Incident reports. Incident I-136-A. Dr. Simon was the 25th subject to observe 136-2 and the 4th to do so voluntarily. The viewing proceeded in the usual manner with no anomalies. Approximately two hours after viewing 136-2, Dr. Simon, who was in the break room with several other researchers, screamed and dropped his coffee mug. He incoherently indicated that he could see 136-2 floating down the hall towards him. Dr. Morris and Dr. Harrison restrained him, assuming that he had simply been badly shaken by the experience. After approximately two minutes, all present in the room fell unconscious. Dr. Saboya recovered first and proceeded to awaken her colleagues. Dr. Simon had lapsed into a coma and died three days later. Dr. Myers requests reclassification to Ketter class. Reclassification as Ketter class denied. We cannot dismiss the possibility that the unfortunate incident wasn't caused by some other telepathic SCP. Incident I-136-B. It happened again today. Agent shoved a few Class Ds into the room, and he was standing outside. 136 finished doing its thing, and I was helping them drag the subjects out of the room when everything went black. I woke up to Agent-1 smacking me in the face and three Class Ds in comas. This thing is killing people. We haven't learned anything new from it in 10 years, and we can't use it. I request that we find a way to terminate 136, maybe get a psychic SCP in here with it. It's not like burning it will do anything. Dr. Myers. Request for termination denied. 136 is proving valuable for enhanced interrogation. Incident I-136-C. This is out of control now. You all saw what happened. Hell, everyone in a thousand yards will never forget data expunged, and the Class D in the room is gone, and nobody knows how. At the very least, we need to do some more rigorous screening of the Ds before sending them in. We would have found out that he was data expunged ahead of time. Thank God we figured out what set it off, though. Request reclassification to Ketter and permission for attempted termination of 136. Dr. Myers. Request denied. Dr. Myers is to be removed from administration of SCP-136. Disposition of 136 is to be given directly to Overseer-1 and Dr. R-1 for exclusive use in enhanced interrogation. Lesson complete. If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-135, Universal Carcinogen, right now. Or for the complete course, watch this playlist.


So let's see if we can go past the whole numbers and the integers and introduce a new type of number. And so this begins with the idea that when we're working in base N, we can always bundle N objects to form a single larger unit. And we can do this repeatedly. So for example, in base 3, we could take 3 objects and bundle them together. And then we can take 3 of these objects and bundle them. And then take 3 of these objects and bundle them together and so on. And as we saw when we did things like division or subtraction, it was sometimes convenient to reverse the process. So we can take a large object and break it apart into 3 smaller objects. And we can take each of these smaller objects and break them apart into 3 even smaller objects. And we can take these smaller objects and break it apart into 3 even smaller objects. And then if we do that one more time, we'll get back to our single unit. And at this point, the question that we might ask is, why couldn't we continue this process? And there's no reason why we couldn't. So let's suppose we begin with our smallest whole number unit. Now, rather than worrying about base N and only breaking this into N smaller pieces, let's suppose I just break it into however many pieces I feel like breaking it into. So I can break it into N pieces and each one of these is going to be some smaller unit. And because we've fragmented the unit, we'll call each of these pieces a unit fraction. And the name of that unit is going to correspond to how many pieces we've broken the unit into. Well, again, remember arithmetic is bookkeeping. If you remember this, then there is no difference between the arithmetic of the fractions and the arithmetic of the whole numbers. Here, because I've broken the unit into four parts, each part is going to be a fourth. And we want to be able to specify how many of which units. So let's say I take this set here. And so here I have three. There's our how many of the things we call fourths. And those are our unit. So we would call this amount three fourths. And we're going to write it in this form where we have the fractional form of our amount. And again, the important thing to remember is arithmetic is bookkeeping. And this fractional form tells us how many of which units. And in particular, the numerator numbers. It tells us how many. In this case, the numerator three tells us that we have three somethings. What about those somethings? Well, the denominator denotes it tells us what the units are. And so here our denominator tells us that the units are fourths. And when I write this fraction, three fourths, what it tells me is I have three things, each of which is a fourth. The number of things is three. The unit are fourths.


really is a unique piece of the VMware culture where the tech guys get together and they just geek out for a couple of days and you know to be to be awarded best the radio it's like oh man you're a god right it's like the Sundance Film Festival like you said I think culture is something that happens over time and it's preserved over time and it's preserved through people it's not like anything you can write down right of course you can write it down but it won't be what the paper is turned on unless it's practiced every day by the people 100% renewable energy to carbon neutrality to do our fair share but also to help shift the market because it is about the future is about not only the applications and the the problems that technology can help solve but it's also about the nature of energy and the energy the grid mix the energy in the room is just phenomenal if people are there who are really passionate about talking about their work and there's people out there wondering and you meet new people in fact for me in my role what I enjoy the most is of course getting to hear what these guys are doing but also helping them make connections


The BSU women's hockey team is off to an equally impressive start as well. The Beavers are ranked 8th in the nation, sitting 3-1 on their young season so far, sweeping Syracuse 2 weeks ago and splitting with 2nd ranked Minnesota this past weekend. It was BSU's first win against the Gophers in their last 6 tries, and now they'll look to carry that momentum into the weekend against Ohio State. We've got to approach it the same way. It doesn't matter who you play. We've got to be ready to go. I think that's one of the keys. We've got to be on our toes and be aggressive. They've got an amazing goalie who's really stepped up for them this past weekend for sure, and I think we just have to make sure we get lots of shots, get lots of people towards the net. Just play our game and make them play to us. We're going to need to be on our A-game to give ourselves an opportunity. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


Even like the idea of how do we fix things? How do we solve our problems? That way of asking the question smuggles in one of the assumptions from the story of separation that kind of holds the world as this object that you can maybe fix. And that we could even possibly know what the answer to that is. Or the idea that this is a how-to question to begin with. Another way to look at it is that we are in the midst of a stupendous transformational process guided by an intelligence far beyond human understanding and that, yes, you do, you as an individual have a role to play in the healing of the world and the metamorphosis of the world. And in order to enact that role you do not have to have a grand plan that makes sense of it. Because you are deployed by this intelligence to be at exactly the right place in the right time with the right set of gifts that are necessary to be part, to participate in the healing process. The organ of the perception of what is yours to do in participation is the heart. Sometimes the heart's guidance contradicts what the mind thinks it knows about how change is gonna happen. For example, if the heart guides you to be at your dying mother's bedside and you just know with every fiber of your being that that's the most important thing you could possibly be doing right now.  But Ukraine, but like there's all of these, how is it gonna help the world to spend maybe days and weeks changing bedpans, you know?  The mind cannot make sense of that.  Well, maybe you would, but only if your mind were very deeply steeped in the story of interbeing which instead of holding the world as an object understands that self and world are intimately entwined and that anything that you do on the micro level has macro effects and that anything that happens on the macro level is also happening to you. When you understand that then heart and mind come into more alignment and the irrational calls of the heart no longer seems so irrational. There's another logic that validates them. And so that's really what my work is about in this transition in our stories. It's not about don't listen to your mind only listen to your heart. It's how do we bring heart and mind into alignment and heal that division? That's one of the aspects of the age of separation between heart and mind, between spirit and matter between self and other between man and nature all part of the same division that we are in the process of healing.


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We have Chippukizi right here. We have just launched Seven Heaven Music. What exactly do you think this will have an impact, especially to up-coming artists in particular in gospel? Let me first of all start by thanking Guardian Agile for a great initiative. And I believe this is the way to go kwa sababu. I think it was a new way to when I touched the neighbors. We used to have Kitamu, we used to have Ogopa and Kali. So I think this is a big mileage for the gospel industry. At least they have a mentor who can tell them this is the way to go. So we have seen young people who have also been introduced under Seven Heaven Music. Do you think that this is also a hope and a future, especially for how the gospel music is supposed to continue to grow like it was before? As I said earlier, it will depend on how hardworking they will be. Kwa sababu, the moment you are signed and you don't work hard, it won't give you anything. So they must work hard even if they are signed to that label so that also people can know the label and also listen to their music. So with the youth space that you have, what support exactly are you providing for the young people in the music industry? First of all in mentorship. We have heard Guardian Angel talk about how far we have come. Me advising him on what to do, what type of music to do. So I think mimi kama ajagwa. Kwa sababu have been there in the music industry for more than 15 years. The best thing I can do is mentor the young upcoming artist. Nikiwona mahali mutua kuna talent kabisa, he is not financially stable, that's when I can come in. Ok, maybe a quick one supported them when kisa na wakusema ibo. Maybe what pushed you to do that? Nikiwa sababu I know music industry kuna pesa. Nakamanaeza skuma chipukizia kakuwa director mimi ni onenimu bachia kitia director. Mimi siyonangi kitia yote na poteza. Kwa sababu when I was starting I tried to go to big artists for what to attack on his kiza. I worked hard, nika fika mahali nime fika. So the only thing I can give back to the industry is to support upcoming artists. Naadivise because I think most times that I see about financial support. Because I believe once you do a good music, a good song or a good album, you don't need to do a lot of promotion. Kwa sababu people like listening to good music. Ok, maybe a quick one amishimewa. Of course we've been in this industry for quite some time. In our entertainment industry, most of the time kuna kwa nga na record labels na fumbuliwa. But after a while to na kwa saka ziskiya. What advice would you give to garden artists? That's what I've said. Kwa sababu you find the moment you sign artists. Wa na kwa walezi. Most of them don't want to work hard. I've even told the ones who have been signed today. If they don't work hard, even us coming here would be a waste of time. Kwa sababu na wambia, last mawati e bidi. Being signed is 40%. 60% na iao bidi iao e na watareka. Yes, kwa sababu tu meona mingi niu kweli. Watu na sayeniwa, most of the artists expect that once you sign them, wuna apia kila kitu. Nyumba, gari, bibi, kila kitu. Na taka yo mentality toke wadjuwe, kwan zaku sayeniwa niya advantage. Sisi kama mimi sijawae sayeniwa, kwa sababu akwa na ona nikiwa serious. Kwa evo ila kitu na eza wambia, wuki sayeniwa, wera wufanya vitu zaku na uppuji na uppuji na uppuji, kwa sababu ata uki sayeniwa na wufanya bidi iau ita kwa kazi budi. Wosa mzi?  Bibi, why, amani nii me kukusha duka, why you want to support musicians? Kwa sababu unona wiyu diya wama mismama hapa ni ma namziki. Lakin ni mimi ni kifanya uchechi, alikwa, not even kuna support, alikwa na nimenti. Kwa evo kitu nili suma kwa keni kama goda me kubles na talanta na kaku e kama alikwa maisha. Lazi ma piawewe wujaribu kiyona watu wengine, usani ni usani. Wujaribu piawewe kupatiyana ila ujusu kona e kwao. Ki mabazi, ki kufkiriya, ki kukusafili. So mi ni kopa kusababu hawa saye wama ni support. So ni me lani o directionia wuki supportiwa, supportiyana tukwe pomodia. The little you can contribute, you do it, as I said, yamsani, palenja. Ki mabia a quick question to Mheshimiwa Jagwa, apart from Imambuya Guardian. This is a story that was online about iPhone Street Kenya, nili tembe asana. Uka jitu keza palekama director and you address the story. Na watu piwa lukupiga mawe sana wakasema yuga? Ya, wakasema you guys were selling refurbished phones zikiwa kama mpiam kuwa mnadiwa. Would you like to comment on that? Onajiwa ni kazi ni competition kusababu we have sold more than one million phones. So kwa kila bieshara wneza pata kitu moja higenda villa inafa. And as you know, most people wna pata atuengi mutu kama kona iPhone 13 na Taka 14, they usually bring them wna mchengia. So I think ni ma kosa moja ili tokia na badu tunendelea kusa. Kwa ibo competitors diwali tikuleyo story ni kama wana Taka kuhoneshana ni kama sisi atufa ni kazi wene inafa.  All along we will come behind the scenes atu kwa you are the director there. Ilikwadi adi wukamu wa you will just come out and wambia wa Kenya that you guys are apologised for the interview. Kama villa ni lisema last time kilu kwa na interview. Mimi ni mufanyi bieshara na badu mi ni musa ni na badu mi ni kukaserikal. Si lasmo wende wuki tangaza kila kitu ni kona ni mabondo ni kona ni kua ibo vitu zingine tu naikachini amaji kwa sababu si lasma kila mutu wajio. Kwa sababu I believe watu kujua nafanyi nafanyi nafanyi mahali mi naitaji watu wajio ni tawambia ilu wani support. But for now na Taka ni seme 2 kusawa na bieshara ine nendelea po. So yo kubrandi wakama watu anbo wana uza fake funds? Hida effect bieshara? Ata kidogo. Kwa sababu watu wana juwa ni kazi ni competitors. We have sold more than one million. Natuli sema ule mutu wakana shida letter to mchengie and we did that. Yes. Okay thank you so much. Amazing just last one maybe if you have a word for a young person munya kona talent. You have mentioned umeskiza music just tell them something when you are coming. By the way I wanted to comment on niliwa na musa ni brother a calligraph. Aki fanya interview na camera zi media aki sema ati music aina pesa. Mi na Taka ni mwambia akuna industry kuna pesa kama art industry. Wai wuki wa serious ufanya song uta tengeneza pesa. What do you expect to make money na huna hit song? Yon ni oswali na mwuzi na mizu takitu anza kutusi anawu me sema mi na muwadifa iskama mze kwa sababu ati brother kia menipata ko industry. And calligraph is making money. Tumi on aki jenga mamanshona na enesha malexas. So mutu kukujaku wambia wasa ni wale wana come wana come. Wana Taka ku kwenge kwenye music industry. Music aina pesa yon ni wongo. Nataka yarejin ni limwambia. Wone zaku wana fanya bieshara zaku na tengeneza muziki lakini usiwe roho ya wale wana Taka ku fanya music wasa. Na mimi ziai tengeneza. Ata ni qiwa mp. And I have said this before. Ile pesa ni li tengeneza ni qiwa msani Ata siku wipata ni qiwa mbunge. Sometimes I even used to ask myself why did I join politics? Ni kachana na music. Wale wami na Taka ni enkare juwala wasa ni wana come up. Industry qiwa na pesa. Ikona pesa uki juwani bieshara. Na ujuwe li kitu na fanya. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Nani mudu? Nani mudu?


Hi and welcome to the session. Let's work out the following question. The question says, construct a triangle ABC in which BC is 6.5 centimeter, angle A is 60 degree and median AB is equal to 4.5 centimeter. Let's start with a solution to this question. We see the steps of construction involved in solving this question. Step one is draw a line BC of 6.5 centimeter. So let this be the line BC of 6.5 centimeter. Step two is draw the perpendicular bisector of BC. So like this we draw the perpendicular bisector of BC. Step three is at B draw an angle of 60 degree which cuts the bisector at center O. Now like this we draw an angle of 60 degree downwards to BC. Let us name this point X. So now we draw an angle of 90 degree at BX. And let the point where this meets the perpendicular bisector be called as O. Step four is make the circle at center O. So like this we make the circle at center O. Step five is taking D at center put an arc A on the circle with 4.5 centimeter from D. So like this we put an arc A on the circle with 4.5 centimeter from D. Step six is draw a line parallel to BC which meets the circle at A dash of which meets the circle at the point A dash. So like this we draw a line parallel to BC which meets the circle at the point A dash. Step seven is we get triangle ABC and triangle A dash BC as the required triangles. So triangles ABC and A dash BC are the required triangles. So this is our answer to this question. I hope that you understood the solution and enjoyed the session. Have a good day.


The importance of establishing rapport for successful learning Creating a positive healthy relationship with students might not be first on the list in people's minds when they thinking of teaching 101 However, establishing rapport with students is crucial for achieving learning success in the classroom Students who are learning the English language may be apprehensive to try and sometimes fail to speak in front of their peers or to express their ideas in new ways What's more necessary for ESL students? The importance of practicing grammatical structures and fluency to be able to communicate with people in English is a large part of why students hope to improve in their English classes However, fear can hold students back in a large way Without building trust with their students, teachers will have a hard time encouraging them to learn from their mistakes and step out of their comfort zone Theory In unit 10 of this TEFL course, we watched two videos of Anissa instructor What struck me the most about these videos was the stark contrast of the instructor's rapport with his students In the first video, the instructor failed to introduce himself or learn the names of his students He responded to their participation coldly and did a poor job of encouraging everyone to practice pronunciation in new sentences As a result, he received reluctant student engagement When he adjusted his teaching style in the second video to make his interactions specific to the needs and personalities of his students He was able to better assess their understanding of the material that he was trying to teach More importantly, his students had more fun learning the material and were motivated to challenge themselves Process of Relationships Building Establishing rapport does not just take place on the first day or the first week of class Report must be established and maintained throughout the learning process for every student If teachers take time to learn about their students by asking them questions about themselves, they can create more engaging course materials For example, if a teacher knows that most of her students love sports, she can create sports-related games, grammar worksheets Or have the students read the sports section of authentic materials from English-speaking countries When students see themselves in what is being taught, they will more easily understand how they might use the specific language that they are learning in each lesson Report can also be used to maintain a peaceful and productive classroom Behavior management can be prevented if teachers build mutual respect with their students If students believe that their teacher has their best interest in mind, they will be less likely to cause disruptions and will be motivated to listen to instructions Do you want to teach English abroad? Take a TEFL course Students are interested in learning English for a variety of reasons and come from various backgrounds and cultural perspectives When these teachers seek to understand the unique needs of their students, they can tailor their lessons to better serve their classroom When lessons are more specific and when students know that they can trust their instructors, classes will run smoothly and will be full of students who are willing to participate Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad Send us an email or call us toll-free at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today