On the latest episode of the Information Security Form (ISF) podcast, I speak with ISF’s Max Brook and Mark Ward about using scenarios to help security practitioners see beyond present problems: exploring uncertainty, attending to blind spots, and strategizing more effectively under conditions of uncertainty.
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“An app is not going to solve our democracy; it’s something we have to solve ourselves.”
In the new issue of the journal Surveillance & Society, Oxford’s Carissa Véliz, sci-fi writer and aid worker Malka Older, and Capgemini Invent’s Annina Lux join me to talk about how future scenarios can inform discussion, debate, and decision-making about the relationship between artificial intelligence and surveillance.
Read “The Art of Strategic Conversation: Surveillance, AI, and the IMAJINE Scenarios” here.
Scripturient: AI and the future of intellectual property
The latest edition of Scripturient, my column for Information Professional magazine, features Alex Roberts of IP Australia, the government body responsible for administering intellectual property (IP) law in Australia.
As director of the agency’s IPAVentures unit, Alex leads a team dedicated to exploring what might be needed for the IP rights system of the future. They use foresight and innovation tools to consider how we regulate “creations of the mind”: everything from literary and artistic works to trademarks, brand names, and protected product designs.
Recently, IPAventures developed a set of scenarios exploring the impact of generative AI on intellectual property – ranging from ever more lengthy and elaborate patent specifications to accelerated ideations by inventors and even changes to the regulation of plant breeding.
You can read more about the scenarios, and IPAVentures’ work, in our interview from the latest issue of Information Professional magazine.
Scripturient: Cybersecurity Interview with Nicole van der Meulen
In the latest issue of Information Professional magazine, I interview cybersecurity expert Nicole van der Meulen.
You can read or download a PDF of our interview below.
ISKO Singapore: Scenarios, Futures, and Knowledge Management
On 21st April, I’ll be joining a webinar hosted by the Singapore chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization to discuss scenario planning, strategic foresight, and knowledge management.
Hosted by Patrick Lambe, the session will include panellists Gary Klein of Macrocognition LLC and Susann Roth of the Asian Development Bank as well as myself.
The online event takes place on Friday 21 April 2023, 7.00-8.30pm SGT (7.00am EDT, 12 midday UK, 7.00pm Manila) – find out more and register here.
Scripturient Interview: Karen Levy, Road Scholar
In the latest issue of Information Professional, my column ‘Scripturient’ features an interview with Cornell University’s Karen Levy. An assistant professor in the Department of Information Science, and associate member of the faculty of Cornell Law School, Karen researches how law and technology interact to regulate social life, with particular focus on social and organizational aspects of surveillance. We spoke as her new book Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance was being released in the UK. You can download a PDF of my Scripturient column featuring Karen here, and a transcript of our conversation is below.
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