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Dear Kate, and Phillippe,

Thank you for this publication, and your email.

As a Castellian (i.e. Manuel Castells), who some would say theorized the
information technology age (comparable with Weber and Marx), I
contextualize questions about artificial intelligence in the history and
innovations of the internet and computing. Have you read Castells? In
his "The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture" trilogy,
beginning with "The Rise of the Network Society" (1996), he also focuses
much on questions of feminism (which I note is an interest of yours,
Kate). In your broader thinking, how too do you address the advantages
of hacking AI (as in Pekka Himanens' book "The Hacker Ethic and the
Spirit of the Information Age," - with reference to Max Weber - but
regarding all of the hacking that gave rise to the internet and the
Information Age so incredibly?) Here's a related course I teach in this
field -
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html. I
hope to teach this course again this autumn, and perhaps I will give
further explicit thought to AI adn ethics questions toward its close.

For your interest, here's a talk (relating to this course) I did about
The Information Technology Revolution - History and Geography - Scott
MacLeod

https://youtu.be/FJIy6LpZLeI
and this whole series of talks (Castells-informed) addresses ethical
questions -
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLof6LHEpLfwrYnYlQfwU119jDpOwfnZuN
- in a different way than you are, but still might be informative or
helpful.

MIT on Twitter too is developing a significant focus on AI and
anti-racism for example, eg -
https://twitter.com/techreview/status/1291364040510509057?s=20 .

The history of the internet has been remarkably 'un-policied' I would
also argue, but perhaps your publication is marking a new development in
the history and growth of the Internet - and from a German perspective.

FYI, as the founder and president of CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World
University and School, planning major online universities in all ~200
countries - and especially Africa - and in these ~55 countries' official
languages, if possible WUaS's AI will emerge via a Google platform, with
TensorFlow AI, and potentially with courses on the Open edX platform,
with AI. An academic press - with AI machine translation - is also part
of WUaS's plans.

Would you and some of your Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV)
think tank colleagues - https://www.stiftung-nv.de/en/team - enjoy
helping to build out World Univ & Sch in Germany in German, and in
Africa perchance, and with AI too, - and regarding ethical AI and human
rights, and in so many other ways? Please wiki-add your publication to
the Human Rights' wiki subject at WUaS -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Human_Rights (
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects ) if inclined.

Freundliche Grüsse (Ich habe ein Jahr lang in München in 1981-1982
studiert (durch ein Reed College / LMU programme), und kann ein bisschen
Deutsch).

And please let me know who we might come further into conversation in
these regards, if helpful.

Kind regards, Scott
- Germany World University and School -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Germany (planned in German)

- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planning
major online MIT OCW-centric wiki universities in all ~200 countries)

- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planning
wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7,117 known living
languages)


worlduniversityandschool.org
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch


http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress




On 8/5/20 11:00 PM, Kate Saslow | Stiftung Neue Verantwortung wrote:
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> Dear Mr. MacLeod,
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> Artificial Intelligence is a globalized technology that has political,
> economic, and societal implications in every corner of the world.
> Designing, developing, and employing AI is becoming more important for the
> African continent: from African data, to unique use-cases for AI, to the
> local tech expertise. This memorandum, “Foreign Policy Engagement with
> African Artificial Intelligence [2],” highlights some unique
> characteristics of the African AI Landscape, while suggesting how the
> European AI policy community can strategically engage with AI in the
> African context in order to promote sustainable development, AI for good,
> and international cooperation.
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> Philippe Lorenz [3] and I are excited about this new publication format
> within the Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, as it seeks to provide a brief
> analysis of different themes significant to the Artificial Intelligence and
> Foreign Policy Project. The next memo will showcase the United States
> Federal AI Policy.
> I hope you find this memo informative and interesting, I look forward to
> any feedback you have!
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> Kindly,
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> Kate Saslow [4]
> Project Manager Artificial Intelligence and Foreign Policy
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