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Hi friends. Here is further commentary about the madness surrounding ai governance (or the lack of it) and what must be done before it's too late

Last week there was a lot of hype around a hideous concept called AI for Good.it was the second phase of summit from International Telecommunicstions Union (itu) which is tied to corporate sponsorship of Big AI eg Microsoft. It featured a warm and fuzzy press conference in which ais (robots) assured the media that the public has nothing to fest from unregulated ai. All such meetings claim to call for regulation while preventing it. The real message is that the ITU itself -- the tech arm of the un -- has no teeth and only serves to create voluntary agreements that assure the public that world leaders are acting when they are just chatting. ITU did this 15 years ago when they claimed to close digital divide. Meanwhile the divide got worse and wealth flow to the digitalized 1% who control and monetize the data on which AIs depend. This is why the ITUs approach will only obfuscate the urgent need for AI regulation and concentrate world wealth even further in the top tier. This is the problem that Meaningful AI is designed to solve. More on that in my next post. Meanwhile, stay free of the Armageddon, por favor, or it's hasta la vista baby

We are excited to announce a big change at Mindful Tech: Beginning next month we will be centered at University of Washington. It is the worldwide epicenter of research in biometrics and virtual reality while it is also a major center of mindfulness research and practice. Meanwhile, Chulalongkorn University and other international partners will function as satellites for our Seattle-based activity, which will be called MINDFULTECH LAB. Stay tuned to learn our initial projects.

Predicting Relapses: The new science of predicting drug relapses has implications for technology designers who can devise tools to alert users, caregivers or anti-drug government officials. http://paidpost.nytimes.com/university-of-minnesota/todays-research-tomorrows-solutions.html?tbs_nyt=2017-jan-nytnative_hpstory-UMN&module=PaidPostDriver®ion=PaidPostMOTH&pgType=Homepage&action=click

Today's Research, Tomorrow's Solutions (Paid Post by University of Minnesota From NYTimes.com) Meet the researchers changing their fields forever.

Meditation as Virtual Reality: My friend Neville Spireri, the top guy at the VR start up, weVR, enlisted Deepok Chopra to do an VR short film which aims to transmit the meditation experience via VR. Since every day reality for most persons is a simulation, why not?, he says. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/17/virtual-reality-meditation-deepak-chopra-wevr-app

MEDITATING ON THE NYC SUBWAY: This already happens on the MRT skyway in Bangkok. http

Seen At 11: Find Inner Peace In The City With Subway Meditation When we think of meditation, quiet spaces come to mind, but now a New York group is turning that concept upside down.