The Artificial Intelligence Revolution

For better or worse, we are now in the midst of the AI revolution. It presents numerous major challenges and just as many exciting opportunities. As an issue, working on the impact of AI lets me to bring together a number of areas of research and practice that I have been involved in. These include researching the impact of new technology on employment, community responses to social harm and researching how governments can use smart regulation to reduce social harm and mitigate its impacts, helping organisations that work with communities to be new technology early adopters so that they can use it creatively for community empowerment, defining outcomes for government public-facing digital strategy, running a software start-up focused on speeding up organisations strategy and implementation using visual planning, and working as a clinical psychologist on helping people cope with stress.

Presentations and workshops on AI strategy and Impact

I am now making presentations and running workshops for organisations’ staff, management, and boards on the psychological and social impact of AI. These workshops are not aimed just at the level of introducing AI into their products and services. They focus on helping them understand the broader implications of the AI revolution for their business model, customers, clients, comparative advantage. They also cover the social responses that potentially may soon develop in the face of the rapid advance of AI into all areas of life. See my presentation and workshop offerings.

Media comment on AI

I also do a lot of media commentary on the impacts of AI. In particular I am interested in the psychology, social and political impact of AI. See my media pieces on the calls for a pause in AI research, the effect on the political system, and the effect on jobs.