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ChatGPT and Generative AI in Payments: Reality, Hype, What's Next, and How to Prepare trib.al/YILdMW4


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Forgot to share this last week. I’m honoured to be a part of a 6 episode documentary series featuring women cartoonists from around the world. The first episode won best documentary at Canneseries ❤️ Trailer in the article ✨ variety.com/2023/film/glob…


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Dealing with swarms of donors and aid agencies puts an enormous strain on African bureaucracies. Dealing with the needs of foreign donors rather than concentrating on the local population has further distanced African governments from their electorates. humanprogress.org/its-time-to-re…


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For the government’s lawyers to use incest as an argument against legalising same sex marriage is beyond repugnant. Just truly sickening.

SG Mehta: But I'm attracted to my sister. We are consenting adults entering into activities within privacy. And we claim our right of autonomy, right of choice...based on that, can someone not challenge that why this restriction? #MarriageEquality #SupremeCourtofIndia



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A key distinction here that you cannot evaluate technologies based on their task efficacy as “tools”, an interesting challenge !

Peter Hershock showed the difference between tools, which are designed to serve a purpose, and technologies, which emerge out of their environments: tools need guidelines; technologies need wider geopolitical and economic responses @EastWestCenter #ManyWorldsofAI #DesirableAI



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Air conditioning provides respite from the summer heat, enables humans to inhabit previously inhospitable places, increases our productivity, and has saved millions of people from heat-related deaths. humanprogress.org/how-much-are-y…


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Key points made about education include: * National education systems in host countries must include refugees. * Refugees must be given access to education and training in skills that are in demand in both the national and global labor markets.


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This week @WorldBank launched its 2023 World Development Report with a focus on migrants & refugees. It was an honor to provide input into the report & to see the importance of investing in education featured throughout. worldbank.org/en/publication… #WDR2023


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Given the persistence of high food prices, governments should avoid trade restrictions. To protect their poorest citizens, they should use targeted income-support programs rather than price controls.

Food prices in 2023 will be at the second-highest level since 1975, adding to the woes of nearly 350 million people facing food insecurity this year. Read the #CMO2023 ➡️ wrld.bg/Wj2350NXxAP

wb_research's tweet image. Food prices in 2023 will be at the second-highest level since 1975, adding to the woes of nearly 350 million people facing food insecurity this year.

Read the #CMO2023
➡️  wrld.bg/Wj2350NXxAP


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Thank you for reading. If you want to read more, I wrote this essay last year about the same topic. ourworldindata.org/ai-impact


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As soon as a malicious actor has control over powerful AI, they can use it to develop everything that this intelligence can develop — from weapons to synthetic pathogens. And an AI system's power to monitor huge amounts of data makes it suitable for large-scale surveillance.


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The question today is, what can we do to avoid a situation in which a powerful artificial intelligence is used for destructive purposes?


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This means the following question is extremely important for the future of all of our lives: What goals are powerful, intelligent agents pursuing?


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New research looks at the gendered impacts of COVID19 on the #labor market in #Indonesia. Initial findings suggest an increase in female participation, but with a worrying trend towards informal jobs. Read more in our latest blog. wrld.bg/cujT50NXYIN #informality


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