This year’s winner of the Balsillie Prize for Public Policy was Wendy H. Wong’s book, We, The Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. The Winner We, The Data is an eye-opening, gripping look at the ways in which humanity is being codified, monitored, and tracked at alarming speed and intensity — in largely unaccountable […]
Emotions are data: Respond to conflict with emotional intelligence
You’re at a party. You don’t know many people at the party. You notice the emotion of discomfort as your stomach clenches and your breathing gets constricted. Your mind labels that as feeling awkward. Yet, someone else, at that same party, with those same emotional bodily sensations, might label the experience as exciting because they get […]
AI product demo: How Google’s NotebookLM helps manage complex information
Google calls NotebookLM an “AI-powered research and writing assistant”. It’s more than that. It “helps users understand complex information by instantly becoming an expert on uploaded sources.” You can upload various types of files to NotebookLM, give it an ask, and watch it “generate” … Focused on AI, I wanted NotebookLM to intersect the big […]
AI and Mediation: Working with the Fourth Party
AI is changing how professional mediators can do business. A pre-recorded presentation by Clare Fowler and Colin Rule (both with Mediate.com), for next week’s Association of Conflict Resolution conference gives a terrific snapshot of what’s possible for today’s dispute resolution professional; e.g. mediator. Click on the image below for the full presentation: The Fourth Party […]