Showing posts with label Risks. Show all posts
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2023-04-29

2023-04-29 Saturday - The A.I. Dilemma - March 9, 2023, Center for Humane Technology

 

This video of a talk - covers everything that I have expressed a concern about, regarding the unconstrained explosion in AI capabilities - without guardrails, governance, legal frameworks, and international agreements.


The A.I. Dilemma - March 9, 2023
Center for Humane Technology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoVJKj8lcNQ

#AI #Risks #GenAIRisks

Tristan Harris started his career as a magician. He studied persuasive technology at Stanford University, and used what he learned to build a company called Apture, which was acquired by Google. It was at Google where Tristan first sounded the alarm on the harms posed by technology that manipulates attention for profit. Since then, he's spent his career articulating the insidious effects of today’s social media platforms, and envisioning how technology can serve humanity. Today, Tristan is the executive director and co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology.

Aza Raskin was trained as a mathematician and dark matter physicist. He took 3 companies from founding to acquisition before co-founding the Center for Humane Technology with Tristan and Randima Fernando. Aza is also a co-founder of the Earth Species Project, an open-source collaborative non-profit dedicated to decoding animal communication. Aza’s father, Jef Raskin, created the Macintosh project at Apple — with the vision that humane technology should help, not harm, humans.


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2020-05-13

2020-05-13 Wednesday - There Is No Free Lunch



Today's Meditation: There is no free lunch.

If someone is trying to sell you a "silver bullet" solution/platform - something that they claim is faster/cheaper/easier - you need to stop and ask some deep and probing questions - of them, and of yourself.

How open/available is access to their documentation and training for their platform?

Is their source code available to you, as a customer (i.e. think risks to your own business continuity)?

Are they willing to put their source code in escrow - to include all of the DevOps scripts that would be needed to automate standing-up your own instance (i.e. if they were to cease business operations)?

How frequently can you obtain full data extracts (and, what will be ongoing costs to keep a recent/fresh extract updated)?

What are you giving up?

What risks are being transferred to you?

What choices are being taken away?

What are the unintended consequences of the trade-offs being made?

What will you do if that company goes bankrupt?

How will you recover your data?

How will you replace/rebuild the functionality their platform delivered?

How quickly can you recover/replace that business functionality (and data) - if they were to cease operations tomorrow?

Even if you did obtain a guarantee of source code being held in escrow - how long would it take you to assemble an engineering team and configure the required infrastructure resources to self-host the solution?

Is it even feasible for you to test this apocalyptic scenario - on a regular basis?

And, if someone is dismissive of these kinds of concerns - or, dismissive of your architects who may raise them - you should really pause and ask what is their true agenda.

2009-01-11

2009-01-11 Sunday - Cloud Computing

http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/

Is Cloud Computing the Wave of the Future?

"Start Taking Cloud Computing Seriously" - Gartner's Advice to CIOs for 2009

“You will need to start leading your organization safely in this inevitable direction, or risk being sidelined by its progress”



Barton George's blog ("Mapping Processes in the Clouds")

Mosso (Cloud hosting) - recently(?) acquired by RackSpace...

The Future of Technology and the Cloud in the Next 20 Years
(SYS-CON.TV Interview with Bill Coleman - Founder, Chairman & CEO of Cassatt Corp)




Here's my take:

Cloud Computing Risks
- Financial viability of the cloud vendor(s)

- System availability of the cloud vendor(s)

"Salesforce.com's SAAS CRM apps went down Jan. 6 in a nearly 40-minute outage...the problem thwarted over 177 million transactions"

http://trust.salesforce.com/trust/status/


- Lack of maturity around cloud computing technology and standards

- New learning curves for development staff

- Availability of stable/mature development tools, libraries, frameworks

- Loss of control over management of critical performance SLAs to business units

- Security vulnerabilities are increased


Cloud Computing [Potential] Rewards
- Higher ROI for new software development efforts

- Lower operating costs (hardware, software, people)

- Increased agility

- Increased innovation

- Increased global collaboration

- Reduced time-to-market

- Reduced start-up costs for new ventures

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