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Daily Inspiration: "The best way to deal with complexity is through simplicity" - Futurist Jim Carroll

I'm busy putting together some slide decks for a number of upcoming keynotes, particularly around - what else - AI.

It's a complex topic to take on - the art of sharing insight involves developing a narrative to get key points across, emphasize what's important, avoiding the trivial. It's a lot of work to build a good deck that will tell a great story, and I always end up putting a substantial amount of time into pulling them together.

Taking on the topic of AI risk is particularly challenging - we all know that there are big challenges, major risks, and huge misinformation issues. And yet, I need to be able to share not just up-to-the-moment risks - new ones are emerging every day - but also share information on a pathway and structure to deal with those risks.
That's why I hit upon the idea of using the slide above to open up the whole section on "AI, Ethics, and the Algorithm." Even when taking on a serious topic, you need to be able to have a little bit of fun with the audience. I'm still using my Jetsons theme a bit within the deck, so why not take on this particular issue by noting that in the original Jetsons TV series, when people weren't looking, the robotic vacuum cleaner cheated by sweeping the dirt under the rug?

In other words, the robot cheated; the algorithm was bad; the ethics were lacking.

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2023/08/daily-inspiration-ai-and-risk-management-the-best-way-to-deal-with-complexity-is-through-simplicity/