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- Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI that we made with social media
Obligation of social media platforms?
Digital Social Innovation to Empower Democracy
Discussion topic: how has computing changed personal finance and what are the consequences of this, both positive and negative?
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So the cycle is closer to repeat itself in AI look no
further than the industry poster child. Open AI was leading
offer. His leading offering jet GPT continues to set marks for
uptake and usage within a year of the products launch. Open ads
valuation has skyrocketed to vote 900 billion or 90 billion.
So Zetas monetization with the chat with the GPT store
or no regard is paid to externalities with an upon the
greater public people who aren't even using the platform's even
after society has wrestled with their ill effects. For years
monopolistic social networks have virtually no incentive to
control their products environmental impact and see to
spread misinformation or pernicious efforts on pernicious
effects on mental health. The government is applied virtually
no regulation toward those ends. Anyway, I don't want to be too
much Darrell downer today.
Same and old enough to get the references that are a lie.
There's a character called.
Sorry head for a repeat of that.
Any comments?
So what kinds of regulations
Okay, so just some things to think about. So I invite you to
read the whole article. You should be able to access it
after clicking through
a few screens maybe. As the MIT Technology Review tries to get
you to sign up for some mailing lists and so on.
So I want to show a video or two today
on the theme of.
Social media platforms for the greater good
okay, so Eli Pariser was an organizer for moveon.org and he
had a popular TED talk about filter bubbles in 2011 or 12, I
think. So this is from 2019 I believe.
So this is anyway let's have a look and then we can discuss it.
Let's try that again. Goes to sound on.
I was talking to a guy at a party in California, about tech
platforms and the problems they're creating in society. And
he said Man, if the CEOs just did more drugs and went to
Burning Man, we wouldn't be in this mess. I said I'm not sure I
for one thing, yeah, most of the CEOs have already been to
Burning Man. But also I'm just not sure that watching a bunch
of fascinating people run around and burn things is really the
inspiration they need right now. But I do agree that things are a
mess. And so we're going to come back to this guy but let's talk
about the mess. Our climate is getting hotter and hotter. It's
getting harder and harder to tell truth from fiction. And
we've got this global migratory crisis. And just at the moment
when we really need new tools and new ways of coming together
as a society. It feels like social media is tearing at our
civic fabric and sending us against each other. So got viral
misinformation on WhatsApp, bullying on Instagram, and
Russian hackers on Facebook. And I think this conversation that
we're having right now about the harms that these platforms are
creating is so important. But it also worried that we couldn't be
like a kind of good existential crisis in Silicon Valley go to
waste. If the bar for success is just that it's a little harder
for Macedonian teenagers to have a spot published false news. The
big question I think is not just what do we want platforms to
stop doing? But now that they've effectively taken control of our
own public square, what do we need from them for the greater
good? To me, this is one of the most important questions of our
time. What obligations do tech platforms have to us? In
exchange for the power that we let them hold over our
discourse? And I think this question is so important,
because even as today's platforms go away, we need to
answer this question in order to be able to ensure that the new
platforms that come back are any better. So for the last year,
I've been working with Dr. Talia Straub at the University of
Texas Austin. We've talked to sociologists, and political
scientists and philosophers to try to answer this question. And
at first, we asked the viewer, Twitter and Facebook and you're
trying to rank content for democracy, rather than for ad
clicks or engagement. What might that look like? But then we
realize, you know, this sort of suggests that this is a
information problem, or a content problem. And for us, the
platform crisis is a people problem. It's a problem about
the emergent weird things that happen when large groups of
people get together. And so we turn to another older idea. We
asked what happens when we think about platforms as spaces. We
know from social psychology, that spaces shape behavior. You
put the same group of people in a room like this, and you're
going to behave really differently than in real life.
That's when researchers put software furniture in
classrooms, participation rates rose by 42%. And spaces even
have political consequences. When researchers looked at
neighborhoods with Parks versus neighborhoods without after
adjusting for socio economic factors, they found the
neighborhoods with parks to higher levels of social trust,
and were better able to advocate for themselves politically. So
spaces shaped behavior, partly by the way they're designed, and
probably by the way, that they encode certain norms about how
to behave. You know, we all know that there are some behaviors
that are okay and a bar that are not updating library, and maybe
vice versa. And this gives us a little bit of a clue because
there are online spaces that encode the same kinds of
behavioral marks. So for example, behavior on LinkedIn
seems pretty good. Why? Because it reads as a workplace. And so
if people follow workplace norms, you can even see it in
the way they dress in their profile pictures. So it's
LinkedIn is a workplace. What is Twitter life? Well, it's like a
vast, cavernous expanse where there are people talking about
sports arguing about politics, yelling at each other for in
trying to get a job all in the same place with no walls, no
divisions and the owner gets paid more collaborative noises.
No longer it's a mess. And this raises another thing that
becomes obvious when you think about platforms in terms of
physical space. Good physical spaces. are almost always
structured. They have rules. Silicon Valley is built on this
idea that unstructured space is conducive for human behavior.
And I actually think there's a reason for this myopia built
into the location of Silicon Valley itself. So Michelle Phan
is a sociologist who studies how norms vary across cultures and
she watches how cultures like Japan, which she calls tight and
very conformist very well following and cultures like
Brazil are very loose. And you can see this even in things like
how closely synchronize the clocks are on a city street. So
as you can see the United States they want to lose their
countries and lose a stake in the United States says, You got
it. California. And Silicon Valley culture came out of the
1970s California counterculture. So just to recap the spaces that
the world is living in, came out of the loosest culture and
elusive state and one of the looses countries in the world.
No wonder they undervalue structure and I think this
really matters because people need structure. You may have
heard this word anime. It literally is a lack of norms and
French and it was quoted by Emile Durkheim to describe the
vast overwhelming feeling that people have these cases. Would
have marks. No, he has political consequences. Because what delta
has found is that when things are too loose, people crave
order and structure and that craving for order and structure
correlates really strongly with support for people like these
guys. I don't think it's crazy to ask if the structure lessness
of online life is actually feeding anxiety that's
increasing responsiveness to authoritarianism. So how might
platforms bring people together in a way that creates meaning
and helps people understand each other? And this brings me back
to our friend from Burning Man. Because listening to him, and I
realized, you know, it's not just the Burning Man isn't the
solution. It's actually a perfect metaphor for the
problem. Yeah, it's a great place to visit for a week
because amazing art city rising out of nowhere in the dust, but
you wouldn't want to live there. There's no running water.
There's no trash pickup. At some point the loosen the gyms run
out, and you're stuck with a bunch of wealthy white guys in
the best in the desert. Which you know, for me is sometimes
how social media feels in 2019. I've read fun hallucinatory
place to visit has become our home. And so if we look at
platforms through the lens of spaces, we can then ask
ourselves, who knows how to structure spaces for the public
good. And it turns out that this is a question so the main
thought for a long time about cities. Cities is worthy
original platforms. two sided marketplace check plays to keep
up with all friends and distant relatives. Check Becker for
viral sharing, check. In fact, your cities have encountered a
lot of the same social and political challenges that
platforms are now encountering is dealt with massive growth
that is overwhelming to existing communities, and the rise of new
business models. They even have new frictionless technologies
that promise to connect everyone together. And that instead,
deepen existing social unrest divides
of because of this history of decay and renewal and
segregation and integration, cities are the source of some of
our best ideas about how to build functional, thriving
communities. Faced with a top down harder than vision of city
life. pioneers like Dean Jacobs said, let's instead put human
relationships at the center of urban design. Jacobs and her
fellow travelers like AMI wiper editor, were these really great
observers of what actually happened on the streets they
walked, you know, where did people stop and talk when the
neighbors become friends? And they learned a lot. For example,
they noticed that successful public places generally have
three different ways that they structure behavior. So there's
the built environment you know, that we're gonna put out the
year with a playground there. But then there's permanent like,
let's put a banner that says, and get the kids out. And
there's this idea of Mater's people will kind of take this
informal ownership of the space to keep it welcoming and clean.
All three of these things actually have analogs online. A
platform is mostly focused on code on what's physically
possible in this space. And they focus much less on these other
two software social areas. What are people doing here? Who's
taking responsibility for it? So like Jane Jacobs did for cities,
totally. And I think we need a new design for online space, one
that considers not just, you know, how do we build products
that work for users or consumers? How do we make
something user friendly? But how do we make products that are
public? Because we need products that don't serve individuals at
the expense of the social fabric on which we all depends and we
need it urgently because political scientists tell us
that healthy democracies need healthy public spaces. So the
public friendly visual design movement is high. Imagine, ask
this question, you know, what would this interaction be like
if it was happening? In physical space? And then ask the reverse
question, what can we learn from good physical spaces about how
to structure behavior in the online world? For example, I
grew up in a small town in Maine. And I went to a lot of
those town hall meetings that you care about. And unlike sort
of the story about surgeon they weren't always next. Like people
have their conflicts and feelings. It was hard sometimes,
but because of the way that that face was structured, we managed
to land it. Okay. How? Well here's one important piece. The
downcast lands the dirty love the raised eyebrow, cos when
people went on to won or lost the crowd, it didn't get banned
or blocked or hauled out by the police. It just got the soft,
negative social feedback. And that was actually very powerful.
I think you know, Facebook and Twitter could build this
something like this.
So I think there's some other things that online spaces can
learn from offline spaces. Although you might observe that
in coffee, public spaces are often in many different places
that afford different ways of relating. So the picnic table
where you have lunch with your family is going to be, you know,
may not be suited for the romantic walk with a partner or
the talk with some business colleagues. And it's worth
noting that in real space, and none of these places, Are there
big visible public signs of engagement. So digital designers
could think about what kind of conversations do we actually
want to invite. And how do we build specifically for those
kinds of conversations? Remember the part that we talked about,
that built social trust? That didn't happen because people
were having these big political arguments? Most appraisers don't
actually even talk to each other for the first three or four or
five times they see each other. But when people even very
different people see each other often develop familiarity, and
that creates the bedrock for relationships. And I think
actually, you know, maybe that early idea of cyberspace is kind
of this body less meeting place of pure mind secure ideas, send
us off in the wrong direction. Maybe what we need instead is to
find a way to be in proximity, mostly talking amongst
ourselves, so all sharing the same warm sun. And finally,
healthy public spaces create a sense of ownership and equity.
And this is where the city metaphor becomes challenging
because if Twitter is the city, it's a city that's owned by just
a few people, and optimized for financial return. I think we
really need digital environments that we all actually have some
real ownership of environments that respect the diversity of
human existence. And then give us some say, and some input into
the process. And I think we need this version. Because Facebook
right now I sort of think of like 1970s, New York. The public
spaces are decaying, there's trash in the streets. People are
kind of like mentally and emotionally warming themselves
over burning garbage. And
and the natural response to this is the hole up in your apartment
or considerably into the suburbs. It doesn't surprise me
that people aren't giving up on the idea of online public
spaces, the way that if given up on cities over there. And
sometimes I'll be honest, it feels to me like this whole
project of like wiring up a civilization and getting
billions of people to come into contact with each other is just
impossible. But modern cities tell us that it is possible for
millions of people who are really different, sometimes
living right on top of each other, not just to not kill each
other, but to actually build things together. Find new
experiences create beautiful and important infrastructure. And we
cannot give up on that promise. If we want to solve in the big
important problems in front of us, we need better online public
spaces. We need digital urban planners, new JJ versus Oregon
to dog parks and park benches of the online world. And we need
digital public friendly architects who are going to
build what Eric claims are cost palaces for the people libraries
and museums and town halls. And we need a transnational movement
where these spaces can learn from each other, just like
cities have about everything, from urban farming to public
art, to rapid transit. Humanity moves forward, when we find new
ways to rely on an understanding and trust each other. And we
need this new era more than ever. If online digital spaces
are going to be our new home. Let's take a comfortable,
beautiful place to live. A place you all feel not just included,
but actually some ownership of a place to get to know each other.
A place you actually want not just the visit but to bring your
kids Thank you
What do you think? Of that one? What do you think? About?
So who do you see as being fires tires as Facebook like the
neighborhood with garbage on the street and boarded up buildings
any comments?
answer the first question. I think web designers would be a
good start.
So is there a need to change the model? So the web designer
maybe has to think about monetization. Earning a living
from their safe
so
do we need alternatives to advertising?
Do you want to add some more?
That is tricky, especially when it comes to web design given
that the internet is generally considered free, like to just
surf the web, go to websites and stuff. So it's harder to to
monetize much other than advertising space.
Yeah, so.
Maybe you could look at subscriptions.
I've thought of what a game design involves trying to
navigate a web page on a mobile device without getting an app
can be a challenging game?
Okay let's
so let's watch another video
maybe answers some of the questions and the first one or
addresses them anyway and then we can discuss in groups and
then there's we have an opportunity we'll watch an
uplifting
video
before we say goodbye for the day and for the month of March.
I like many people today working out the classic democracy and an
optimist. This strange condition if you that was that was 1996.
So Audrey is the Minister for digital innovation in Taiwan.
And the future of human knowledge. As always. Teachers,
I want you to quiz and start my vacation on the wildlife
surprisingly on my teachers every winter so it'll be a year
later I founded my first startup of men working on web
technologies and discovered this fabulous community that works
with this crazy idea of an open and multi stakeholder political
system that powers the internet still today. Today as our spirit
official minister and putting into practice the lessons that I
learned when I was 15 years old, and it has radical transparency,
civic participation and a rough consensus. A surprisingly is
working and is transforming our society.
Right writer means making the most of my personal creativity,
like some Gobelet is more than just a tool. It's like go to
understand the side
today what is really good office office and the teleworking
Minister so I can work from anywhere on this. But this place
this vessel. I meet people every Wednesday 10am to 10pm is my
office hours. Anyone can come and talk to me as long as it is
pretty far conversation can be posted to the internet. It's
called radical transparency. And so this space itself is a co
creation with more than 100 social innovators who come to me
and say for example, a team of designers and artists work with
people was trying some of the difference is instead of sitting
down and say, Oh, look at the world in a very different
geometric lens. So how about we make the artwork real and
consolidate this public installation of like the socket.
So this is the leaves a spirit of creativity and just talked to
me everyone said you can make the space grow more interesting.
So it's not just human this case, we have this self driving
robotic disappears for three times now each time for a month
or so. So there's self driving tricycles from the MIT Media
Lab. The freezing a web pulse is that first is really slow. It
doesn't harm anyone if it runs into buildings or anything to
people. But the second thing is that it's open source and open
hardware, meaning anyone who has any knowledge of computer
programming or public can continue to fix that what the
society wants. So for example, people saw that it only had one
audit to read are in the middle beside the sidewalk, and it's
not very thorough. So people would change it so that it has
two eyes, it can wake and flip it to and integrate center with
the society. And this is how we figured out there's more how to
AI should live with humans, instead of having the technology
dictating the Society for Social Innovation and working with
technologists. And this is infused with what our president
that good sign was said to me five years ago. That are in
operation. She said before democracy is seen as a clash
between two opposing values. From now, democracy must become
a conversation between men. And indeed, the traditional thinking
the government is like a row in the middle with each minister.
Maybe they're not as each different forces like for
economic development versus environmental eco friendliness
is like the tension that pulls the strings that is the dominant
itself. But now we have a new way of thinking of social
innovation and social innovation. We can develop
business models that further the social and environmental goals,
the government's role has changed. Instead of asking, what
is the fair the best arbitration, we asked two new
questions. Firstly, ask even our different positions. Is there
some common values after that everyone can move? And the
second question is even Coronavirus, can come up with
new innovations that delivers the size to everybody. And
indeed, in Taiwan, we use a lot of very novel regulatory
policymaking tools like the sandbox system that makes the
sort of innovation possible. What is the sandbox? A sandbox
is essentially the innovator come to us and say, I have this
very interesting new idea. It could be about platform economy
could be about it could be about self driving vehicles you name
it could be anything. And I think the individual says the
government's regulations is our fit. Now instead of fighting was
the innovator, leader regulator now saying, Okay, now you're
even a year. And during the idea, we've agreed to run this
your new version of the regulation, what we call a
forked version of regulation, and try it out for a year. So
that whole society knows what this wonderful new idea really
looks like. And by the end of the year, everybody looks at
this hybrid models of transportation in the self
driving vehicles can save together whether this is
actually beneficial. And if it works, I feel the air version of
the regulation become our version of the regulation. And
if it doesn't work well is open innovation. So we think that
investors are paying the tuition fee for everyone and the new
innovative can begin where the previous unit Richard left off.
And whenever the members of the parliament think that we want to
make a new law, that innovators are given up to four years,
essentially a monopoly because everybody else's will be equal.
And while that in theory that of course, by the time they figure
it out, the law and pedigree would enter the market. Now how
do we actually discover what a reasonable design how do we even
this out that word indigenous the rural the remote island
since well, I for around sidewalk every couple of few
seconds or so. So let's say people come to our capital city,
and our queue states I traveled around so far. The greatest
thing about San Juan, is that we have brought that as a human
province. So anywhere in Taiwan, if you don't have two megabits
per second of economic value, this is my fault. You can talk
to me and unlimited data transmission with 4g network is
less than 20 euros per month for everybody. And because of this
anywhere around it's one of his setup is high speeds to with
video conference connection with the Taipei Social Innovation
Lab. So I've talked with the local social enterprises, NGOs,
call us and so on and to figure out what your local social
issues and meanwhile inside les Paul's different ministries
people gathered in social division, but to meet it is
through telepresence with the local people. And so this is
better than the previous way where the Ministry of Economy
would get an idea. And then they will say, oh, we'll have to
consult the minister of interior for the world consult the
Minister of Health and Welfare and so on. And after like three
passes, nobody really remembers what was the original social
situation. They're just some PowerPoints. So in this way,
people cannot just say hello, I have to continue to serve
material because Minister interested in by next year. So
people are really happy to bring some on the spot and to figure
out some ways to make this ocean and so the Emperor we have a
public demonstration of facilitating people's free
energy and things like that with a public demo that's in the
shower, racy, it's near and icy real estate. Another great thing
about San Juan is from the most most to the sales most sci fi
serious, it just an hour and a half. So even though we're just
you know, for the 3 million people, actually it is a really
tight knit community. So if everybody can just hop on the
high speed rails and visit those self driving cars like that we
will resume at having the opportunity to try out the
interaction style ourselves. Now, when I said everybody does
a consultation to get each other's feelings, whether it is
acceptable to the society, the emerging technology out there to
get what do I really mean by that? Usually, we run an AI
moderated conversation. This is called polls is a open source
tool, meaning just like your self driving vehicles, anyone
can see and modify it to your liking. And this is the
consultation, the map that we have on the modular briefcase,
that is the first piece that Taiwan handled in front of the
thing. And here you can see that 1000s of people have different
maps of the opionion canvas and view the blue surface in the
middle so you can see what your friends and family think about
one particular social issue of your own place. And when we run
a consultation like this, we've said focus conversation method.
And this means first we ask everybody for data. insight on
when we sit over data. We don't just input the government data
we have a system for that as well. Everybody contributed
factual data for people to have a reflection on. And somewhat
interestingly, we allocate y max for people's feelings about us
in the data. And so that still sucks. You can feel happy. I
think you're angry. So okay. So after a loss of checking in with
each other, it seems to be moved to ideation. And by that we can
say the best ideas are the ones that takes care of the most
people's feelings. And that was we have a rough consensus within
just scandals, consensus asylum into new laws and regulations.
And so we put a lot of fear into the design of the interaction.
So for example, self driving vehicles, you can see one
statement my feeling from your fellow citizen, you can agree or
disagree with it, as you agree or disagree dramatically move to
where the people that feels pretty much like it. But unlike
many other online forums, there's one thing missing here.
There is no reply button with a sub ID that if we don't have the
Reply button that shows shows Thrive probably because they can
attack that person, multiple statements. But if you take away
the Reply button, if you see something that
you really don't agree with, you can just delete this. And then
of course, you can propose something else for other people
to resonate with. So after running a consultation for a
month or so, we always get this case, this is maybe the most
important slide in this entire deck. If you live on the
mainstream media, or at least on social media, people often think
that society is divided by two dogs or whatever, right? And
they're mostly focused on the Sci Fi thinks that is the most
divisive, either using POTUS, we can see clearly that most people
agree with most of their neighbors, or most of the things
most of the time, it's just it doesn't formulate the regular
discussion on social media. And by giving people a reflection of
the class consists of the actual paths, we can put those into
regulates us, because it's already more while cabling or
deferring that legislation with the divisive issues. We can
experiment from another idea so that everybody has some
experience before deciding and so that that is how we deliver
the social innovations. That is a picture of the people's
consensus.
Lesson 14 The government was working the regulatory system.
There is wonderful launches series technology you can read
and see inside one already started from Taiwan and went
everywhere. In the world. And so the secret or God is someone
with a really similar idea. All the government websites in
Taiwan as was G O V that either way, and this demand is G zero v
that TW for each of the service of the public service that
people don't like, or think that is too boring, or fake, that
isn't the same. Instead of blaming, why everybody's doing
this, this multiple affairs zero is nobody that can do this. So
in every public service website, in fact, it's something that you
that it should you change it oh to the zero, they have gotten
into the shutdown and that is interactive, that is open source
that delivers a fork, a new version of the public service.
So when you find the 12 the first go zero project is called
the national budget visualization. It used to be the
national budget of Taiwan is 500 pages two years and nobody wants
to read it. But God zero makes it so that they become a de
facto there's nothing you can do that to the particular that is
it that you care about as a real client. And visitors. And after
I'd come to additional minister, of course, I merge this
innovation back into the government. So now it the
purpose station platform of Taiwan, of which 5 million
people out of 53 million is a part of. You can see 1000s of
different ministerial projects on procurement API's and things
like that. Anyone can comment on it as a career public service,
respond to your record without the delineation of NPS or of
journalists, and this enables state over the effect of this
isn't stealing. Another recent example of good zero is this
airbox experience in Taiwan people care about the air
quality for example, PM 2.5 and so on. And so, about 2000 people
or individual can purchase some small devices IoT devices called
air box, and it measures air quality for less than 100 euros
so you can be put down your schools and your balcony or
anywhere. And this lecture is measured for you people
publishes to a distributed ledger or blockchain so that
people can rest assured that people will not mutate or change
each other some of us and measurements can suddenly see
much more because people can contribute their synthesizer
measurements or thoughts that is not just limited to Taiwan
because the airwalk system is open source anywhere in the
world. People can just download and run with it. And the great
thing about autonomous democracy is that we will we see this kind
of legitimacy, strengthening service tech projects is easy.
Then of course we join them. And so we look at systemically where
the map is missing, maybe the industrial parks, maybe above
the Pescador islands, and then we set up the gearboxes where
the people think you should be participating is quite theater.
So every year, we run a presidential hackathon based on
the data of the collective intelligence, the CI system, the
environmental data system. In the presidential hackathon,
everybody can propose any idea every year we get hundreds of
ideas and each idea is shuffled into a trilingual team of data
scientists of domain experts and other public servants. So each
of the following would seem delivers their pitch to the
President by the end of three months cocreation process and
five things can you deal with the price of no money? They want
the trophy in front of this and herself as a trophy is a
projector to turn on the projector the projects the image
of the President himself handing you the trophy is very useful in
inter agency communication. And they get a presidential promise
that whatever the proof of concept is, in the next fiscal
year that our government will implement that ID as the public
service, so maximizing the impact. And so this is how
Taiwan contributed not just to one or two of the United Nations
Sustainable Development Goals, but about here, especially on
both sides of the scene. That is to say, to build reliable data
that people can mutually trust, to build partnership out of this
common data and facts and through open innovation to make
sure that it deliver things to the betterment of everybody. And
in the last minute, I want to reach in my job description that
I wrote, when I first became official minister. It goes like
this. Obviously, Internet of Things, has made it the Internet
of Things. When we see virtual reality, let's make it a share.
When we see machine learning has made it cool collected, so
obviously, user experience. Let's make it about and whenever
we feel that the Singularity is Near, that is always remember
that a plurality is here. It is so much
would you think about that?
So why do you think maybe it doesn't.
This positive use of technology doesn't exist elsewhere in the
world. What are some barriers?
It's not necessarily alive
Do you think that maybe is
the lobbyists convince the politicians that it'd be bad for
business and that puts it into serious discussions.
So I want to have a chance for some discussion in class today.
I want to look at another aspect of economies of competing
thinking about personal finance. So how is competing changed
personal finance, personal finance and what are the
consequences of this? both positive and negative?
May says the question
Okay.
Is there a group of desert around near you?
So we'll take seven or eight minutes and then we'll come back
to the session.
Right
as far as.
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so many positives or negatives and complicated recessions.
It's made personal finance a lot easier and more welcoming for
people that don't understand that.
Negative
six
other videos that
harassers over the trends?
You're never actually out of money in your wallet, or use
like Apple Pay or just like tabs and stuff like that. Ever, like
have a wallet that's empty. Stop spending money on your credit
card.
The waste of your money is different.
It's just a number.
It's hard to like visualize how much it's worth.
US
actually have access to digital divide, come up people who don't
go to the bank to work with tellers
like our machines now it was cooler all cash flows. And like
what have you only have cash
like saves us money they just give him the goods and services
what are those algorithms?
Total hyper concrete concrete everything.
This bad news that we're losing some skills.
There's budgeting apps
to help people figure that
there's apps to stop misuse so you could have specific fake
credit cards to each individual company that you have. So they
don't know who you are. And then if they try to discharge you
notices and get that extra API barrier
like everybody else so whenever the screen here such as the
discussion so so I emerged to do that thank you for today.
You
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Responses

What important concept or perspective did you encounter today?

Today I learnt about digital innovation.
How silicone valley is seen as structureless because of it being in California
no really
Social media issue repeat with AI. The AI tech advance is unprecedented and we don’t know how big the consequences yet regarding its true impact. AI is scary yet can be good and useful if used correctly.
a good one
Digital Innovation in Taiwan
Today we encountered economics of computing
That Taiwan has broad band internet across the whole country for a country with 23000000
Digital innovation in Taiwan
Yes, talked about who would be new urban planner
online platforms are the new spaces and we need online urban designers
digital innovation in taiwan
The type of regulation we should seek was important concept i have encountered.
Some digital Innovations in Taiwan that seems to be working for them.
The technological innovations brought in Taiwan is the most inspiring I have known the way they have incorporated open source computing is I feel the right use of it. Also the idea of implementing the proposal of the general public in governmental affairs to try for a year is also an innovative approach.
AI heading us into capital of social media
no
importance of computing in today financial situation
We talked about Computing, financial system, etc
technology holds a very strong influence over society. some regulations that we should be seeking include transparency and accountability, as well as ethical guidelines. Users should understand how AI algorithms function and make decisions. Ethical guidelines can address issues like AI's impact on employment, its potential to affect inequality.
The monopoly of tech giants in Assessable operating systems
One important concept that I encountered while discussing with my group about computation of personal finance is credit cards. We talked about how many banking companies use credit cards to exploit money from people by using ads to push them into increasing their credit limit.
And important concept was looking at the benefits and drawbacks of computing on personal finances, especially considering how money is so accessible with card and mobile phone payment methods, yet easier to spend irresponsibly.
the impact of computing on personal finances
security
Taiwan has country wide broadband Internet access. This is possible due to their small geographic region
We discussed the ethics of owning and developing a large social media platform. Specifically, it included how to make these online social spaces better.
I found it important that the question of what regulations we should be pushing for was brought up. Right now a lot of the stuff on the internet isn’t heavily regulated, it is really just easy for companies to take advantage of us. What can be done to stop this?
The topic on how computing changed personal finance
nothing
Ethics
Digital Innovation
Quality of rivals
Who will be the new urban planners like urban planning will likely be much more data-focused
The social media issue with AI
Does being in an information age mean that we have vast amount of info good or bad or that we are informed and make that distinction?
An important concept I encountered today was the way Taiwan innovates using completely different policies than in North America. I thought Dr. Hepting provided a good point of big tech is preventing this innovation from happening for monetary reasons, and it made me realize how money hungry these companies really are, and are not focused on the people who use their programs but just the money that these users bring to the company, only releasing new features when it is monetarily beneficial.
not really
The idea that we have to have internet platforms that mimic the real life activities. I would have never thought we should be trying to incorporate technology in a more natural way that advances what we were doing before.
more about ethics and the ted talks
Digital Innovation in Taiwan and asking why not anywhere
they were pretty understandable
The ethical impacts of tech in finance is actually really potent. The ease of access to funds, while great for people that need to access money they have, can pose great risks for those that end up using money they *don't.*
obligation of social media platforms
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Social media, computing
The affect that computing has on personal finance, and how it changed it.
the intresting topic i learned was the apple antitrust case as i am also a apple user so was a fun
An important concept I learnt is how the AI industry is basically heading directly to the same problems/ downsides that befell social media
Today we encountered the pros and cons of computing in personal finance. I think computing has allowed people to be able to manage their finances more easily. The issue is the people who arent good with technology, so they dont gain from it like the people who do know how tech works etc.
The role of web designers in the tech industry
The perspective that social media sites like Facebook end up like the neighbourhood with garbage fires everywhere.
Digital Social Innovation to Empower Democracy, Obligations of social media and group discussion around "computing changed personal finance"
We talked about how computing has changed personal finance and we watched 2 videos about how social media is too open and how the Tiwan government works.
How the social media spaces/structure affects conduct. eg LinkedIn vs X(Twitter)
Obligations and allegation on social media, more discussion
An important concept i learned today was on digital innovation in Taiwan from the TED Talk Video
economics of computing
Regulations of security
There was one important thing which was about assignment 3 discission.
Gained some different knowledge about the subject in a interesting way.
we learnt about Who will be the urban planners?
Computing about financial system
Today we looked over the idea regarding technology and social innovation. One TEDTalk focused on creating environments online where people can have a place to communicate and feel comfortable; this talk's main idea is that humanity can only move forward when we trust one another. Another TEDTalk was about using technology to build a framework where democracy becomes less like two sides 'tugging', and moreso a conversation/discussion. Both these talks emphasize the importance of communication to better our s
We encountered different concepts in class and also discussed innovation in taiwan and social issues.
Today we discussed about kind of regulation
I realized how much of an impact computing has on our personal finance. For example, with the rise of Apple pay, online shopping, credit cards, etc. it changes our view of money as a whole. We might end up spending more in the process because we view money more digitally than tangibly.
About urban planners, web designers as a start
Nothing
Digital innovation
economical computing
Today we learned about risk and reward in society
Computing for personal finance
No
How technology relates to personal finance
Digital innovation in Taiwan
Empower Democracy
Learnt about Apple Case
Digital Innovation in Taiwan
about ass 2
Today we watched a couple of videos in class
We watched videos and talked about multiple concepts today
No
The idea of various environments affecting people's train of thought within the ted talk
Today we watched 2 TedTalks one which was from Audrey Tang and how the empowering democracy with technology. Tang said he uses the internet as a space for civic participation, dialogue, and consensus building. Another thing we talked about was if it was possible to navigate a page on your phone without getting hit with an ad; which by testing this out, i have found it is nearly impossible to not get hit with an ad if we are on websites or social medias.
Knowing about the digital innovation in Taiwan was really eye opening. That should happen to other regions, too.
It was a great class, as it usually is. I love his humor
Economics of computing, innovation in Taiwan, urban planners and web designers as a start
Economies of Computing
How might platforms bring people together and create meaning? - User friendly vs. public friendly products - online spaces can learn from offline spaces - we have different ways of relating - incidental exposure - the more you encounter someone, the more familiar you will feel with them. - sharing proximity to build social trust - healthy public spaces creates ownership and responsibility - we need digital environments that respect human diversity
We briefed on computing and encouraged conversation on the history before continuing through the lesson plan
Digital innovations
nothing
Today I got to know about thoughts on how computing has changed personal finance from some students.
We can foster a digital landscape that can both be efficient and successful while not necessarily having to align with corporations and stakeholders. Instead of a digital landscape that doesnt respect our privacy to data and shamelessly plug corporate greed, we can ask for consent and be explicit in the use of data and lessen the amount of corporate dreck on the Web.
.
we learned about infographics
Economies of computing
the upsides and downsides of how computing has affected personal banking.
we watched a lot of informative videos
The important part out of today's lecture that was the videos we watched together.
The history of computing.
Nothing
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discussion on infographic
Economics of personal finance
Mistakes made during emerging social media
No
First part of the
computing change personal finance
Digital Social Innovation to Empower Democracy
Nothing
how has computing changed personal finance and what are the consequences of this, both positive and negative?
Economics of personal finance
I learned about how the introduction of ai can be compared to how social media was introduced, and that we shouldn’t make the same mistakes that we did with social media, to ai.
Following the TedTalk with Audrey Tang, we discussed how computing has changed personal finance, and found that on of the positive consequences was the access to information, but a negative consequence is the risk of having personal information compromised.
So many
Economics of Computing. Knowing about the digital innovation in Taiwan was really eye opening.
Today we watched couple of videos on different topics.
An important concept I encountered today was the fact that spaces are able to shape behavior. The way in which they are designed and the way they encode behavioral norms often affect our underlying tendencies. Digital spaces and social media platforms also shape behavior, and thus we must work towards building a healthy and structured environment that is conducive to human behavior.
no
The perspective of who will be the new urban planners
who will be the urban planner
Social causes of AI
About digital transformation

Was there anything today that was difficult to understand?

No, the class was great.
No
no
No everything was clear today
no there wasn't
No
no
Nothing of particular interest as we watched a couple TED talks
No
Nothing so far
nope
no, there was not.
No
Approriate balance to Support Innovation and the public interest
no
Everything was understandable
No
todays class was particularly easy to understand. I didn't find anything difficult
No
nope
no
I think the challenge of making our current social medias more "livable" and ethical is a very difficult problem. It's hard to even come up with good solutions because there are not many examples of healthy "livable" social media sites.
N/a
no
No
No
No
Yes, on how will urban planners plan will effect our future world.
No
No
no
no
everything is clear
it was straight forward
no
NO
No
No
no everything discussed was explained properly
Nor really
no
How web designers are going to fix the dumpster fire that is Facebook.
No
Nothing was difficult to understand
No
Nothing
NO
no
No
No
There was nothing difficult to umderstand on that lecture.
No
Nope
no, i understand everything
Not really.
No
No
Nothing was difficult to understand today.
no
Nope
No
not really
No
No
No
no
Nothing
Is Facebook, etc the neighborhood with garbage on the street + boarded-up buildings?
no
Not today
The thing about regulation was quite confusing at first
No
no
n/a
Nothing particular.
No
nope
No there was not
I understood the topic well and have no remaining questions
No
nothing
I couldn't understand much about what is the Facebook, etc the neighbourhood with garbage on the street and boarded up buildings.
.
no
Not really
No
Everything was pretty easy in today's lecture. So, I have not encounter anything difficult.
No, everything was easy to understand.
Nothing at all
could not join class and website was not opening with localhost refused to open it error
no
no
Nothing
No
No
no
no
no
No
No, everything was clear in today's lecture.
No
No. Everything was easy to understand.
No
Nope, I was able to understand everything that happened in class today.
no
No
No
No
No

Was there anything today about which you would like to know more?

I would like to know more about regulations in environmental computing.
The correlation between silicone valley being structureless and located in California
yes,but need specific topic
No the topics was good and informative.
leanring more about stuff
No
no
How designing social media platforms like city structures aid in the way groups of people treat and behave on the platform.
No
Please talk about final exam
digital innovation
understanding and Mitigating the risks of AI is one of the concept i would like to know more.
No
Nothing.
no
more about final exam
No
i would like to lean more about the balance to support both innovation and the public interest
Lawsuit against apple
nope
no
I think the concepts of what makes up a good and healthy social media platform is very interesting. I loved the analogies the speaker gave about making them like neighborhoods, and I'd like to explore ideas similar to this in class.
N/a
no
No
step that can be taken to stop companies from creating software that is not focused on protecting the human using itc
How do you think emerging technologies impact data privacy, and what measures can be taken to ensure responsible data handling in the digital age?
No
digital innovation in taiwan
Taiwan Digital innovation
No
no
no
no
they were very understandable
no
NO
No
No
there was nothing which needed to be explained again
i would like to know more about the digital innovation in Taiwan. The ability to access internet at high speed anywhere is something i'd like to learn more about
What framework web designers should follow in order to make ethical and fair designs
More information on the digital innovation in Tawian, as it was very interesting.
No
Strategy used by Taiwan Digital Minister to address some of the tech issues and social space.
Nothing
NO
no
No
No
There was nothing interesting which I would like to know more.
No
Nope
yess i would love to know more about banking sector
Not really.
No
No
I would like to know more about social innovation.
no
Nope
I want to learn more about digital innovation in Taiwan
no
No
No
No
no
Nothing
Where is the appropriate balance to support innovation and the public interest?
not really
No
Nothing much after watching the videos again im doing alright
No
no
n/a
No, everything had enough source material.
No
nope
No there was not
I feel like I encountered everything I would have inquired about
What kind of innovations we should be seeking in details
noithing
I would like to know more about digital innovation in Taiwan.
.
no
No
No
As mentioned everything is straight forward for now.
No, I feel satisfied with what I learned and it was straightforward.
Nothing
could not join class and website was not opening with localhost refused to open it error
no
no
No
No
No
no
not particularly
no
No
I would like to learn more about current events related to technology and computing.
I don't think so
No. looks like perfect content for the given topic
I would like to know more about the similarities between the issues with social media and ai . How are they related.
No
I would like to learn more about how we, the users, can help create a safer digital architecture and encourage responsible usage of various social media platforms.
no
No
No
No
No

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