Leadership, Sam Altman, UN AI Panel, Empathy, and Tinyverses
Your Weekly Review of News in Technology, UX and AI
Here’s the latest news, resources, and use cases from the world of product, UX, AI and technology. Let’s go:
📊 AI in Healthcare
👩💼 Leadership
👿 Sam Altman
🤖 UN AI Panel
🫂 Empathy
😢 Human Body Flaws
🌌 Tinyverses
Podcast
Harnessing AI in Healthcare: Insights from RJ Kedziora
In this episode of Product by Design, Kyle Evans interviews RJ Kedziora, co-founder of Estenda, a company specializing in custom software and data analysis for healthcare. We discuss RJ’s journey in technology and entrepreneurship, the importance of energy management over time management, and the role of AI in healthcare. RJ shares insights into the challenges and future of AI applications, the need for ethical considerations, and the potential for personalized healthcare solutions. He also offers advice to aspiring entrepreneurs looking to make a difference in the industry.
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News and Useful Reads
Leadership’s Blind Spot in the Age of AI
What if the actual concern isn’t AI becoming more human? What if our bigger concern should be humans becoming more like machines?
If thinking is nothing but what machines can do, only faster, we have no case: We outsource it to machines. But if thinking is something else — an embodied, attentive activity through which reality reveals itself — then leadership in the age of AI is the task of cultivating a generative capacity no machine can replicate.
Sam Altman seeks new world order for AI as OpenAI slowly loses ground to Google and Anthropic
While I believe that AI companies should be publicly owned since they pose such massive risks and are also based on all our data, I don’t trust the CEOs of said companies to be the ones to structure it.
OpenAI founder Sam Altman has proposed a global framework to control AI and make it safe for humanity. In an op-ed for the Financial Times, he wrote: “A U.S.-led international forum that establishes accepted standards, provides expert and impartial analysis of capabilities and risks, and makes the technology available to nations and companies that participate and follow the rules. This forum might include government representatives, independent technical experts, and others. It could also serve as a governance mechanism over the labs, and guard against the commercial pressures that can lead to unsafe racing.”
UN’s first global AI science panel warns the window to govern the technology is closing
The US and China are obviously dominating the AI race. But everyone has a stake in what becomes of AI and how it affects society.
Artificial intelligence is advancing faster than governments can regulate it, and the world’s first global scientific body on the technology says the moment to act is now.
The Importance of Empathy in Automation
As we automate more and more, especially with AI and agents, empathy will be more important than ever.
A genuinely intelligent AI agent does not block first and ask questions later. It recognizes patterns. Has this client always paid on time? Then the delay probably has a reason. The system could send an empathetic notification before taking any action. It could offer a courtesy window. It could escalate the issue to a human when the situation is ambiguous. An intelligent agent could prioritize retaining a client, which is often worth far more than punishing a late payment.
Other Interesting Finds
Why the human body has so many design flaws
It probably won’t surprise you to learn that our bodies are a series of compromises, which is why they are so seriously flawed.
Many of the body's biggest flaws are the result of evolution building on old designs instead of starting over. Our spine, eyes, teeth, pelvis, and even certain nerves all reveal compromises that worked well enough for survival but still leave us prone to pain, injury, and disease. Structures like the appendix and ear muscles also remain because they were never harmful enough for evolution to eliminate. Together, these features tell the story of a body shaped by history rather than perfection.
Physicists created a tiny universe where time emerged without a clock
I’m fascinated by answering the question “What is time?” But I also can’t help but be intrigued at scientists creating tinyverses. Or miniverses. Because what if we’re in a tinyverse right now?
A physicist at the University of Birmingham has created a laboratory "mini universe" that brings scientists a step closer to answering one of the biggest questions in physics: What is time?
