I wanted to highlight a part of the conversation over our Private Dinner last week. I asked Dr. Seth Dobrin about his opinion on the AI landscape and the hashtag#EUAIACT that is coming out these days.
His point is that we don’t know what it’s going to be, but whatever it is, it sets very tough regulations with significant punishments for whoever wants to do business with Europe.
Whatever it is, it also pushes any company or government that wants to do any work on AI to follow the regulations coming from the Western world + China to the emerging world in Asia, Africa and LATAM. He continued that this is a form of Western Colonialism with AI. The only countries that own AI are the US and China, Europe and other countries would have to rely on the U.S., China and EU, following their standards aka biases.
This can be viewed as we are pushing our biases to everyone else. Only those who can afford like Saudi Arabia and Emirates with access to the capital are building their own LLMs with their own perspectives, aka biases.
We are creating a new global AI gap. Gap of knowledge and gap of access to education.
This is thought-provoking.>>>>
Later, Brian shared how they help to mitigate this gap by empowering the public education sector like community colleges, most importantly Miami Dade College to bring AI education to the masses. The hero story was Antonio’s who jointly with the great leaders and a great team at MDC, has been able to educate AI to 600 students. Students that 60% of them are professionals over 30 and these are early AI adopters who bring AI to industries. MDC is bridging the gap with good leadership, good people and good support.
The cherry on top: AI education is free for every Miami-Dade resident. 🌞