Maybe people aren’t rejecting AI as much as they’re rejecting a future that’s being imposed on them. When students boo the mention of AI at commencement speeches, it’s a signal of a societal undercurrent quietly, and eventually, loudly, pushing back against a perceived threat. And it’s not the technology that’s a threat as much as how AI, or at least the AI narrative, is wielded by doomer CEOs of frontier AI companies (AI will take jobs!) and the decisions executives…
Twitter Trends: Airline Hotlist August 2009
As Twitter adoption travels from the left to the right of Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovations Bell Curve, mainstream consumer behavior gathers momentum, manifesting into influential and telling market indicators. This invaluable behavior and sentiment eventually becomes deafening and without actively monitoring and analyzing this movement, we miss opportunities to learn, grow, and help. We need a prescribed lens into the real-time thoughts, observations, and experiences of real people, unfiltered, to make informed decisions and both lead and evolve along with…