update & consideration re: chair

Hi All,

Firstly -

NB:
https://www.millennium-project.org/transition-from-artificial-narrow-to-artificial-general-intelligence-governance/


i have noted with the author; that he should have asked TimBL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkjyCPuTKPw

jahendler, the web science crew, etc...

and have been encouraged to provide a list; yet, i'd encourage any such
luminaries, to reach out directly.

*CONSIDERATIONS*

I've had some fairly significant setbacks, which have dramatically impacted
my ability to progress in this group.  Its been quite upsetting.

Human Centric (AI); as a theory, has progressed alot since i initially
spoke about it, in terms of credentials (now often termed 'digital
identity') and RWW (solid) some years ago[1]; noting, of course, that the
underpinning tech was always designed using AI tech - so the term was
implicit, until later.

Yet, my experience in recent post-covid WSIS2023 + UN discussions, led me
to believe it was important to progress additional works in this area;
thereby leading to the creation of the group.

My hope was to establish the requirements to uplift the resources available
to support the development of, what i consider to be, these most important
works...  but sadly, some barriers have come-up that appear to be beyond my
means to overcome in a timely manner.

Consequently,

Whilst i'm working to figure out a work-around; which is likely to be about
a crypto based method for addressing underlying 'digital slavery' issues
that otherwise disaffect people seeking to work on good things for the
betterment of humanity, as individuals; yet also,

The other consequence is that i do not think that i'm best equipped to do
honour to the role of chairperson for this most important group, and
thereby believe the most honourable thing for me to do is to step-down.
Doing so, will also help free me up to engage in more adversarial
engagement, in the pursuit of supporting outcomes to support human rights,
and promote the development of peace infrastructure projects; but that is
quite different to the general methodologies otherwise exemplified in
recent years...

Yet also; whilst my capacity to do better is diminished, I am not seeking
to abandon the group.

I am thankful for the support provided by colleagues to help get the thing
started.

So,

if i do not hear back from people, i'll change the settings to resign in a
few days time..  If the suggestion is that I'm better off maintaining the
role, even though I can't do much atm; then, that's ok with me too.

whilst i'm able to do more than nothing; should that be the alternative...
I'm also not at all confident that I'll be able to do enough, or that I'll
have any resources to help me do much at all; in this very complex
space, that needs more minds.

in terms of this shift; what i'm looking into, is how to create solutions
for a 'medicinal earth', so basically what that means is that i'm looking
at how to form a 'human centric web', to support AI processes whereby the
knowledge of biosphere fauna, flora; and their medicinal qualities, can be
employed by persons as a means to fabric the blend between various
traditional medicinal systems; common-sense, privacy; and the means to
promote a different form of healthcare, that changes the way people life,
what they eat, and how they use solar energy - to plant their medicines,
rather than getting scripts with alternative ideological solutions built
around human identity being defined by 'their' wallet.

to achieve this; there needs to be a way to pay people fairly for useful
work, which given the implications of my failed assumptions; is likely to
be via extending older works on payments, baking 'social' into the browser
(social web / part of the old definition for Web 3.0); and looking to
create a new method that way, which means people who contribute aren't
expected to...  well..  human rights solutions, can't be built with
'digital slavery' business models; imo, that just won't work, not to
produce 'reality check, tech'.

Yet, I do not see this method as being something that results in the entire
solution being about providing the support this group hoped to progress,
around interoperability, safety protocols, etc...  Perhaps it will be once
those tools are made; but they're not created yet, and time is ticking away
whilst international efforts are underway to define political solutions,
based upon the technology options that are available today.

So,

If there's a volunteer - please let me / us know... If there is someone to
hand the torch to, I'd be happy to support any such process...

I have attached a link to the slides about "ecash"[2], and if you're
interested in seeing the slides about my 'medicinal earth' strategy /
works; let me know, I think it would be too controversial to post publicly.

https://twitter.com/0rf/status/1691957955250331924

I still believe there is a bunch of very important work to get done.. but i
don't know how to fund / resource it.  seems like innovation is required,
to figure that problem out, before being able to do more.

Kind Regards,

Timothy Holborn.


[1]
https://www.w3.org/Search/Mail/Public/advanced_search?keywords=%22Human+Centric%22&resultsperpage=100&sortby=date-asc

[2]
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16EHGn8FBdg27rhuBUDPt2vpp3RJMD3vK99XbBAqTcRk/edit#slide=id.p