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 Here are some things that teachers of teens should explain first about Oren Etzioni and the Allen Institute of AI:

• Oren Etzioni is a computer scientist who is interested in using artificial intelligence (AI) to solve real-world problems. He is the founder and CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a non-profit research institute that is dedicated to developing safe and beneficial AI.
• The Allen Institute of AI is one of the leading research institutes in the world for AI. It has a team of world-renowned scientists who are working on a variety of AI projects, including natural language processing, machine learning, and computer vision.
• The Allen Institute of AI is committed to making AI research accessible to the public. It has a number of educational resources, including a website, blog, and YouTube channel.

Here are some specific questions that teachers could ask their students to help them understand Oren Etzioni and the Allen Institute of AI:

• What are some of the real-world problems that Oren Etzioni is interested in solving with AI?
• What are some of the AI projects that the Allen Institute of AI is working on?
• How does the Allen Institute of AI make AI research accessible to the public?
• What are some of the ethical concerns about AI?

By answering these questions, teachers can help their students understand the work of Oren Etzioni and the Allen Institute of AI, and they can also help their students think critically about the ethical implications of AI.

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Unacknowledgded Giant 2.1

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Norman Macrae, Japan Order of Rising Sun with Gold Bars, CBE was a British economist, journalist and first author of internet generation (& 21st C youth economics), considered by some to have been one of the world's best forecasters when it came to economics and society -dad valued youth more than any economist or journalist or mass mediated public servant I have met- what were his methods?

Viscount Matt Ridley , long The Economist's Science editor, reminisces in 2010:on The Death of Optimism

When I joined the Economist in 1983, Norman Macrae was the deputy editor. He died last week at the age of 86. Soon after I joined the staff, a thing called a computer terminal appeared on my desk and my electric typewriter disappeared.

Mapping 3 billion new jobs- The book that launched the net generation

Around that time, Norman wrote a long article that became a book about the future. It was one of the strangest things I had ever read. Celebrating boundless optimism --

. This book explores the lovely future people could have if only all democrats made the right decisions.

Integrating a weird technological vision --

Eventually books, files, television programmes, computer information and telecommunications will merge. We'll have this portable object which is a television screen with first a typewriter, later a voice activator attached. Afterwards it will be minaturised so that your personal access instrument can be carried in your buttonhole, but there will be these cheap terminals around everywhere, more widely than telephones of 1984. ..

...The terminals will be used to access databases anywhere in the globe, and will become the brainworker's mobile place of work. Brainworkers, which will increasingly mean all workers, will be able to live in Tahiti if they want to and telecommute daily to the New York or Tokyo or Hamburg office through which they work. In the satellite age costs of transmission will not depend mainly on distance. And knowledge once digitalised can be replicated for use anywhere almost instantly.

and innovated a fresh economic perspective



online library of norman macrae - The Economist's Unacknowledged Giant

You need to look at converging 7 wonders of 10 times more economical, sustainable and heroic net generation every which way. For Norman's book looked at all of:

Leveraging optimal worldwide timing for change - back in 1984 :peace, energy, web as smart education and then smart commercial media, then cross-cultural goals then redesign banking and aid and healthcare and womens empowerment an public services and professions

Leveraging what is a regions greatest system conflict:
bangladesh : top-down aid and need to empower maximum bottom up diversity and resilience ti disasters but potentially highly fertile small land plots

Africa- need to end extraction by global corporations so find hi-trust leaders of industries africa can build iteslf

west - rotten media, pr lobbies, over-historic laws, rotten metrics as far as exponetial investment and collaboration across sub-states goes

japan and china- being celebrated by rest of world as creditor nations that need to lead worldwide youth's millennium goal investment and decisions

Leveraging gamechangers in each global market sector to integrate most massive whole truth purpose - what 7 billion people most want purpose of that sector to safely compound. Spotting ahead of time gamechangers - some of which will be last call for reversibility

Understanding how the greatest - goodwill's most multiplying heroes - of history provided clues on cross-cultural and borderless convergence. A different role for the world service public media

AI2 (Allen Institute of AI) & AI

 

Can you help me understand the relationship between the allen institue of AI and the Allen Institute?

The Allen Institute of AI (AI2) and the Allen Institute are two separate organizations that are both funded by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. The Allen Institute was founded in 2003 to advance scientific research in a variety of fields, including brain science, genetics, and artificial intelligence. The Allen Institute of AI was founded in 2013 to conduct research on artificial intelligence and its potential benefits and risks.

The two organizations have a close relationship. The Allen Institute of AI is a part of the Allen Institute, and it shares some of the same facilities and staff. However, the two organizations have separate leadership and separate research agendas.

The Allen Institute of AI is focused on developing safe and beneficial artificial intelligence. It is working on a variety of projects, including natural language processing, machine learning, and computer vision. The Allen Institute of AI is also committed to making AI research accessible to the public. It has a number of educational resources, including a website, blog, and YouTube channel.

The Allen Institute is focused on advancing scientific research in a variety of fields. It has made significant contributions to our understanding of the brain, genetics, and other areas of science. The Allen Institute is also committed to making scientific research accessible to the public. It has a number of educational resources, including a website, blog, and YouTube channel.

Both the Allen Institute of AI and the Allen Institute are doing important work that is helping to advance our understanding of science and technology. They are both committed to making their work accessible to the public, and they are both working to ensure that the benefits of science and technology are available to everyone.

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Meet the individuals who make our work possible.

Allenites (what we call our employees) come from myriad of interesting backgrounds. You’ll find neuroscientists, cell biologists, mathematicians, physicists, engineers, immunologists, geneticists, informatics experts and a team of administrative professionals working side-by-side to achieve our goals.

We’ve also cultivated a community of thought leaders in our Board of Directors, Advisors and Collaborators. They provide invaluable oversight, guidance, input and perspective to shape how we approach our research and pursue our mission.

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Lenina Arenas-Fuentes, M.Ed.

Chief of Staff

Christopher Beaudoin, MBA

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Rui Costa, D.V.M, Ph.D.

President and Chief Executive Officer

Ruwanthi (Ru) Gunawardane, Ph.D.

Executive Director, Cell Science

Christof Koch, Ph.D.

Meritorious Investigator

Meg McClellan

General Counsel

Rob Piercy

Executive Director, Communications & Engagement

Helen Protheroe, Executive Director, Philanthropy & Global Partnerships

Kathryn Richmond, Ph.D., M.B.A.

Executive Vice President, Director Frontiers Group and Office of Science and Innovation

Petra Smith, J.D.

Executive Director, Human Resources

Karel Svoboda, Ph.D.

Vice President and Executive Director

Marjorie Thomas

Chief Financial Officer

Arden Yang

Vice President, Innovation

Hongkui Zeng, Ph.D.

Executive Vice President, Director of the Allen Institute for Brain Science

what would mooc be like if it aimed to scale lifetime intelligence of humanity's best

 in 2013 we had the privlege to discuss this with fazle Abed- more than any other person his intelligence helped the world poorest vilage women build banglades as 8th most populous nation

abed died december 2019 and founded bangladesh rural advancement committee in 1972

first he made it clear c most be for cooperation; how do we design a mooc that isnt examing poeople but helps mentor them - a question also being asked in 2020s of AI agents

Lets suppose you opened fazle abed mooc - would you like to see 8 chapters- thats our guess; if so what we wnat ti do is seloect the 8 greatest transformations that abed scaled through 1972-2019

lets list chapters in order he felt he had surprised people- we can then list that sequentailly

in 2001 steve jobs staged 65th birthday wish party with Fazle Abed in silicon valley - abed suprised the valleys gtreatest cratives- he wanted to foudn a university where the graduiate research formed the most colabortaive paretnershoisp not the most exclusive alumni club; moreover he wanted brac universitgy to lead research not being domne elsewhere but relevant to women buildind nations

banglades was one of first nations to design mobile pjones and solar to leapfrog (the nation rurl areas had not enjoyed wited electrivity or fixed like phones)- while yunus tried to invent telephone girl solutions. abed surprsied people- there were at least 10 value chains that vilages had led by replicating millions of mothers franchsies; brac had ensured ownership of value chain on behalf of teh wpoemn; but now that t6he nations rural and city markets were converging, abed prioritised first 10 years of brac access to digital and solar round leading the overall value chain nation =wide of sudch markets as rice, eggs, milk, wholesaling basic meds ...

he lso waited for the best partners to connect together before designing teh largest cashless bank in tersm of population served bkash whiuch merits its own chapter

one of brac's unique networks was that which empowered vilage somen to build health services - not just with retailing basic meds but with every mother taught how to do oral rehydratyion; this was part of 15 yerar partenrship with unicel james grant - so it was natural to choose james gbrant school of global health as unique core of brac university system which also merged with the nations ch=olera lab; brac started hosting annual summirt of frogal system designs of global health

one of the questions mr and mrs job had asked abed in 2001 ws why does yunsu offer solutions intentaionally but you fociu=us on bangladesh; abed said he had been so busy it hadnt seen relevant in the era of vilages prior to mobile and solar tobuold an international office- but he would if he could find a nation with a suitable lehgal framewpork bot to handle intenational clients and to develop bracs remiitiaces service - one third of all banagldesh exports comes from remittamces; historicall the value chain supplying that had been expensive - abed saw chnace to integrate that imnto a whole range of finacial services whoich kept brac microfinance plus but now added city bank, bkash and international remittances

unfortunatley the bordering natiosn of bangladesh are ed- myanmar has caused million rohinga to seek asylom and brac has to sustain teh largest service to immigrants; 

in abed's fianl years he realsied his internation focus had tried too much to please atlanti9c partners nd had not advanced bangladesh'a min proble- its infrastructure connectying natiosn is hemmed in by the colapsing nation of myanmar and lack of sonsisten undersdtan ing of bamngaldesnh and neigoring india states

more coming soo or see www.catholicuni.com or correspond chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

belt road and jinping speech chronology

1. President Xi Jinping announced the creation of the “Economic Belt of the Silk Road” in a speech in the Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan in September 2013. The Belt is a land-based economic corridor extending from eastern China to western Europe and engaging 69 nations in its path. One month later he announced, from Jakarta, Indonesia, the intention to launch the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road together with other nations. This includes building numerous ports on the sea lanes of the Pacific and Indian Oceans and the Mediterranean. The two projects complement each other and together make up the BRI. http://english.gov.cn/beltAndRoad/
2. BRICS 2014 See http://brics.itamaraty.gov.br/media2/press-rele ases/214-sixth-brics-summit-fortaleza-declaration
3. BRICS may 2017 declaration 1. We, President Xi Jinping of the People's Republic of China, President Mauricio Macri of the Republic of Argentina, President Alexander Lukashenko of the Republic of Belarus, President Michelle Bachelet Jeria of the Republic of Chile, President Milos Zeman of the Czech Republic, President Joko Widodo of the Republic of Indonesia, President Nursultan Nazarbayev of the Republic of Kazakhstan, President Uhuru Kenyatta of the Republic of Kenya, President Almazbek Atambayev of the Kyrgyz Republic, President Bounnhang Vorachith of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte of the Republic of the Philippines, President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation, President Doris Leuthard of the Swiss Confederation, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of the Republic of Turkey, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev of the Republic of Uzbekistan, President Tran Dai Quang of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, Prime Minister Hun Sen of the Kingdom of Cambodia, Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Prime Minister Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama of the Republic of Fiji, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of the Hellenic Republic, Prime Minister Orbán Viktor of Hungary, Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni of the Italian Republic, Prime Minister Najib Razak of Malaysia, Prime Minister Jargaltulgyn Erdenebat of Mongolia, State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Prime Minister Beata Szydło of the Republic of Poland, Prime Minister and President-elect Aleksandar Vučić of the Republic of Serbia, President of the Government Mariano Rajoy Brey of the Kingdom of Spain, and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, attended the Leaders Roundtable of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation on 15 May 2017 in Beijing. We also welcome the participation of Secretary General Antonio Guterres of the United Nations, President Jim Yong Kim of the World Bank Group, Managing Director Christine Lagarde of the International Monetary Fund. The Leaders Roundtable was chaired by President Xi Jinping of the People's Republic of China. See: http://www.beltandroadforum.org/english/index.html
4. Full text of the jinping speech BRF 2017 speech: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-05/14/c_136282982.htm
5. world bank report 2010 poverty china See: http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2010/03/19/results-profile-china-poverty-reduction
6. china uses more cement in 3 years than usa in century https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/03/24/how-china-used-more-cement-in-3-years-than-the-u-s-did-in-the-entire-20th-century/?utm_term=.078c78e82bfb
7. jinping africa speech 2015 Text of the speech can be found here: http://www.focac.org/eng/ltda/dwjbzjjhys_1/zyjh/
8. Text of the Johannesburg FOCAC Summit Declaration: http://www.focac.org/eng/ltda/dwjbzjjhys_1/hywj/t1327960.htm
9. china discussion of win-win Source: http://english.cntv.cn/2015/10/20/ARTI1445325120332760.shtml
10. Text of the china arab policy speech: http://english.gov.cn/archive/publications/2016/01/13/content_281475271412746.htm
11. Jonping UN speech was titled “Working Together to Forge a New Partnership of Win-win Cooperation and Create a Community of Shared Future for Mankind.” https://gadebate.un.org/sites/default/files/gastatementsjinping UN 2015 /70/70_ZH_en.pdf
12. Speech at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference in March 2015: http://english.boaoforum.org/hynew/19353.jhtml
13. helga zep speech stockholm Full text of the speech: http://newparadigm.schillerinstitute.com/blog/2017/01/11/helga-zepp-larouche-lifts-stockholm-audience-sublime-schiller-instituteeir-seminar/
14. Typical of what Mrs. LaRouche is referring to here is a very widespread notion among many academics. See the book review titled “The Chinese Invade Africa” by Ian Johnson, New York Review of Books, September 25, 2014 (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/09/25/chinese-invade-africa/) and see the BBC report titled “China follows British footsteps to African wealth” (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/9023642.stm).
15. Full text: http://www.larouchepub.com/hzl/2015/4225paris_conf_jun13.html
16. Source: http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2015/11/16-g20-summit-antalya-communique/. See also the joint World Bank-IMF report, “From Billions to Trillions: Transforming Development Finance”: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/DEVCOMMINT/Documentation/23659446/DC2015-0002%28E%29FinancingforDevelopment.pdf
17. See, for example, this report from the U.S. Cato Institute: https://www.cato.org/policy-report/januaryfebruary-2017/megaprojects-over-budget-over-time-over-over, or this newspaper article in the Canadian Globe and Mail: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/move-over-megaprojects-here-come-the-teraprojects/article27973165/
18. Former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland headed the UN-appointed World Commission on Environment and Development, releasing the report “Our Common Future,” also known as the Brundtland Report, in 1987: http://www.un-documents.net/wced-ocf.htm
19. Source referenced above: joint World Bank-IMF report “From Billions to Trillions: Transforming Development Finance” (http://siteresources.worldbank.org/DEVCOMMINT/Documentation/23659446/DC2015-0002%28E%29FinancingforDevelopment.pdf) and Antaliya G-20 Summit Communiqué (http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2015/11/16-g20-summit-antalya-communique/).
20. Elliott Roosevelt, As He Saw It, 1946.
21. Ibid.
22. “Agenda 2063: an e-mail from the future,” Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, AU publication, 2014.