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1. Charles Mok | GDPi, Stanford | Tech for Good Asia | March 25 2022
Tech for Good?
A look at tech in the real world — the good, the bad, and the
uncertain
2. Tech is good, right?
Google
2000-2015: “Don’t be evil”
2015: “Do the right thing”?
2011: Arab Spring
5. Case #1: Artificial Intelligence and Data
• Policy concerns:
• Privacy issues, including facial recognition
• Algorithmic regulations
• Becoming social credit
• Data sovereignty
• Ethical issues e.g. warfare
• US-China competition
• China 14th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development 中华⼈⺠共
和国国⺠经济和社会发展第⼗四个五年规划和2035年远景⽬标纲要
• Final report of National Security Commission on AI
• Ref: 2022 AI Index, Institute for Human-centered AI, Stanford
University
• Industrialisation of AI and mounting ethical concerns
6. Case #2: Blockchain and decentralisation
• Blockchain
• Cryptocurrency
• NFT
• CBDC - central bank digital currency
• Ref: Digital Currencies: The US, China, And The World At A Crossroads,
Hoover Institution
• DAO — decentralized autonomous organization
• What’s really Web3?
• Decentralized, or not really?
• What’s beyond the hype?
7. Case 3: Metaverse
• What is a metaverse?
• No, it’s not a multi-verse
• Social media + games + AR + VR + NFT -
regulations?
• Just another hype?
• Yes, China will regulate
• Internet Information Service Deep Synthesis
Management Provisions (Draft for Comment) –
Jan. 2022 (DigiChina translation)
互联⽹信息服务深度合成管理规定(征求意⻅
稿)
8. The Ukraine revelation
• Hackers and cyberwar
• Big tech exit Russia
• Meanwhile, TikTok, Hikvision…
• Remove .ru DNS?
• Clearview AI: Facial
recognition of Russian
soldiers
9. What will the future Internet be like?
• Post-COVID implications
• Social credit
• The Splinternet
• Surveillance and censorship
• A free, open, secure and trusted
Internet no more? Freedom on the Net 2021
https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2021/global-drive-control-big-tech
10.
Charles Mok
Visiting Scholar, Global Digital Policy
Incubator, Cyber Policy Center, Stanford
University
Director, Tech for Good Asia
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