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Recklessness Risk Responsibility and AI

Every silver lining has a shadowy cloud behind it. Unless AI design-stage transformations prioritise preventing deeper disparities, progress will only amplify inherited inequality and intergenerational immobility. Justice demands access to the benefits of innovation and opportunities. Just laws and just redistribution methods can correct imbalances and lighten the burden on society’s most vulnerable. As we […]

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Technology01 Oct 2026

Orbital space-based AI data centres

Countries that invest in building data centres lower the barriers to developing more of their own AI companies. Conversely, countries that do not invest in hyperscale AI infrastructure will be nowhere in the AI value chain. They will remain tool importers, and their workforce will stagnate as users of AI assemblages and as participants in […]

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Technology01 Oct 2026

AI-AdTech and Luxury Beauty Brands

AI is not adding a new layer of advertising to the luxury beauty and personal care market. It is rewriting every layer. The West Indies needs to rebuild its advertising stack around AI, spanning ML-led bidding systems and identity graphs, transformer-based recommendation engines, and agentic advertising infrastructure This will enable the W.I. to map regional […]

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Ecology02 Sept 2026

The AI Earth Manifesto

AI must serve life. Ten principles place ecological integrity, biodiversity, Indigenous sovereignty, and restoration at the centre of AI governance.

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Technology01 Sept 2026

Coding Culture with Data-Driven Innovation and AI

Ours is a civilisation of collisions. The modern world as we know it, was created from these impairments. As doubts about Columbus’s claims of having been close to Japan crept in, disagreements between Castile and Portugal were resolved in the Atlantic. What followed was a cortege of diplomatic standoffs, treaties and wars. Nothing stood in […]

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Technology01 Sept 2026

AI and the Unscripted Chaos of Live Sport

Unscripted chaos in live sport is a hedge against AI disruption. Real-time athletic triumph depends on biological fragility, grit under severe stress, and spontaneous human error that algorithms cannot fake. At the Mondo Classic on 12th March 2026, Armand Duplantis, nicknamed “Mondo”, broke his own pole vault world record for the 15th time with a jump […]

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Technology01 Sept 2026

Creative AI and Data-Driven Innovation in Creative Industries

Creative informatics sits at the intersection of the creative industries, digital, data, creative AI, commerce, the arts, culture, and heritage. In the Algorithmic Age, data-driven innovation can be as valuable as the creative product itself. Organisations and creatives in certain sub-sectors of the creative industries are mastering data-led approaches and innovating with data. Digital creative […]

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Technology01 Sept 2026

Building AI Models that prompt us to think more humanely

To shape the future, we must fashion AI systems that prompt us to think better and more humanely than we naturally do. AI opens up the possibility of augmenting human intelligence and solving problems with wisdom. In that ferment lies the possibility of an efflorescence of machine ideas, new creations, even new species of ideas […]

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Technology02 Aug 2026

AI-Proof University Graduates

Ivy League universities are asking themselves: what value will graduates bring to the workplace that AI cannot provide? Firms and bureaucracies are asking: What would a work environment saturated with frontier AI models require of the university graduate? The University is in ruins. In its pursuit of bureaucratic “excellence”, the University shifted from a cultural […]

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Technology01 Aug 2026

AI Officiates the FIFA 2026 World Cup

The FIFA 2026 World Cup features an AI-enhanced football. The ball has an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU).

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Technology01 Aug 2026

Truth is Not Enough in the Age of AI

Truth is not enough in the Intelligent Age, because AI models don’t "know" what truth is. AI Assemblages function by predicting patterns and harmonising text rather than consulting reality.

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Technology02 Jul 2026

AI Reindustrialisation

Global hyperscale AI infrastructure is undergoing a massive US$3 trillion capital investment supercycle. This capital expenditure is driven by hyperscalers eager to build advanced AI data centres and procure hardware.

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Technology01 Jul 2026

AI and Labour

AI is a foundational layer of labour. It replaces, augments, and manages human workloads.

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Technology01 Jul 2026

AI and the Next World

This is the next world. A Time of Artificial Life and Intelligence. An age in which every design choice reflects a vision for humanity. A hope that can easily overlook concrete lives.

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Technology01 Jul 2026

Moral Attrition and Memory in the Age of AI

The best lie is that a memory always feels so true. LLMs are trained on huge data scrapes that can sometimes "memorise" personal details. To comply with privacy provisions, developers use machine unlearning to make AI models forget particular data points.

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Technology02 Jun 2026

AI-Mood Boards and Robotic Archwire Bending for Carnival Costumes

The archwire-bending brand identity of the Trinidad Carnival has penetrated markets in the Middle East. In Dubai, the world witnessed all aspects of Fête, Jouvert and Mas’, and a "Callalloo" of costumes from top Carnival bands.

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Technology01 Jun 2026

Failure as Essential in the Age of AI

The future we are in now belongs to our children. Our fears can become a cage that makes them doubt their personal theories and capabilities. They are AI-natives. Let them be free to think and create. They will make lots of big mistakes.

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Technology01 Jun 2026

AI as an always-on intelligent security fabric

Mythos is a “step change,” or a non-linear jump, in capability. It is a highly advanced, general-purpose frontier AI model that possesses unprecedented cybersecurity capabilities.

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Technology01 Jun 2026

Selecting Agents and Shielding Your AI Chats

No one can shield their AI chats from prosecutors pursuing charges. Conversations with AI assemblages could be demanded by adversaries in litigation, in both criminal and civil cases. Chats with advocates are always confidential.

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Technology01 Jun 2026

AI-Gravity and Socio-Economic Operating Systems

The future is still about figuring out what questions to ask. This is more important than finding the correct answer to the wrong question. We once learned to use search engines to do more impactful things.

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Technology02 May 2026

The Defence of Data in the Age of AI

Data centres and hyperscale cloud infrastructure are the new victims of war. Hyperscale cloud infrastructure offers unparalleled, rapid scalability for immense computing, storage, and networking demands.

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Technology01 May 2026

Screen Economies and AI-powered Price Tags

AI-powered digital price tags, or Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs), are being adopted by major retail chains.

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Technology01 May 2026

The 100 Model War and Shadow AI

The Hundred Model War started in 2023. From Beijing to the southern Silicon Valley of Shenzhen, China is implementing its AI+ project, which was introduced in 2024 and expanded in 2025.

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Technology01 May 2026

A Regional AI Research Resource and Lab similar to CERN

In many ways, AI-generated content is poisoning the internet, making it less reliable to access clear facts. And while it is indisputable that AI is impressive, it is also predictable.

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Technology02 Apr 2026

From Divine Attributes to AI Scaling Curves

Deep within the glass-walled offices of Anthropic and OpenAI, the quest for the “orderly harmony” of Nicolaus Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Baruch Spinoza, and Isaac Newton continues unhindered.

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Technology01 Apr 2026

Artificial Fertilisers and AI-driven Fertigation Systems

The Strait of Hormuz is a narrow waterway through which about 20 per cent of the world's daily LNG supply transits. Traffic has decreased by approximately 70-90 per cent.

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Technology01 Apr 2026

High Unemployment and Endless Vacancies in the Intelligent Age

Every day, the future changes. It feels almost messianic, rushing toward us. So, what does the future hold? This question recurs each time extraordinary machinery appears. Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are the new silver linings.

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Technology01 Apr 2026

Agility Quotient and the Data Fabric of State Enterprises

Agility Quotient (AQ) assesses our capacity to persist through failure, navigate uncertainty, unlearn, and stay curious in the Intelligent Age.

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Technology01 Apr 2026

A Ministry of Work in the Age of AI

Why do jobs exist? The origin of the word “job” is linked to the period following the invention of the printing press, with its earliest use in the 16th century.

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Technology01 Mar 2026

Autonomous Creative Economies

Economies are no longer primarily industrial. Most of the work is service-oriented and relies on knowledge, ideas, and creativity.

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Technology01 Mar 2026

Prosperity Engines and Specialised Education

As AI boosts work, Taiwan hosted a chip talent camp for teenagers from around the world. The camp was delivered in both Mandarin and English to attract talent.

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Technology01 Mar 2026

Subsea Cables and Swarms of AI Chatbots

Our immediate priority is to prevent the emergence of new social and economic divides in the Intelligent Age. Although the Internet is often depicted as existing in the “cloud”, it heavily depends on subsea cables.

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Technology02 Feb 2026

Intelligent Failure and the IP of AI

Intelligent failure turns on limitless naivete and an absence of artificiality. Failure is intelligent when no formula exists to precisely map the terrain in advance. These failures begin with designing smart pilots that keep failures small.

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Technology02 Feb 2026

AI in a world that is always in movement

Every clean slate comes from some other beginning's end. The old order is not coming back. The exact shape of the new order is still contested, and it may not even be a single, planned system.

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Technology01 Feb 2026

Technology Sovereignty and AI as Board-Level Imperatives

Within a fragmented and rapidly shifting geopolitical environment, from Nuuk to Qom, and from Haifa to Havana, President Trump’s “America First” doctrine, his MAGA worldview, and his administration’s artificial intelligence (AI) domestic policy are increasingl…

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Technology01 Feb 2026

The Screen Economy and Data Chains

We are in the twilight of human intellectual supremacy. The Screen Economy will chaperone an age of unconstrained flourishing of artificial life, the likes of which humans have never witnessed before.

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Technology01 Feb 2026

Finding the Still Point in the Age of AI

We live in a fractured world that is spinning ever so faster. Old engagements in Tiananmen Square, Kosovo, Vietnam, and the first Gulf War are pale to what portends, in Ukraine, Gaza, Taiwan, Sudan, Myanmar, the DRC, Haiti, Sahel, and Afghanistan.

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Technology02 Jan 2026

How AI is Transforming Leadership

Truth is tentative, and certainty elusive. Nothing is pinned. To know is to kill. What remains is keeping the conversation open. It is the only path to make sense of the last edit and to listen honestly.

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Technology01 Jan 2026

AI for those who Escaped and those Left Behind

Brazil has dedicated approximately $4 billion (around R$23 billion) to its National AI Plan (PBIA), "AI for the Good of All." The focus is on infrastructure, innovation, public services, training, and AI governance.

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Technology01 Jan 2026

AI’s Deepening of the Democratic Deficit

Politics is messy, and AI has deepened the democratic deficit. However, this messiness is preferable to the faux-omniscience of AI-Assemblages, which manufacture an illusion of knowing everything.

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Technology01 Jan 2026

The Voice of the Subalterns and AI

In our plantation past, the overseers were always tall, because we were always on our knees. Our history has been imprisoned for far too long.

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Technology02 Dec 2025

The Economic Geography of AI

Anticipation is indispensable, but determination is best for development. Artificial Intelligence (AI) can become a driver for overcoming development traps that hinder sustained progress in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).

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Technology01 Dec 2025

Integrating AI and Wearables into Diabetes Management

Diabetes is a significant and escalating public health challenge. Artificial intelligence (AI) is now being used to enhance early diagnostics and risk assessment for emergent subtypes of diabetes.

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Technology01 Dec 2025

AI and the Iconography of Cathedrals at Christmas

Once, the twin towers of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception signalled to pilgrims and immigrants that certainty and sanctuary were near.

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Technology01 Dec 2025

Conferring Electronic Personhood to AI

Can AI itself be granted rights, including the right to life? This question prompts a deep philosophical and legal analysis of what constitutes "life" and "human dignity.

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Technology01 Dec 2025

AI and a Let-it-Rip Approach to Development

It was once the case in Trinidad and Tobago that many of us began our careers in the mailroom of a local company. My first job was in the storeroom of B.H.

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Technology02 Nov 2025

Open to the New and Procuring the Unknown

A nonstop low-grade fever of optimism fuels Wall Street. Over the last few months, markets have climbed sharply, propelled by the belief that AI will usher in a new Golden Era. No one knows for sure, but we are certain that optimism can be inebriating.

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Technology01 Nov 2025

Facing the Future – An AI Bill of Rights

California became the first state in the United States of America to pass the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act. This modest step forward is not perfect, but it marks a brave beginning as we face the future.

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Technology01 Nov 2025

Peace and Stability and AI Defence Tech

With $3 billion in venture capital flowing into defence startups in 2024, which represents a 33 per cent year-over-year surge, and global military spending reaching an all-time high of $2.

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Technology01 Nov 2025

AI Pharmaceutical Discovery and Indigenous Knowledge

On January 17, 2026, the UN High Seas Treaty is expected to come into force, recognising the knowledge of all First Nation Peoples, including the Nepuyo, Yao, Suppoya, Kalipuna, and Warao of Trinidad and Tobago.

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Technology02 Oct 2025

AI and the Future of the American Mediterranean

Since the fifteenth century, the islands of the American Mediterranean have been deeply integrated into the global economy. The concept of economic globalisation is often viewed as a phenomenon of the late twentieth century.

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Technology01 Oct 2025

Discord and an AI-generated Cabinet Minister

A free press, free elections, the parliament, and an independent judiciary have in some places been reduced to commodities by the free market of corporate globalisation. The neo-liberal capitalists have cracked the code.

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Technology01 Oct 2025

Slow Violence and the Habitual Unfairness of the World

Habitually, when we think of “violence,” it brings to mind acts that have the features of observability, intentionality, and perceptibility. But in the Age of AI, there is an alternate framing of “violence” – it is slow. “Slow violence” is attritional.

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Technology01 Oct 2025

AI Atlases and Digital Twins of Opioid Supply Chains

Humans and technology are no longer separate but form a new evolutionary unit, where technology is not just a tool like a plough in Mesopotamia, but an integral part of our existence and development.

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Technology02 Sept 2025

Floating Drones and the Caribbean’s Insecurities

When a flotilla of three ships blundered into its waters in 1492, the Caribbean was made central to the international security apparatus of our modern world.

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Technology02 Sept 2025

Generative AI and the Lowly Drain Fish

Labelled as a lowly “drain fish”, the Trinidadian guppy has earned notoriety for its ability to invade new environments. Trinidadian guppies can be found in the oily, noxious waters of the La Brea Pitch Lake in southwest Trinidad.

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Technology01 Sept 2025

AI Empire and Vestiges of the Plantation

There is an inherited global hierarchy that persists in occupying the vestiges of old empires, resisting every effort to address inherited inequality and intergenerational immobility.

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Technology01 Sept 2025

AI Ethics and the Rule of Law

An impatient future does not need perfection. Progress always needs some initial action, and the beginning is always today. The European Union’s General-Purpose AI Code of Practice came into effect on Saturday, 2nd August 2025.

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Technology01 Sept 2025

AI and the Collapse of Trust

Beneath the veneer of the twin transitions-decarbonisation and digitalisation-lie two major challenges. The first involves rebuilding trust within and between nations. Trust is collapsing everywhere, including inside global institutions.

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Technology02 Aug 2025

Desktop Robots and Coding Ideas in Classrooms

Imagination is the motor of development. We have the option in the Age of AI to recraft the West Indies. We can act to realise a world we can re-imagine with indigenous knowledge and ideas. But ideas do not record reality. Ideas distort or exceed it.

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Technology01 Aug 2025

AI-Powered Procurement

In the pre-AI era, your P&L was a backward-looking paper ledger. In the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the P&L becomes a forward-leaning tool for growth and competitiveness. Never has this been clearer than in procurement and spend management.

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Technology01 Aug 2025

Copywriting your Body and Facial Features

AI-forgeries, voice clones, and unauthorized Deepfake videos that mimic people’s bodies, facial features, and voices often evade existing copyright protections. We can live with it if we are unaware, but knowing is suffering.

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Technology01 Aug 2025

Pseudonymity and Visa Applications

Governments have recently made it a requirement for student and scholar visa applicants to set their social media accounts to public. This has caused some panic and misunderstanding about privacy and risk assessments. We live in an unusual world.

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Technology02 Jul 2025

Digital Destiny and Artificial Intelligence

Nations must control their digital destiny. At a market stall in Berlin, shoppers line up to purge their mobile phones. They want indigenous Android operating systems without ties to foreign large technology companies.

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Technology01 Jul 2025

Infosphere Agency and Teaching as Anthropology

AI is everywhere, and things are spinning out of control. It is evolving faster than it is modernising the world. It is, therefore, natural for learners to ask what is actually in our power anymore.

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Technology01 Jul 2025

Steering AI Equitably and Sustainably

Life without good politics, rigorous science, and trustworthy technology in the Age of AI can quickly become solitary, deprived, nasty, brutish, and brief, to paraphrase Thomas Hobbes's “Leviathan.

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Technology01 Jul 2025

The Law of AI and Policy Intent

AI policy establishes a unified framework for the government to engage with AI confidently, safely, and responsibly in order to realise the benefits of AI. Laws give effect to policy intent.

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Technology02 Jun 2025

Development and the DNA of AI

An AI Nation demands a capabilities approach to development. The DNA of AI must be spliced into the institutions, the economy, and the civic systems of the state. We are at the start of the AI diffusion climb.

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Technology01 Jun 2025

Industrial Policy and Data Extractive Industries

Industrial policy is back. The Point Lisas Policy best exemplifies the range of choices associated with industrial development during the first Golden Age of expansion, from 1974 to 1982.

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Technology01 Jun 2025

Cyber Economics and AI Defence Operations

Cyber economics is a catalyst for economic growth. It is the economics of information security.

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Technology01 Jun 2025

National Data Library and AI Opportunities Blueprint

For long, we have been curious, but far too cautious. No longer being Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul’s “Mimic Men,” we have become pensive bystanders of the changes unfolding beneath our feet.

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Technology02 May 2025

A Digital Census and a Housing Unit as a Unique Identifier

An AI-driven population census is the most wide-ranging data collection exercise a state can undertake. The census is a dashboard for statistics, measurements, and indicators produced during the intercensal period.

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Technology01 May 2025

Open Minds and AI-generated Assessments

Creeds constrain. Education must foster in every scholar the capacity to take joy in things beyond their understanding and to respond to the uncommon with an open mind.

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Technology01 May 2025

Tariff Turmoil and and the Industrialisation of Intelligence

We are on thin ice. The twin transitions to a new world manufacturing order, and the industrialisation of intelligence are here. As the Trump tariff turmoil is paused, China’s “Manus” which went viral on “X”, foreshadows a new technological order.

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Technology01 May 2025

Cyber Gangs and Identity Access Management

In the Age of AI, bad actors have exploited digital toolboxes to impersonate individuals.

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Technology02 Apr 2025

AI and these brown leaves of islands

The war has always been between what we should become and what we could become. Our unfinished souls remain moored in the sea, our monuments and memories locked in a blue vault.

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Technology01 Apr 2025

AI and a Politics of Truthfulness and Compassion

The wealthiest one per cent controls more wealth than the majority of humanity. A politics of intelligence, rooted in truthfulness, algorithmic fairness, and compassion is urgent.

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Technology01 Apr 2025

AI and the Dragons that Dance

Technological Self-Reliance is a key goal of development. With the rapid advance of AI coding capabilities, the work of human coders will now incorporate double-checking AI-generated code rather than authoring it. However, AI will not replace human coders.

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Technology01 Apr 2025

Ontologies and a Creolized AI-discourse

The ghosts of the future are already here.

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Technology01 Apr 2025

The Carnivalesque and a Decolonised AI Discourse

Mikhail Bakhtin defines the carnivalesque as a space for the "low" to challenge the "high".

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Technology01 Mar 2025

AI and Intergenerational Climate Justice

Climate change is an unsettling intergenerational justice issue. It deserves our undivided and full attention.

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Technology01 Mar 2025

AI and our Post-Truth Predicament

We now live in a chilling era of “post-truth”. Some of us are paddling through piles of lies. Others are sinking in fictions, misinformation and myth.

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Technology01 Mar 2025

AI and the Bridgetown Initiative

In his Socratic dialogue “The Republic” Plato wrote, “our need will be the real creator.” Faced with a dearth of high-end chips, Liang Wenfeng, a graduate of Zhejiang University built DeepSeek-R-1 using less advanced chips.

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Technology01 Mar 2025

Open AI Trojan Horse or Gift

DeepSeek, a little-known Hong Kong AI startup, released a new model series, DeepSeek-R-1 on 20th January 2025. The new Open-source large reasoning model has reshuffled the market.

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Technology02 Feb 2025

AI for Social Good

One of the most consequential challenges of our time is the disruptive application of AI for social good. AI for social good offers unprecedented opportunities across many domains to build inclusive, just, interconnected, and flourishing societies.

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Technology01 Feb 2025

Algorithmic Bureaucracy and the Information Empires

The new “Information Empires” are not unlike those that bedevilled Montezuma, Emperor of the Aztecs, and Hyarima, the Nepuyo Cacique.

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Technology01 Feb 2025

AI-Crimes in the Silicon Age

It is foreseeable that AI-crimes may create blurred boundaries and legal uncertainties.

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Technology01 Feb 2025

AI Exposure and Chatting up the Future

If the lamplighters at dusk in 1878, who made their way ceremoniously along Rue des Trois Chandelles (Duncan Street), accompanied by a boy toting a ladder and a pail of whale oil, and another ringing a brass bell could see the CBTT, the magisterial coastal tow…

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Technology02 Jan 2025

AI and the Politics of Agriculture

By 2050 we must increase world food production. FarmBeats uses AI, Edge, and IoT for agriculture. The digital architectures of FarmBeats is a mesh of long-range TV frequencies to connect with and capture data from solar powered sensors in the fields.

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Technology01 Jan 2025

AI and Attention Markets

To create value in the Attention Markets, businesses will rewire by deploying technology at scale.

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Technology01 Jan 2025

AI and Criminal Liability

What is unfolding is a spectre of regulation by AI, rather than regulation of AI. The rise of “cyber-physical” infrastructure has made the old demarcation between online and offline artificial.

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Technology01 Jan 2025

The Municipal Corporation as an AI Observatory

New intelligent Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) built on Small Language Models (SLMs) are emerging during the infosphere revolution. Large Language Models (LLMs) have lit the slow fuse of imaginations.

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Technology02 Dec 2024

AI Assemblages and Data Ownership

We have crossed the human/machine divide. We have migrated into the infosphere. Its ubiquity depends on how much we accept its digital nature as fundamental to our reality.

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Technology02 Dec 2024

AI and a Digital Pause

No one is enough. No single thought is the perfect answer to all of our problems in the age of AI. We need everyone to collaborate and produce new knowledge in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Knowledge that feels the struggles of concrete history.

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Technology01 Dec 2024

AI and the tribute of Montezuma to Cortes

Understanding digital economies burdens governments in Latin America and the Caribbean to put AI assemblages, data, and data investments into a framework responsive to measurement and policy analysis.

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Technology01 Dec 2024

AI and the Age of Elon

The Age of Elon is here. President-elect Donald Trump has announced the Golden Age of America. He has pledged to struggle for the future of every citizen with every breath in his body.

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Technology01 Dec 2024

AI the Lamb and the Wolf

Over millennia humans have found ways to build communities of strangers, based on clans, faith or none at all, trade along the Old Silk Roads, and in nation-states. History records our dis-ease with reality. History maps our unease.

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Technology02 Nov 2024

Sovereign AI and Latin America and the Caribbean

The Exceptional Caribbean is the centre of the modern world. From here the modern world as we know it, was made. Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is a civilization of the crossroads.

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Technology01 Nov 2024

Uncontrolled Development of AI and Virtual Identity

We are in a stampede to create Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). But it is a race that humans will not win.

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Technology01 Nov 2024

The Silicone Wall and the Old First Empires

Christopher Columbus and Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés participated in the Spanish colonisation of the West Indies. Both were impressed by the size of the canoes made from the silk cotton tree.

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Technology01 Nov 2024

AI and the New Inorganic Networks

Future pull requires divine determination. Reality is limited. In the infosphere, we need perpetual daydreaming and the flow of grace. We must know our place in the future. Fear must depart leaving only delight behind.

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Technology02 Oct 2024

AI Youth and Future Generations

In Scroll 18 of Homer’s Iliad, Thetis the Sea Goddess arrives at the house of Hephaistos the God of Blacksmiths and Craftsmen.

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Technology01 Oct 2024

AI and the Politics of Information

In the African Atlantic environment “Myall” is a channel or portal among the practitioners of Kumina. Kumina is a way of life. It is embedded into the psyche of the Myall community in Jamaica.

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Technology01 Oct 2024

A Cyber Risk-Pool Method for SIDS

There is no shortage of analysis regarding the traditional vulnerabilities of Small Island Developing States and Territories (SIDS). What eludes us is agreement on the solutions and consensus on the way forward during the infosphere revolution.

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Technology01 Oct 2024

AI and Minshall’s Man Crab

Soon, AI will play an increasingly essential role in criminal acts. Certain crimes would not occur “but for” the use of AI. “Only a god can save us.” So said Martin Heidegger, in an interview with Spiegel on September 23, 1966.

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Technology02 Sept 2024

Those Below the Interfaces and those Above the Assemblages

No doubt, Walcott’s epigrammatic utterance to the University of Miami conference on the Americas (1973), in his essay, “The Caribbean: Culture or Mimicry,” “Nothing will always be created in the West Indies … because what will come out of there is like nothing…

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Technology02 Sept 2024

AI and Liability under Uncertainty

In ancient Rome, the determination of accountability and responsibility turned on a basic formula, “cuius commoda eius et incommoda,” (the one who derives an advantage from a situation must also bear the inconvenience).

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Technology01 Sept 2024

Development of a Sustainable Infosphere

Artificial dreams embody our unstoppable quest for non-biological intelligence. It is a quest that does not privilege the natural. It treats all forms of existence and mannerisms as authentic.

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Technology01 Sept 2024

The first AI Olympics

This is the first AI Olympics. In Paris 2024, AI has permeated refereeing, broadcasting, and creating highlight videos in multiple formats and languages.

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Technology01 Sept 2024

Scaffolding Secure Development using AI

AI can release the imagination when put at the service of human intelligence. We can do more, better, and faster, using AI as a scaffold for development in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).

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Technology02 Aug 2024

Green and Blue AI in the Caribbean

“If fortune shuts one door against us, it opens wide another […] and if I do not arrange to enter it, it will be my fault, and I cannot lay it to my ignorance ...” (Cervantes, Don Quixote, XXI).

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Technology01 Aug 2024

An AI Technology Observatory for the W.I.

AI heralds the need for small island developing states (SIDS) in the West Indies to explore the structure of intergenerational solidarity between those disadvantaged today and those that will be advantaged tomorrow.

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Technology01 Aug 2024

Digital Governance and Distributed Responsibility

Digital governance entails drafting and applying policies, protocols, and standards for the infosphere's reasonable development, use, and management.

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Technology01 Aug 2024

The AI Divide and the IMF AI Preparedness Index

Ethics is not the preserve of one continent or culture.

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Technology02 Jul 2024

Artificial Authority and Human Autonomy

There can be no promise of a future based on human rights outside of the difficulties that arise from the transformations of agency brought about by AI on International Human Rights Law.

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Technology01 Jul 2024

Institutional Innovation and Artificial Intelligence

To witness its decline is to see a world emerging. Inheritors of a world we will cocreate with engineered artefacts that deal with tasks successfully with a goal in view, we are now witnessing the ascension of artificial agency.

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Technology01 Jul 2024

Justice as Algorithmic Fairness

AI is not a novel form of intelligence. It is a form of agency.

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Technology01 Jul 2024

Sovereignty and Digital Architectures

The intersection of deep-sea cables, data embassies, and AI will revolutionize industries, enhance efficiency, and drive innovation forward.

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Technology01 Jul 2024

AI SIDS and Gen Zers

Brain.AI, a San Francisco-based AI company, and Germany’s Deutsche Telekom have created a new phone technology. Humans cast an idea and the AI builds out the entire flow with connections you never thought of or imagined.

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Technology02 Jun 2024

Fluid Identities and AI-Assemblages

When binary systems collide with the public manifestation of fluid identities, there are risks and realities of misrepresentation.

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Technology01 Jun 2024

Financing Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)

“Somewhere between the O's and ones” (Nemo), we will find an infinite future. Once the “hardest to reach” were the “geographically isolated.” Today, they are the “digitally disconnected.

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Technology01 Jun 2024

From Plantation to Platform Labour

The AI revolution is not unlike the Industrial Revolution and every other technological and digital upheaval that preceded it.

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Technology01 Jun 2024

After the Future

Where are we? The future is here – it’s just not sprinkled equally. So what happens after the future? We cannot relinquish our reasoned agency and hope to live freely in a future that will never be our own.

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Technology02 May 2024

Trustworthiness and the Moral Architecture of AI

Once, “We were the colour of shadows when we came down with tinkling leg irons…for the silver coins multiplying on the sold horizon” (Derek Walcott, Omeros, Book Three, Chapter xxviii). Now we are certain that we are all free.

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Technology01 May 2024

AI the Odyssey and Ramleela

In “Interview with the Vampire, (1991) Louis de Pointe du Lac re-counts his conflicted existence spanning two centuries. He wrestles with the idea of inherent evil, and like a modern-day Adam seeks the knowledge of the creator. Vampires make vampires.

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Technology01 May 2024

AI and Common Sense

AI is humans.

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Technology01 May 2024

Learning Abilities in the Age of AI-Assemblage

At the Stockholm-based KTH Royal Institute of Technology, some faculty are not at ease with the use of AI until a clear global policy is outlined. They believe that the unregulated use of AI can potentially hamper students’ learning ability.

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Education02 Apr 2024

EdGPT and the Concentration of AI Wealth

EdGPT models targeting curriculum co-design will allow learners in tutoring bars to produce occasions for learning, and interactive tasks that closely align with an effective pedagogical approach and specific curricular objectives and levels of challenge for p…

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Technology01 Apr 2024

Understanding AI as a Social Actor

The aim of AI is not to imitate humans. The aim is to offer humans the tools, technologies, and techniques to better realize human goals that support and enhance human well-being in a sustainable environment for all.

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Technology01 Apr 2024

Reformatting Society using AI

Definitions are tools with heuristic utility. A thin technological definition of AI may be intelligence displayed or simulated by code or machines.

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Technology01 Apr 2024

Algorithms and Tech Emancipation

During the transition to a new digitized, e-economy, lives and livelihoods will be interrupted. In just under a decade, AI and automation will rewrite the skills needed for the future of work.

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Technology01 Apr 2024

A Digital Safety Commission and an Online Harms Act

If algorithms create the content – is it still speech? Is content moderation a euphemism for censorship? By the end of June 2024, the Supreme Court of the United States of America is expected to rule on the fraught issue of regulating freedom of speech in the …

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Technology02 Mar 2024

AI and Partialities and Prejudgements

The last Enlightenment unfolded in the laboratories of Europe. It was a sorcery that created the unimaginable. The pandemic portal has accelerated the arrival of the next Enlightenment. An Enlightenment dripping in AI and Algorithms. A new end of history.

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Technology01 Mar 2024

AI and Finding Privacy

The equal distribution of liberties may only be limited for the sake of liberty, and not for the sake of other social or economic advantages. In this sense, liberty is unlike other social goods.

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Technology01 Mar 2024

AI Assemblages and the End of Historical Struggles

The Iranian scholar Jalal al-e Ahmad wrote that development is not Westernization. In 1992, no one could get around Fukuyama’s theory of the end of history.

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Technology01 Feb 2024

Defending Democracy against AI

The threat posed to democracy by artificial intelligence (AI) is not a dystopian messianic hallucination galloping towards us. It is a future that is already here.

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Technology02 Jan 2024

Will AI be Bleached Out in 2024

In 2024, AI will be imperceptible and ubiquitous. The illusion will be that it has faded, or failed. But it will not stall, or be bleached out. It will embroider itself indiscernibly into the very operating fabric of every enterprise on the planet.

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Technology01 Jan 2024

AI Act for AI Transformation

While digital transformation focuses on the nexus of people and technology, AI transformation emphasises the amalgam of automation and augmentation to optimize, and exponentially scale performance.

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Technology01 Jan 2024

AI and ChatGPT’s Wizardry

The gap between pure brilliance and a convincing imitation of cleverness is only as wide as our own bias.

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Technology02 Dec 2023

AI Capacities and Human Capabilities

AI does not know what it does not know. It is not sentient. The brittleness of what it knows is reflected in the shallowness of what it learns. Accordingly, it is unable to identify and avoid blunders that are vivid to the human.

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Technology01 Dec 2023

Should AI be cabined in a free society

By 2040, AI will be a zillion times more powerful than it is now following Moore’s Law. Moore's Law addresses a doubling up of computer processing capability every two years.

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Technology01 Dec 2023

Non-Human Forms of Knowing and AI

In Plato’s Republic, Socrates explains that we all resemble prisoners chained inside a grotto, and we are yet to grasp that there is more to reality than the shadows of unchanging ideas projected on the walls of a cave.

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Technology01 Dec 2023

Human Thinking and Artificial Intelligence

If AI approximates “thinking”, then who are we? How does the evolution of AI affect human cognition, perception, and interpersonal interaction? The nascent age of AI obliges us to face whether there is a form of logic that humans have not mastered or cannot at…

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Economy01 Nov 2023

On the Edge of a New Ending

Between 1780 and 1850, in under three generations, a sweeping revolution, without precedent in the history of humanity, changed the face of England. In 1944 Dr. Eric Williams published Capitalism and Slavery.

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Technology01 Nov 2023

Claude and the Creator Economy

The sprinters are crouched in the starting blocks of the Generative AI race. Where will the track take humanity – is unidentified. The destination – undisclosed. Next is an explosive horizontal burst in every direction.

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Technology01 Nov 2023

Utilising AI for Tangible Public Good

We are all in trouble. All of us. We are at a cross-road in human history. In November 2023 the UK government will host a global summit on futuristic “Frontier AI” at Bletchley Park in South East England.

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Education01 Oct 2023

AI and the Pursuit of Real Intelligence

AI is now influential in the way we learn and understand new things. The challenge for schools is how to infuse AI to permit a new way of teaching to take shape.

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Education01 Oct 2023

Artificial Hallucinations and AI-generated Plagiarism

AI has reimagined films, used the voices of deceased musicians to create new tracks, and can now make the sound of a brand “liquid”. Using AI, we can now create a patentable “sonic identity” for any product or service.

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Economy01 Oct 2023

Development Databases and Peripherality

Conceptual fuzziness persists around the idea of intra-metropolitan and post-industrial peripheries like Tower Hamlets in East London, and Swedish Northern peripheries.

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Technology01 Sept 2023

The Earth and Green AI

Computing gives rise to two forms of CO2 emissions. The environmental costs of computation, the carbon footprint of AI, and the associated greenhouse gas emissions remain persistent problems.

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Technology02 Oct 2020

COVID-19 in a Dutch Diseased Economy

What a constantly low oil price does to oil-rich countries is similar to what a long bitter winter does to the people of Yakutsk in Siberia. It makes them ill. Particularly when economies do not nurture the development o

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