People are criticizing this leather-jacketed, American Dream poster-boy for all the wrong reasons. His failure to remain faithful to his wife is not nearly as immoral as his massive exploitation of Nvidia workers, nor his lack of concern for AI’s downsides.
Category: Development Issues
Development is at the very core of NGO existence. Joining discourses around development issues can help sharpen our perspectives on our Vision, Mission, Goals and Strategies (VMGS) and lead to the creation of more meaningful interventions.
Development Issues
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Racism in Hong Kong is More Than Casual
Racism in Hong Kong is more than skin deep; it is systemic and needs the sustained policy intervention of the government. A humanistic reorientation of the educational system is needed to strike at the roots of this social malady.
AI
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Towards A Principled NGO Stand on AI
Nonprofits should not remain nonchalant about AI’s potential and actual harm to the social sectors they have committed to serve. They can take baby-steps towards making a principled stand and lend their collective voice to making AI serve social justice rather than its opposite.
Development Issues
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The Futility of Fighting for Migrant Living Wage
What is more relevant is to question the very essence of labor migration and point to sending-governments’ culpability for their lack of political will in comprehensively developing their economies and creating viable jobs at home.
AI
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Age of Information or Age of Incapacitation?
The current generation is too steeped in online games and social media that they don’t bother to read books or long-form articles anymore, especially non-fiction and science-based ones. When they need to write something for school, they Google or rely on ChatGPT to do the job for them.
AI
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Confessions of an AI Skeptic
Investors are excited about AI for the biggest potential it holds: automation and labor cost-cutting. The prospect of increasing profits through workforce redundancy is always something that whips up bubble-making frenzy among venture capitalists.
Development Issues
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Filipinos Have Grit, Not Just Resilience
Resilience is often mistaken for grit, which focuses on long-term plans and goal attainment. The former delves on surviving the present, not on creating the future. One cannot even look at forward trajectories when preoccupied with the moment.