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I’ve launched an early project page for Emerging AI Adoption and Distributed Expertise in the Asia-Pacific.
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Looking forward to presenting my research on phone farming, informal automation, and AI adoption across the Asia-Pacific to the UC Berkeley AI Leadership Accelerator cohort tomorrow.
Drawing on my fieldwork in Southeast Asia, I'll explore how different forms of expertise shape the ways technological systems are adopted, adapted, and put to work—and why implementing AI requires us to think beyond technology procurement to the organisation of work itself.
Many thanks to the Berkeley Professional Education team for the invitation.
exec-ed.berkeley.edu/ai-lead…
Woke up to a lovely note from a friend and mentor back in Melbourne about an essay I wrote last year. One of those unexpected pleasures of putting words into the world. Thought I'd share it again.
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I’ll be in Bangkok next month for my first @asist_org Annual Meeting. If you’re around, do say hello!
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Interesting commentary: "Beyond the Bot Farm: How AI Agents Are Changing Influence Operations"
cetas.turing.ac.uk/publicati…
Establishing that change requires comparison with existing operational systems, rather than only with repetitive posting bots.
A thoughtful write-up from ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute of my recent talk, ‘Between Empires: Vietnam’s AI Ambitions and the Limits of the US–China Frame’.
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The discussion ranged across semiconductors, cloud and compute infrastructure, Open RAN, export controls, and the possibilities and limits of technological autonomy.