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I’ve launched an early project page for Emerging AI Adoption and Distributed Expertise in the Asia-Pacific. dangnguyen.digital/distribut…
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Excited to be giving back to the Chevening alumni network with an upcoming online talk for colleagues at the British Embassy Hanoi and the British Consulate-General in Ho Chi Minh City on 1 July.
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We’ll be discussing how institutions can approach AI beyond the hype: practically, responsibly, and with better judgement about where it genuinely adds value.
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With thanks to Khang Nguyen, Regulatory Reforms Attache, for organising the session.
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My thoughts: The dominant AI debate treats cognition as a capacity to be augmented. Neuroscience reframes cognition as a vulnerable ecology to be maintained.
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But both risk individualising what is actually infrastructural: the organisation of work, attention, care, sleep, stress, platforms, and institutions.
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Better title would be: “AI is unpopular because people can tell they are being reorganised around systems they did not meaningfully choose.”
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Or sharper: “AI backlash is not about fear of technology. It is about distrust of institutions forcing adoption without accountability.”
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AI is not just “coming for jobs” or “making fake images.” It is being embedded into email, search, HR, welfare, classrooms, diplomacy, policing, banking, healthcare, media production, and administration. The question is not simply “Is AI good or bad?”
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The question is: Who gets to use AI to make decisions about whom, under what constraints, with what accountability, and at whose expense?
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