Ten thoughts on what I'm calling "Future of Governance Studies." Eager to hear your own. 1/ The Constitution exists to protect individual liberty, impose republican political processes, and advance the general welfare. Deliberation, representation, and accountability are core mechanisms for realizing those ends. AI can arguably improve each of those tasks. But should it? If so, how? When? And subject to which constraints? 2/ AI is already altering those processes. It's shaping elections, analyzing legislation, and serving up news that informs how folks vote. These early signs of AI-informed governance should invite more than merely incremental thinking. 3/ The scholars best positioned to lead that thinking are trapped in fields designed to analyze governance as it exists. Nobody built a field to ask whether what we inherited is adequate to where we're headed. Too few scholars have the incentives and interdiscipinary support to take on what may seem like radical questions. 4/ More prospective questions about republican governance with AGI falls between disciplines. They commonly go unasked or, minimally, under-analyzed. Future of Governance Studies would exist to ask it. 5/ Its premise: republican governance rests on first principles. Representation. Accountability. Deliberation. Dispersed power. The dignity of the governed. Those principles don't change when the mechanisms for honoring them must. But how must / should / can AI alter those mechanisms? 6/ When AI-based systems allocate benefits, deny licenses, draft regulatory language, and plan infrastructure projects — the tasks of accountability and deliberation become complicated or at least undergo a transformation. We've got to study such questions. 7/ If we do not get ahead of these questions, we risk missing out on the full potential of AI to further constitutional values while also risking AI leading to anti-constitutional outcomes. On the latter point, inadequate attention to this topic may result in power migrating toward systems too complex to understand, institutions never designed for democratic control, authority accumulating precisely because it's too technical to contest. 8/ AI can make the republic more responsive than the Founders ever imagined. Citizens selecting tools that encode their values. Legislators confronting consequences before votes via digital twins and extensive simulation. Agencies measured by what they actually produce, not what they claim to. 9/ None of those improvements will happen by default. It requires frameworks. Doctrine. Institutional imagination. That scholarly infrastructure doesn't exist yet. 10/ The Founders were anticipatory. They built for a future they couldn't fully see. That's the tradition worth continuing. This generation's work is figuring out what self-governance requires when governance itself is being transformed.

Abstract submission closes soon for our Computational Complexity of Decision Making Workshop! Join us in Melbourne 19 - 21 Nov for interdiscipinary discussion of the information processing demands on cognition and decision-making. go.unimelb.edu.au/vcc8

Fantastic to meet in Denmark to discuss and plan future European interdiscipinary R&I opportunities for anal cancer🇩🇰. @GarmSpindler @MarianneGuren @Pier_Franco_MD @profevasegelov sheela rao. #biology #radiotherapy #chemotherapy #data #trials #toxicity #inequalities #patients

#PhD Applications invited by @maxplanckpress Institute for Meteorology & @unihh for the #interdiscipinary program 🔍 International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling (IMPRS-ESM)! 🌎 🌐mpimet.mpg.de/en/career/impr… 📅 15.9.24 @DAADIndia @DAAD_Germany @ResearchGermany

CrimSL PhD student Camille Hazzard is a member of a new interdiscipinary @TorontoSRI working group exploring #trust in human-#machinelearning interaction. Learn more about this research:

#throwback #summerschoolasschool 2018 with #seminars #workshops #lectures #performances #study #tours, school #film program and #exhibitions by #artists #writers and #scholars... Stay tuned for SSAS2024, August 5-17 #Kosovo #Prishitina #interdiscipinary #eduaction #contemporary

#throwback: A Glimpse into the first edition of SSAS2015, exploring and responding to the pressing challenges of our time through #art #education and collaboration... stay tuned for #summerschoolasschool 2024, August 5 - 17, #Kosovo #contempoarary #interdiscipinary #exhibition

"Mental states are not static. A mental state does not exist as an isolated event, independent of the other states before or after it. Mental states are dynamic." in Transition Dynamics Shape Mental State Concepts Interesting article analyzing transition states. At the same time, it's a bit shocking that cognitive scientists at top research institutions need to discover that mental states are dynamic. Is that actually novel in this field? I reached out the contact on the paper, Dr. Thorton, to check in and see as there is some much rich intersectionality, it would be a shame not to be interdiscipinary. psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d… #neuroscience #cognitivescience #neuroscience #psychoanalysis #psychodynamic

มหาวิทยาลัยซึคุบะ (筑波大学) เป็นสถาบันการศึกษาที่ตั้งอยู่ในเมืองซึคุบะ (Tsukuba) จังหวัดอิบารากิ (Ibaraki) ซึ่งเป็นที่รู้จักกันในฐานะ “เมืองวิทยาศาสตร์ซึคุบะ” (Tsukuba Science City) จึงทำให้ผู้ที่สนใจด้านวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยีสนใจเรียนต่อที่นี่ . 🧬 ด้วยความที่เป็นมหา’ลัยในเมืองวิทย์ การเรียนการสอนจึงเน้นการศึกษาแบบสหวิทยาการ (Interdiscipinary Education) เปิดกว้างให้น้องๆ ได้คิดวิเคราะห์ ตั้งคำถามพร้อมเรียนรู้ไปกับหลักสูตรพิเศษที่เน้นผลักดันวิทยาศาสตร์ควบคู่ไปกับด้านวัฒนธรรม ผ่านกลุ่มสาขาวิชาหลัก เช่น วิทยาศาสตร์ เทคโนโลยี วิศวกรรมศาสตร์ คณิตศาสตร์ แพทยศาสตร์ พลศึกษา ทั้งนี้ยังมีหลักสูตรที่เปิดสอนเป็นภาษาอังกฤษ (English Program) ไว้ให้นักศึกษาต่างชาติอีกด้วย tsukuba.ac.jp/

🖥️Welcome to Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a global movement against #cyberthreats🤖! Read about our #interdiscipinary Digital Trust & Security theme to learn about #cybersecurity research at @OfficialUoM 🔎: digitalfutures.manchester.ac… @UoM_CDTS @DanielGDresner @ProfNickLord

What a great morning spent talking about trust, communication, and connecting to values at the @NCStateCALS Food Animal Innovation Summit! Looking forward to what's next from this interdiscipinary group of scholars and industry leaders. #scicomm #agcomm

#SLT ultrasound meets #respiratory #diaphragm #abdominal ultrasound at #PACTALS2023 led by @nensdoc @radboudumc A truely #interdiscipinary #international affair. Thank you to @scian_ for bringing us all together in #Malaysia 🌍

Existential positive psychology: A new science based on the ancient wisdom of Yin-Yang dialectics “Yin and yang, male and female, strong and weak, rigid and tender, heaven and earth, light and darkness, thunder and lightning, cold and warmth, good and evil…the interplay of opposite principles constitutes the universe.” – Confucius The Yin-Yang symbol represents the essence of existential positive psychology (EPP or PP2.0) perfectly. It captures the three main existential truths of wellbeing and human flourishing: (1) Positive psychology is incomplete by focusing only on the positive (Yang) side, because it is only half of the circle, and the happy side also contains the seed of suffering, which can suddenly become the dark side (Wong et al., 2022 ). (2) To experience wholeness and inner harmony, one needs to navigate a dynamic and dialectic balance between opposites. Thus, sustainable happiness and wellbeing can only emerge through integrating the positive psychology of happiness (Yang) and the existential psychology of suffering (Yin), Thus, the synthesis of duality is the implicit unity or non-duality of Existential Positive Psychology (PP2.0; Wong, 2023; Wong et al., 2021). (3) To create an international positive psychology of wellbeing and global flourishing, one cannot focus on WEIRD psychology (Wong & Cowden, 2022; Wong & Tweed, 2021). EPP or PP2.0 is inherently multicultural, because it seeks indiginous expressions of existential universals. My dependence on the ancient Asian wisdom of Taoism and Confuscism represents my attempt to integrate East and West. In view of the above, the paradigm shift towards EPP is unavoidable and necessary, because it captues how nature works in harmony and how human beings can achieve wholeness, balance and harmony. This new paradigm moves positive psychology beyond the materialistic world view and the mechanistic account of human behaviors towards a more complete account of wellbeing. We invite the new generations of psychologists to join us and develop the new science of EPP to make this world better for individuals and society in all cultures. EPP is the positive psychology for all seasons and for all people, especially the disadvantaged suffering masses. (Image from Rhys, 2023) References Rhys, D. (2023, March 13). The real meaning behind the Chinese Yin-Yang Symbol. Symbolsage. symbolsage.com/yin-yang-symb… Wong, P. T. P. (2023). Spiritual-existential wellbeing (SEW): The faith-hope-love model of mental health and total wellbeing. International Journal of Existential Positive Psychology, 12(1). meaning.ca/.../spiritual-exi… Wong, P. T. P., & Cowden, R. G. (2022). Accelerating the science and practice of psychology beyond WEIRD biases: Enriching the landscape through Asian psychology. Frontiers in Psychology. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1… Wong, P. T. P., Cowden, R. G., Mayer, C.-H., & Bowers, V. L. (2022). Shifting the paradigm of positive psychology: Toward an existential positive psychology of wellbeing. In A. H. Kemp (Ed.), Broadening the scope of wellbeing science: Multidisciplinary and interdiscipinary perspectives on human flourishing and wellbeing (pp. 13-27). Palgrave Macmillan. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18… Wong, P. T. P., Mayer, C.-H., & Arslan, G. (2021). Existential Positive Psychology (PP2.0) and the New Science of Flourishing Through Suffering [Editorial]. Frontiers. frontiersin.org/.../fpsyg.20… Wong, P. T. P., & Tweed, R. (2021). Positive psychology in North America. In E. C. Chang, C. A. Downey, H. Yang, I. Zettler, & M. Muyan (Eds.), The international handbook of positive psychology: A global perspective on the science of positive human existence. New York, NY: Springer. (Partially supported by the research grant on Virtue, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life from the John Templeton Foundation in support of the humble approach to positive psychology.)

「科学と社会ーInterdiscipinaryを超えてTransdisciplinaryへー」という題名で、科学と社会の関わりの観点から、ご自身の研究経歴や国際学術会議（#ISC）の取り組み、社会とのつながりを意識して異分野との連携プロジェクトを推進されてきたことなど広範にわたるお話でした。 #JST #SATREPS

5/ The project also pioneered Bob's work on Cappadocia methodologically, combining incisive architectural analysis with landscape archaeology, written sources and material culture to create richly interdiscipinary social history.

"What's My Research?" Interdiscipinary seminars at @UOPacific sponsored by the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs scholarlycommons.pacific.edu…

With the #EUGlobalHealthStrategy due to be unveiled tomorrow, @LERUnews emphasises the vital role of research, education and training in tackling health crises. #globalhealth is relevant to all people, and complex, multifaceted issues need interdiscipinary teams to address them!

Very delighted to host @supportuw board member and 3-time Big Ten Champion track star Elzie Higginbottom for an overview of WID and the interdiscipinary science we pursue. @jo44atWID, faculty, staff, & students at WID thank the Higginbottom family for coming out in the elements.

📢 We are hiring! We are looking for a BioImage Analyst specialist to join our interdiscipinary team @institut_curie #Paris. Interested in bioimage analyses and quantitative biology of epithelial morphogenesis? Join us and apply or spread the news and RT!

📢 We are hiring! 3y fully funded postdoc position open in our interdiscipinary team working on Drosophila epithelial morphogenesis @institut_cuire #Paris. Want to do live imaging, (opto)genetics and quantitative biology? Join us and apply or spread the news and RT!