Stefaan G. Verhulst

  • Co-Founder of The Data Tank and Co-Founder and Chief Research and Development Officer of the Governance Laboratory (GovLab), New York University
Companies from more affluent regions have more computational power to access and work with data than other stakeholders in the data ecology. Imbalances such as this take on particular significance when data is repurposed. Caureem / Shutterstock

Beyond checking a box: how a social licence can help communities benefit from data reuse and AI

Individualised notions of consent for data use do little to help societies seeking to address collective health crises and other community needs.
In the city of London, security cameras can even be found in cemeteries. In 2021 the mayor’s office launched an effort to establish guidelines for research around emerging technology. Acabashi/Wikimedia

Debate: How to stop our cities from being turned into AI jungles

As states and nations struggle to regulate growing AI use, municipal authorities are often leading the way. An emerging paradigm known as AI Localism can help us better define the way forward.
Activists highlight some of the United Nations’ 17 sustainable development goals in Lima, Peru (February 20, 2017). Marco Carrasco/Wikipedia

A new intelligence paradigm: how the emerging use of technology can achieve sustainable development (if done responsibly)

A new report from the GovLab and the French Development Agency (AFD) examines how development practitioners are experimenting with emerging forms of technology to advance development goals.

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