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Doug Belshaw
Doug Belshaw
@dajb@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp 13 hours ago

I've been reading Jorge Luis Borges' short stories recently.

One in particular about a lottery that quietly took over everything, and another involving a library where everything is available but nothing is findable, felt a bit too close to how AI is reshaping decision‑making, governance, and “optional” tools for nonprofits.

So I wrote about it 👇
https://blog.dougbelshaw.com/the-ai-lottery/

#AI #AIGovernance #FOSS #Nonprofits

Open Thinkering

The (AI) Lottery Is Already Running

I work with organisations that are trying to make the world a better place. Their starting point is and should be the following simple diagnostic question: Where do your decisions end and the algorithm's begin? Can you tell?
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LJ
LJ
@LJ@zirk.us  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

@dajb thank you for this. It really captured my unease with AI deployment & society's response to it.

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Doug Belshaw
Doug Belshaw
@dajb@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

@LJ Glad it resonated!

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Nick Meyne
Nick Meyne
@mutineer@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp 8 hours ago

"Where do your decisions end and the algorithm's begin? Can you tell?"
Good question. Better have an architecture and a (Wardley, for example) map to help answer that one.

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John Johnston
John Johnston
@johnjohnston@social.ds106.us  ·  activity timestamp 9 hours ago

@dajb I’ve been meaning to dig out labyrinths again. Just for fun, I had not thought of these parallels! Fascinating post.

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Doug Belshaw
Doug Belshaw
@dajb@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp 9 hours ago

@johnjohnston Thanks! It really made me think while I was on holiday!

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