{"id":39910,"date":"2024-03-03T10:14:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T16:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=39910"},"modified":"2024-03-03T10:14:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T16:14:59","slug":"that-was-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/03\/03\/that-was-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"That Was Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This leaves me uneasy &#8211; or someone just ran away with my foot. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2024\/02\/uaes-largest-company-ihc-appoints-ai-bot-board?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Business%20%20Tech%20Briefing%2002-28-2024&amp;utm_content=Business%20%20Tech%20Briefing%2002-28-2024+CID_108ccfbb6b008a458cf257d228a90c51&amp;utm_source=campmgr&amp;utm_term=UAEs%20largest%20firm%20IHC%20appoints%20AI%20bot%20to%20board\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From<\/a> <em><strong>AL-Monitor<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The United Arab Emirates\u2019 International Holding Company announced on Tuesday it appointed an AI-powered observer to its board, becoming the latest company to include an AI entity in its leadership and furthering the Gulf state\u2019s ambitions in the sector.<\/p>\n<p>The Abu Dhabi-based investment company, also known as IHC, said it appointed an \u201cAI Board Observer\u201d known as \u201cAiden Insight.\u201d The observer will perform data analysis, risk assessment, compliance monitoring and other tasks in support of the company. Aiden will attend IHC board meetings as an observer but will not have voting privileges. Aiden is powered by the Emirati AI firm G42 in collaboration with US tech giant Microsoft, IHC said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is from behind a paywall, and as I have chosen not to pay, that&#8217;s all I got.<\/p>\n<p>So what is going on here? A member of the board? Unless someone&#8217;s withholding information, no AI exhibits self-interest or self-awareness &#8211; and so no conscious thought by this board member. A stunt? A necessary legalism? <em><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/em> has nothing on it; on the other hand, other Arab news outlets do mention it.<\/p>\n<p>This is all so weird. I rather doubt I&#8217;m really this far out of touch, but maybe so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This leaves me uneasy &#8211; or someone just ran away with my foot. From AL-Monitor: The United Arab Emirates\u2019 International Holding Company announced on Tuesday it appointed an AI-powered observer to its board, becoming the latest company to include an AI entity in its leadership and furthering the Gulf state\u2019s \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/03\/03\/that-was-fast\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39910"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39913,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39910\/revisions\/39913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}