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πŸ“An AI Philosophy and Cognitive Sovereignty Framework

✍🏽 New ground-breaking essay from Prof. Dr @Prof Naseem Naqvi MBE MBE FBBA, published in The #JBBA.

➑️ Key explorations:

βœ… Why cognitive sovereignty belongs on the national policy agenda alongside economic and data sovereignty

βœ… Why our national strategies are failing to protect faculties such as pre-observational judgement

βœ… What machines cannot do, and the coming scarcity of original thinkers and philosophers

βœ… Why the machines will eventually come to philosophers for the questions their own logic cannot answer

βœ… Why original writers, speakers, and thinkers will be indispensable in the age of synthetic prose

βœ… Why the next generation of universities will quietly divide in two, and why PhDs will matter again

βœ… The architecture of education, and why we are optimising for the wrong metric

βœ… Why pedigree cannot be synthesised. AI will not produce more philosophers. Only philosophers produce more philosophers.

⏩ The essay introduces a new concept:

Pre-observational Judgement

The capacity to decide what is worth noticing BEFORE any data exists. It is the oldest form of human intelligence, and the one most resistant to automation.

⛓️‍πŸ’₯ The essay also repositions blockchain as an epistemological tool.

Original thought is fragile. An economy that cannot reliably say who first said what will watch its best minds either give up or leave. AI produces plausible answers without origin. Blockchain records origin without distortion.

πŸ›οΈ A national AI policy without a national philosophy policy is half a strategy.


πŸ”— Link to the full essay in the comments.


#AI #Blockchain #Cognitive #Sovereignty #PreObservationalJudgement #EvidenceBasedBlockchain #JBBA #BBA #AIneedsBlockchain





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https://jbba.scholasticahq.com/article/160826-cognitive-sovereignty-and-pre-observational-judgement-a-research-agenda-and-policy-framework-to-safeguard-original-thought-in-the-age-of-machines