accountability
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Be careful, Karen
How I ‘distilled’ my most trusted mentor into an agentic AI skill – and what the science of human simulacra says about whether I should have At 8:54 p.m. on a Friday, I asked a machine a hard question about our foundation. The machine answered in the voice of Karen E. Watkins. Karen is the…
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You cannot send an AI agent to jail: the scariest quotes from the Agentic AI Summit in Berkeley
On 1 and 2 August 2026, close to five thousand people gathered at the University of California, Berkeley for the second Agentic AI Summit, hosted by the Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence. More than 1,500 companies and 250 universities were represented. The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) was there. Background: The agentic AI revolution: what does…
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Artificial intelligence for global health: a tragedy of the commons brewing in Geneva’s basement
In “The Machine in Geneva’s Basement”, Rifat Hossain sets the scene for the potential impact of artificial intelligence on the World Health Organization (WHO) with a story. A ministry official points a general-purpose assistant at WHO’s own open guidance library and has a serviceable national protocol before lunch. If this is possible, he asks, why…
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Artificial intelligence, accountability, and authenticity: knowledge production and power in global health crisis
I know and appreciate Joseph, a Kenyan health leader from Murang’a County, for years of diligent leadership and contributions as a Scholar of The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF). Recently, he began submitting AI-generated responses to Teach to Reach Questions that were meant to elicit narratives grounded in his personal experience. Seemingly unrelated to this, OpenAI just…
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Accountability in learning
What if you were the key internal resource person with learning expertise? What if you advocated, recommended, and prescribed low-volume, high-cost face-to-face training? What if your advocacy was so successful that global partners invested hundreds of millions of dollars in what you prescribed – even in the absence of any standard to determine the return…
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