David Kapler

Where do you think trust is under strain?

If trust has been broken, if there's a negative feeling in the relationship, is it temporary?

Does it rise to any significance?

Does it actually matter?

Yeah.

Or again, to one of my other points, is it just rhetoric?

Because we're all professionals in our different disciplines.

We understand that relationships have been flow, personalities have a significant effect on these things.

And a lot of us are apolitical institutionalists, so we tend to see this all the way through.

But I feel that that's increasingly put to the test.

And that to me is a signal that I've detected here and in some other forums lately that gives me a bit of pause.

I'll have a paper coming out on this soon as well for ICDS.

What we've centered on in our analysis is this concept called trusted autonomy and really to encourage nations.

Now, it's written for an Estonian think tank, so a bit focused on Estonia, which is very digitized even in the national level within the government and a provision of public services.

And so the point we've made to them is AI will certainly accelerate things, but you should not substitute AI for human judgment across the board.

And bear in mind that the speed will also compress your ability, the latitude, the time that you have to deliberate, to check, to validate.

And if you cognitively surrender to the AI, if you outsource too much to the AI, it will go faster, but you may make the wrong decision faster.

So please pump the brakes a little bit, put the right guardrails on that system.

And I think that's not limited to intelligence applications.

I think that's just good government.