Dr. Lolly Mancey

It's for empowerment to understand what it is, how it works.

And I think it goes so far beyond that.

But also, isn't that a mindset?

Because aren't things changing all of the time?

You know, the idea that things are fixed.

It's never been the case.

20 years ago.

So it's got a tale.

If only we became aware of it then.

Well, I'd have to say I'm bang in the middle.

And to be honest, I've teetered towards the sides of the river a fair few times in terms of utopian, dystopian.

I'm bang in the middle because what I do see are pockets of things that make me excited, right?

Like sovereignty, you know, digital sovereignty, that makes me excited.

The idea that we would control our own digital, our own language model within Ireland, for example, rather than deferring to a tech company that has one running through a server in the United States.

Yeah, and the Irish people and the Irish government, we'd have a discussion about how that would work.

But they're building them in terms of small language models in indigenous communities all around the world, which is very exciting.

So the Yoruba people in Nigeria have their own one.

The Maori in New Zealand have their own one as well, with their own dialects, their own language and their own oral histories being built into it, which is very subversive and cool.

And it's based on the idea of the one story we tell is the hero's journey, right?

That, you know, we suffer adversity, we go on a journey, we succeed, we win.