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The Future of AI in the Philippines Is Being Decided Now
Noemi Dado of the Times has shared our work in AI regulation, let me tell you why this matters now. Her article made me pause. It captured ...
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The Hidden Complexity of Growing Up Online
The more I look around, the more I realize how digital our lives have become. From the moment I wake up and check my phone, I’m already part...
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AI Policy Is Broken and It’s Not Because of Technology
Most public policy is written from the top down. Experts gather in rooms far away from everyday life. Laws are drafted. Rules are announce...
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The Quiet Risks of Agentic AI, and Our Responsibility to Act Now
I have spent much of my professional life observing how technology reshapes institutions, work, and human behavior. Few developments, howeve...
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4e
4Es for Better AI Governance
AI governance has become one of the most crowded, and confusing, policy conversations of our time. Everywhere I look, well-intentioned act...
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ai
Changing the Cadence for AI
In the early days of ChatGPT adoption, we already reflected on the need to adopt a different cadence in discussing AI than in previous eras....
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How did the AI conversation in PH Congress start?
In 2023, I worked briefly with the office of Congressman Mark Go to bring AI to the Plenary in Congress. At that time, artificial intelligen...
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ai
Why AI Regulation Will Probably Kill AI Adoption in the Philippines If We’re Not Careful
Ann Cuisia’s op-ed should worry anyone who has ever tried to build something in this country. Not because she exaggerates the dangers of AI...
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The Philippines’ AI Roadmap Must Be Built on the Four E’s: Education, Engineering, Enforcement, and Ethics
As the Philippines revisits its long-delayed national AI roadmap, we find ourselves at a rare moment of opportunity. The first roadmap in 20...
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Copying the EU AI Act Would Be a Disaster for the Philippines
The Philippines has a long history of borrowing international regulatory frameworks, the Data Privacy Act drew heavily from the GDPR, and th...
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Why I Believe We Must Break the Stalemate on “Fake News”: Focus on the Paid Actors
At the recent committee hearing, I made a point I have been repeating for years: our national debate on “fake news” has been trapped in the ...
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