Sam Brown

Responsible Innovator. Facilitator & Coach. Change & Tech Business Strategist. Co-Founder @consequentialri & Trustee @UpperNorLibHub. I think in post-it notes.

[Sam Brown @SamCatBrown]

This week be ace for anyone who cares about tech and direct community-led democracy!

[Sam Brown @SamCatBrown]

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[Ian Hogarth @soundboy]

1/ One of the most significant research papers of the last year is the Toolformer paper. It provides evidence that "Language Models [e.g. GPT-4] Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools" https://t.co/766FHZ8vbL

[Sam Brown @SamCatBrown]

As always @rachelcoldicutt says it best!

[Sam Brown @SamCatBrown]

I felt this in my soul.

[Sam Brown @SamCatBrown]

@cmcd_phd Good idea, love the creativity! So long as you frame it as a listening excersice and have a plan for what might surface...

[Sam Brown @SamCatBrown]

@anne_e_currie @HertfordshireCS @cori_crider This is why one of my benevolently challenging questions to developers early on is: and what if everyone used this?

[Sam Brown @SamCatBrown]

Loved this panel and the focus on bringing ethics into the ways business operate rather than as a purely product problem!

[ODI Members @ODIHQmembers]

Will #dataethics ever be part of an organisations DNA?

At #ODISummit2021, our @I_am_LisaAllen was joined by @SamCatBrown, @JenRodvold, @BricenoLinda & @DrRESmith to explore how organisations can put data ethics into practice

➡️ https://t.co/x9idPjHyrK https://t.co/x9idPjHyrK

[Sam Brown @SamCatBrown]

Absolute bang on thread

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

THREAD 🧵 BBC images used for abrupt climate change heatwave reporting this week

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Mass extinction by 2100 - 2300 looms?

Relax.

[Sam Brown @SamCatBrown]

This is a brilliant little course by Zebra company Etrify that helps small businesses get their head around net-zero and what they can do immediately to bring down their emmissions. Recommend:

https://t.co/pH7iETJ5SK

[Sam Brown @SamCatBrown]

This is breaking my brain on so many levels. Speaks to the use and the limits of ethics boards, but also the sheer techno-optimism and opportunism of this idea...

https://t.co/KOlSN5dJKn

[Sam Brown @SamCatBrown]

@rachelcoldicutt Yes yes yes to this convo; we talk abt this in the Zebra community a lot. I'm really into the idea of cohort funding - an initial core investment in orgs exploring a new space in different ways, then some kind of profit sharing model with flow of resources and ideas built in.

[Sam Brown @SamCatBrown]

@rachelcoldicutt @doteveryone And people on the ground need quick and fast ways to ask themselves questions about consequences relevant to their survival

[Sam Brown @SamCatBrown]

@rachelcoldicutt @doteveryone You're absolutely right, bad title, but that was what I was trying to say; the world is changing and there will only be more examples of people on the ground in impossible situations adapting, but original designs will probably still be done from places of norm and privilege

[Sam Brown @SamCatBrown]

@petite_a @JoannaLansdowne @CTCAsWeAge @DrFuraha_Asani @TonyBhajam @consequentialri Puts a smile on my face 🥰

[Sam Brown @SamCatBrown]

@rachelcoldicutt @doteveryone But your points on battlefield adaptions and ingenuity are well taken, and conditions like this will probably only increase with climate disasters and other scenarios where the norms of design aren't relevant. I wonder if it's an 'extreme scenarios' version that's needed?

[Sam Brown @SamCatBrown]

@rachelcoldicutt @doteveryone Thanks for this very thoughtful tweet @rachelcoldicutt, sorry for the delayed response was on a twitter hiatus. The question of 'who by' terrifies me, I wouldn't like to see aggressors being able to better understand and mitigate consequences to themselves.

[Jennifer Riggins @jkriggins]

💙💛How can you support colleagues going through hell in a war zone? My latest for @TheNewStack gave me a chance to look to the helpers to learn what teammates in #Ukraine are actually asking for right now.

With so much to be done, ask first. Then share.
https://t.co/jw6MfHirkW

[Sam Brown @SamCatBrown]

@anjali28 @rachelcoldicutt @chicanocyborg @dearsarah @cfiesler @AishatuGwadabe @cmcd_phd @cori_crider @ruchowdh Love the work @ChaynHQ is doing on this!