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Charles Mok looks at the impacts of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain, and the metaverse. He discusses both benefits and concerns, such as privacy issues with facial recognition, mounting ethical concerns with the industrialization of AI, and debates around decentralization. He also examines implications of the Ukraine conflict, including hacker activity and big tech's response, as well as what the future internet may look like in regards to issues like social credit, censorship, and online freedom.

Charles Mok | GDPi, Stanford | Tech for Good Asia | March 25 2022
Tech for Good?
A look at tech in the real world — the good, the bad, and the
uncertain

Tech is good, right?
Google 
2000-2015: “Don’t be evil” 
2015: “Do the right thing”?
2011: Arab Spring

Case #1: Artificial Intelligence and Data
• Policy concerns:

• Privacy issues, including facial recognition

• Algorithmic regulations

• Becoming social credit

• Data sovereignty

• Ethical issues e.g. warfare

• US-China competition

• China 14th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development 中华⼈⺠共
和国国⺠经济和社会发展第⼗四个五年规划和2035年远景⽬标纲要

• Final report of National Security Commission on AI

• Ref: 2022 AI Index, Institute for Human-centered AI, Stanford  
University

• Industrialisation of AI and mounting ethical concerns

Case #2: Blockchain and decentralisation
• Blockchain

• Cryptocurrency

• NFT

• CBDC - central bank digital currency

• Ref: Digital Currencies: The US, China, And The World At A Crossroads,  
Hoover Institution

• DAO — decentralized autonomous organization

• What’s really Web3?

• Decentralized, or not really?

• What’s beyond the hype?

Case 3: Metaverse
• What is a metaverse?

• No, it’s not a multi-verse

• Social media + games + AR + VR + NFT -
regulations?

• Just another hype?

• Yes, China will regulate

• Internet Information Service Deep Synthesis
Management Provisions (Draft for Comment) –
Jan. 2022 (DigiChina translation) 
互联⽹信息服务深度合成管理规定（征求意⻅
稿）

The Ukraine revelation
• Hackers and cyberwar

• Big tech exit Russia

• Meanwhile, TikTok, Hikvision…

• Remove .ru DNS?

• Clearview AI: Facial  
recognition of Russian  
soldiers

What will the future Internet be like?
• Post-COVID implications

• Social credit

• The Splinternet

• Surveillance and censorship

• A free, open, secure and trusted
Internet no more? Freedom on the Net 2021 
https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2021/global-drive-control-big-tech

Charles Mok

Visiting Scholar, Global Digital Policy
Incubator, Cyber Policy Center, Stanford
University

Director, Tech for Good Asia

Twitter: @charlesmok  
Facebook: CharlesMokO
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1. Charles Mok | GDPi, Stanford | Tech for Good Asia | March 25 2022 Tech for Good? A look at tech in the real world — the good, the bad, and the uncertain

2. Tech is good, right? Google  2000-2015: “Don’t be evil”  2015: “Do the right thing”? 2011: Arab Spring

3. Tech’s bad rap…inside

4. …and outside

5. Case #1: Artificial Intelligence and Data • Policy concerns: • Privacy issues, including facial recognition • Algorithmic regulations • Becoming social credit • Data sovereignty • Ethical issues e.g. warfare • US-China competition • China 14th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development 中华⼈⺠共和国国⺠经济和社会发展第⼗四个五年规划和2035年远景⽬标纲要 • Final report of National Security Commission on AI • Ref: 2022 AI Index, Institute for Human-centered AI, Stanford   University • Industrialisation of AI and mounting ethical concerns 

6. Case #2: Blockchain and decentralisation • Blockchain • Cryptocurrency • NFT • CBDC - central bank digital currency • Ref: Digital Currencies: The US, China, And The World At A Crossroads,   Hoover Institution • DAO — decentralized autonomous organization • What’s really Web3? • Decentralized, or not really? • What’s beyond the hype?

7. Case 3: Metaverse • What is a metaverse? • No, it’s not a multi-verse • Social media + games + AR + VR + NFT - regulations? • Just another hype? • Yes, China will regulate • Internet Information Service Deep Synthesis Management Provisions (Draft for Comment) – Jan. 2022 (DigiChina translation)  互联⽹信息服务深度合成管理规定（征求意⻅稿）

8. The Ukraine revelation • Hackers and cyberwar • Big tech exit Russia • Meanwhile, TikTok, Hikvision… • Remove .ru DNS? • Clearview AI: Facial   recognition of Russian   soldiers

9. What will the future Internet be like? • Post-COVID implications • Social credit • The Splinternet • Surveillance and censorship • A free, open, secure and trusted Internet no more? Freedom on the Net 2021  https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2021/global-drive-control-big-tech

10.   Charles Mok Visiting Scholar, Global Digital Policy Incubator, Cyber Policy Center, Stanford University Director, Tech for Good Asia Twitter: @charlesmok   Facebook: CharlesMokO ffi ce  LInkedIn: charlesmok

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