I spoke on a Docent Institute webinar last night co-hosted by Iowa Illinois IEEE Section – R4 and IEEE Computer Society (Iowa-Illinois Chapter). The title of the talk is, “Navigating Cybersecurity and Systemic Risk in a Rapidly Advancing Technological Landscape”where I discussed #cybersecurity and #systemic_risk. Thanks to Binto George & Michael Umakor, who were co-hosts. Check out the video! You may find the video and slides here:
I was honored to be invited to give a presentation on November 14th in Rockford, IL for the Rock River Valley Section. The turnout was 30+ members and non-members. Click the image above for the PDF.
I think of us in some kind of twilight world as transformative AI looks more likely: things are about to change, and I don’t know if it’s about to get a lot darker or a lot brighter.
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It was a great honor to be asked to keynote Bloomcon this morning! Wish I could have been there in person. Despite the issues we had getting sound to work with Zoom, I ended my presentation on time. I’ll have to go in person next year!Link to my slides: https://johndjohnson.com/…/BloomCon.2022.JJOHNSON…
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