The Human Layer

So damn excited to drop this episode with Beth Rudden, CEO of Bast AI. @tayken & I poured a couple bourbons, fired up the /thehumanlayer mics in Denver and dove deep into Silicon Valley's black box approach to corporate AI, the dangers and possible solutions on the hyperlocal level.

Beyond AI's Blackbox: Building Technology That Serves Humanity https://www.buzzsprout.com/2460445/episodes/17294785

Beth's decades of IT and data science experience at IBM along with a background in cognitive sciences grounded our conversation in a beautiful place of humanistic exploration-- and caution. 

We explored many SHOULDs, how LLMs should be built in a transparent, non-extractive way and how everyday people should interact with them along with some solutions for the reality that these "shoulds" are not a given.

Edu • Crypto • Culture • Travel • Trust ✨ President, LEF | Co-founder @Trnsfrmtv | Steward @0xFW3 | Not all who wander are lost.

We meandered through multiple issues and solutions and one of the core takeaways was both surprising and inspiring-- an accessible solution we can begin implementing tomorrow. 

Libraries as the keepers of language models and librarians as the stewards of local information that taps into a broader network of knowledge that is global. A knowledge commons that begins with local, physical infrastructure every community in the US has-- a library.

 Our mission at The Human Layer is to create protocols for hyperlocal knowledge gardens to protect our collective wisdom during this time of transition. And we may just be starting at the local library.  

Here's the DYOR for you to dive deeper into the core themes and topics, along with some links and rabbit holes.   

Beyond AI's Blackbox: Research Gateway & Concept Map

Executive Producer /thehumanlayer | Founding member @journodao | 500RYT Yogi | Former Consensys, Fuel, @unlockprotocol| humanlayer.xyz

The Human Layer is more than a podcast, it's a living entity, a Knowledge Architecture System designed for the following:  

Signal > Integration > Collaboration  

Here are the supporting exploration docs co-created with Opus4 and me, using the transcript of this conversation and our carefully crafted prompts.   

I spend a few days prompting, absorbing, and editing so that our conversations can serve as the signal and our knowledge garden becomes the integration layer.   

Dialectic & Theme Generation: https://thehumanlayer.garden/The+Human+Layer/The+Human+Layer+Podcast/Season+One/Episode+5+-+Beyond+AI's+Blackbox-+Building+Technology+That+Serves+Humanity

The Great Data Heist: How Silicon Valley Colonized Human Consciousness https://thehumanlayer.garden/The+Human+Layer/Community+Building/The+Great+Data+Heist-+How+Silicon+Valley+Colonized+Human+Consciousness

Produced by DesertRat Productions: https://desertrat.media

We meandered through multiple issues and solutions and one of the core takeaways was both surprising and inspiring-- an accessible solution we can begin implementing tomorrow. 

Libraries as the keepers of language models and librarians as the stewards of local information that taps into a broader network of knowledge that is global. A knowledge commons that begins with local, physical infrastructure every community in the US has-- a library.

 Our mission at The Human Layer is to create protocols for hyperlocal knowledge gardens to protect our collective wisdom during this time of transition. And we may just be starting at the local library.  

Here's the DYOR for you to dive deeper into the core themes and topics, along with some links and rabbit holes.   

Beyond AI's Blackbox: Research Gateway & Concept Map
https://thehumanlayer.garden/The+Human+Layer/DYOR/EP5--+DYOR

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