Fandi Chen

In this spirit of fraternity, hope and caution, we call upon your leadership to uphold the following principles and red lines to foster dialogue and reflection on how AI can best serve our entire human family: Human life and dignity: AI must never be developed or used in ways that threaten, diminish, or disqualify human life, dignity, or fundamental rights. Human intelligence – our capacity for wisdom, moral reasoning, and orientation toward truth and beauty – must never be devalued by artificial processing, however sophisticated. AI must be used as a tool, not an authority: AI must remain under human control. Building uncontrollable systems or over-delegating decisions is morally unacceptable and must be legally prohibited. Therefore, development of superintelligence (as mentioned above) AI technologies should not be allowed until there is broad scientific consensus that it will be done safely and controllably, and there is clear and broad public consent. Accountability: only humans have moral and legal agency and AI systems are and must remain legal objects, never subjects. Responsibility and liability reside with developers, vendors, companies, deployers, users, institutes, and governments. AI cannot be granted legal personhood or “rights”. Life-and-death decisions: AI systems must never be allowed to make life or death decisions, especially in military applications during armed conflict or peacetime, law enforcement, border control, healthcare or judicial decisions.

Independent testing and adequate risk assessment must be required before deployment and throughout the entire lifecycle. Stewardship: Governments, corporations, and anyone else should not weaponize AI for any kind of domination, illegal wars of aggression, coercion, manipulation, social scoring, or unwarranted mass surveillance. Responsible design: AI should be designed and independently evaluated to avoid unintentional and catastrophic effects on humans and society, for example through design giving rise to deception, delusion, addiction, or loss of autonomy. No AI monopoly: the benefits of AI – economic, medical, scientific, social – should not be monopolized. No Human Devaluation: design and deployment of AI should make humans flourish in their chosen pursuits, not render humanity redundant, disenfranchised, devalued or replaceable. Ecological responsibility: our use of AI must not endanger our planet and ecosystems. Its vast demands for energy, water, and rare minerals must be managed responsibly and sustainably across the whole supply chain. No irresponsible global competition: We must avoid an irresponsible race between corporations and countries towards ever more powerful AI.

I was part of a working group on AI and Fraternity assembled by the Vatican. We met in Rome and worked on this over two days. I am happy to share the result of that intense effort: a Declaration we presented to the Pope and other government authorities

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Actually the above tweet (what do you call a bluesky post?) is having a lack of class consciousness. It was.. a capitalist oppression.

Death of four-year-old in Indonesia due to extreme worm infection sparks online outrage A live roundworm had emerged from her nose after she was admitted to hospital. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

I cried for half an hour reading this news www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia...

Hidup di Indonesia (untuk kalangan menengah ke atas) bener-bener enak banget. Mau gak repot bersihin kosan? Order cleaning service via kliknclean bisa book same-day. Kamar bisa dijagain sama penjaga kosan dan kunci bisa dititipin kalau mau bepergian selama kosan dibersihin.

I wish I could do more. I know I could do more. But the psychological exhaustion is so overwhelming that I can’t even think clearly, let alone analyse all these situations.

And this is coming from someone with a postgrad degree in social science.

I’m just a regular corporate worker with dreams of becoming a scholar in tech policy. But watching the resurgence of dwifungsi TNI feels like suffocating in hopelessness.

After grinding through a 5-day workweek, I barely have the energy to engage beyond reposting on social media.

#KaburAjaDulu is a transcendental form of resistance.

If you ever visit Jakarta (south area), come to Tribe Kitchen. All menus are god-tier level of good.

Gosh, I freaking love Abba.

One crucial aspect often missing in EA/AI safety forum discussions is the impact of AI on climate change. AI systems are power-hungry and energy-intensive, consuming significant amounts of water and fossil fuel-based energy. Extensive research on this topic can be found in the field of “Critical/AI”

Kishore Mahbubani radicalised me.

Me each time watching Indonesian news on TV and newspaper.

Currently listenjng to Sabda/Cania podcast, however not sure how should I take them seriously (they were talking about economics) when they failed to keep Zenius afloat.

One thing that prevented me from finishing Andy Weir's books is the type of humour: too slapstick & too American - not what I expected from a sci-fi books about intergalactic space travels.

Reaching a point where I intentionally mispronounce my name for the sake of correct spelling.

"Hi, I'm Fen-dee" (while crying inside 🥲)

"Let justice flow like a river, and righteousness like an unfailing stream."

Masyarakat Indonesia makin cerdas.

Baru di pemilu kali ini akhirnya gue melihat banyak yang niat membandingkan visi misi/program antar kandidat capres.

Link:
drive.google.com/file/d/1gr3i...

Semalam, Gibran ditunjuk jadi tim pemenangan Ganjar. Pagi ini, Gibran diumumkan jadi Cawapres Prabowo.

I should post on Bluesky more often. Twitter's timeline is horrible this past few weeks.

The world is at its ugliest state today.

Dan kita bisa lihat hasilnya, seorang politisi yang gak ragu untuk kompromi.

Ia justru terseret ke arus kekuasaan dan ikut korup. Lihat aja gimana KPK dilemahkan di rezim Jokowi. Pukulan besar yang mematikan buat demokrasi dan semangat memberantas korupsi.

Mungkin jawabannya bukan di kompromi.

Kalau terlalu banyak koar-koar, atau kaku dalam melawan mafia, akan dimusuhi rezim, dan sirna harapan untuk mencalonkan diri lagi.

Lebih baik kompromi dan buta keadaan daripada dimandulkan secara politik.

Padahal realitanya udah ada politisi yang kompromi begini, beliau bernama Jokowi.

Argumen aneh dari teman-teman Indonesia kalau diajak ngobrol soal politik:

Argumennya adalah, kita perlu sosok yang bisa menyusup ke lingkaran elit dan mengubah dari dalam, dan ini butuh banyak kompromi. Karena kalau terlalu idealis, bakal rentan dicopot dan gagal bawa perubahan.

Humans are never one dimensional creature and more people should understand that.

Hai sayang

I also want a Peking duck. And a ramen. On top of a Nasi Padang.

The urge of eating chicken nuggets vs. being nazified by a healthy eating lifestyle.

Hi! As an award-winning, New York Times bestselling author, and a professional writer of 30+ years, let me remind you of this today:

If you write, you're a writer.

No other qualification necessary or needed. You write, you're a writer. Do it as it suits you. Have fun if you can.

Enjoy your day!