Who Owns Ideas? – The Global Design Forum – Wednesday 11th June 2025

I forgot to add this talk, because I’m writing this 8 months later, and am sifting through the backlog. There’s actually a few talks I’ve forgotten to post, but at this rate, I’ll never catch up!
So anyway, just going to post the notes I made in real time:

Exactly.ai -  An 'Ethical ai.' -isn't that an oxymoron? You train your own model based on your own work. Your model is private; sharing is up to you.

A lot of people are already using it 'discreetly' despite some companies banning a.i. just because it's a wild west

Suddenly, all emails are eloquently written, etc. The genie is out of the bottle.
The tech is moving so fast, and the law is slow to catch up, or as in the UK, the law works for the thieves (i.e. the tech industry).

Absolutely great discussion and absolutely on point. Shame we never see these types of debates on mainstream news channels. It's a literal free for all, with tech companies stealing creative work on an industrial scale, before the law catches up with them, and consumers using a.i. like it's free candy.. everyone is just so excited by it.
The ethics are never discussed, let alone the carbon footprint.
It's just accepted that the genie is out of the bottle, and we as people must adapt to it, as opposed to the other way around!

Preventing a climate catastrophe is not compatible with the adoption of a.i.! But this again, is never discussed.

Everything is driven by capitalism, and getting the most for less. Corporations would rather pay less for good enough, rather than pay more for creativity. The consumer, with its increasingly short attention span, is also happy to consume content that is merely good enough.
We're creating a world full of slop!

Of all the panelists, the lawyer, and the architect were most positive about a.i.
The audience was mostly fatalistic.

The fundamental question is, do the benefits of a.i. outweigh the costs, on a long-term scale. We're at the very beginning of the journey.