Doc Searls is the former editor-in-chief of Linux Journal, where he was on the masthead for 24 years. During that time he did much to establish open source as a Thing, earning a Google-O'Reilly Open Source prize for Best Communicator in 2005. In 2006 he became a fellow with Harvard's Berkman Klein Center and started ProjectVRM, which is all about increasing personal agency in networked markets, and which informed his 2012 book The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge. He also co-authored The Cluetrain Manifesto in 1999, which has been a hot topic ever since. And he sees personal AI as required approach to making many long-held dreams of cyber-utopians such as himself come true.

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Panel: AI Thought Leaders

Recap the mornings learnings with a panel of AI thought leaders.

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Personal vs. Personalized AI

Your AI should be as personal as your pants, your car, and your PC. It should be yours and not a suction-cup on the tentacle of a corporate giant. We don't have that yet, but we will, And when we get it, the greenfield will be infinitely large—unless we settle for the personalized kind. Doc will explain the difference and how we can make sure personal AI wins.

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Personal Empowerment and Agency at Scale

According to Sam Altman, that's what OpenAI promises. Problem is, it can't deliver, because OpenAI is for AI in 2024 what IBM was for personal computers in 1974: still a mainframe company. As individuals, we know more about what we need from personal AI than any of the AI giants of today can guess at. And that's what Doc will talk about.

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