I don’t think we could do this here. Needs a strong ‘top down’ advocate.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/china-wants-legal-sector-to-be-ai-powered-by-2025/

China wants legal sector to be AI-powered by 2025

China wants its judicial sector to be supported by an artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure that must be in place by 2025. The directive aims to drive integration of AI with judicial work and enhance legal services.

The country's highest court said all courts were required to implement a "competent" AI system in three years, according to a report by state-owned newspaper China Daily, pointing to guidelines released by the Supreme People's Court.

So how did we let it get out of control?

https://www.bespacific.com/social-media-seen-as-mostly-good-for-democracy-across-many-nations-but-u-s-is-a-major-outlier/

Social Media Seen as Mostly Good for Democracy Across Many Nations, But U.S. is a Major Outlier

“As people across the globe have increasingly turned to Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and other platforms to get their news and express their opinions, the sphere of social media has become a new public space for discussing – and often arguing bitterly – about political and social issues. And in the mind of many analysts, social media is one of the major reasons for the declining health of democracy in nations around the world. However, as a new Pew Research Center survey of 19 advanced economies shows, ordinary citizens see social media as both a constructive and destructive component of political life, and overall most believe it has actually had a positive impact on democracy. Across the countries polled, a median of 57% say social media has been more of a good thing for their democracy, with 35% saying it is has been a bad thing. There are substantial cross-national differences on this question, however, and the United States is a clear outlier: Just 34% of U.S. adults think social media has been good for democracy, while 64% say it has had a bad impact. In fact, the U.S. is an outlier on a number of measures, with larger shares of Americans seeing social media as divisive…”

(Related) Good for democracy does not mean popular with all governments.

https://www.bespacific.com/tracking-social-media-bans/

Tracking Social Media Bans

Center for Data Innovation: “Researchers at Surfshark, a cybersecurity company based in the Netherlands, have created a dataset tracking governments that have imposed restrictions on Internet service or social media companies from 2015 to the present. For each restriction, the dataset contains the dates, duration, affected population, available context, and notes on the restricted platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, Telegram, or Whatsapp. The dataset also lists local restrictions in India and disputed territory Jammu and Kashmir, as well as instances of miscellaneous outages or restrictions, such as telecommunications disruptions in Ukraine.”

Always interesting to see what changes. (What happened to Amazon?)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-best-managed-companies-2022-11670630632?mod=djemalertNEWS

Microsoft Tops the Best-Managed Companies of 2022

The technology sector’s grip on the top spots in the annual Management Top 250 ranking slipped this year.

Microsoft Corp. held its ground, ranking No. 1 in this measure of the best-run companies in the U.S. for the third straight year. But unlike last year, when tech companies took the first five spots in the ranking, this year’s top five include General Motors Co. at No. 4 and Whirlpool Corp. at No. 5.

… Amazon stayed in the top 10, but slipped to eighth from second and recorded the biggest decline in overall score of any company in this year’s Top 250. Meta posted the fourth-largest decline in overall score in the group and dropped from No. 31 in last year’s ranking to No. 130 this year.