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The AI FundamentalistsThe AI FundamentalistsPrinciples, agents, and the chain of accountability in AI systemsDr. Michael Zargham provides a systems engineering perspective on AI agents, emphasizing accountability structures and the relationship between principals who deploy agents and the agents themselves. In this episode, he brings clarity to the often misunderstood concept of agents in AI by grounding them in established engineering principles rather than treating them as mysterious or elusive entities.Show highlights• Agents should be understood through the lens of the principal-agent relationship, with clear lines of accountability• True validation of AI systems means ensuring outcomes match intentions, not just optimizing loss functions• LLMs by the...2025-05-0846 minCoo-ee PodcastCoo-ee PodcastWhen Should Smart Speakers Speak Up? Exploring Proactive AI in ConversationsIn this episode of the Coo-ee Podcast, we dive into the research study May I Interrupt? Diverging Opinions on Proactive Smart Speakers, presented at the 3rd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces. This study examines how people feel about smart speakers that go beyond responding to commands and proactively initiate conversations. Through an online survey with 47 participants, researchers explored user reactions to eight different proactive interaction scenarios featuring a fictional assistant named “Jay.” The findings reveal that while proactive AI can be helpful, timing, context, and tone significantly impact user acceptance. Some interactions—like reminders about im...2025-02-0308 minCoo-ee PodcastCoo-ee PodcastBalancing Helpfulness and Privacy in Proactive Voice Assistants: The Proactivity DilemmaIn this episode of the Coo-ee Podcast, we dive into the study “Understanding Circumstances for Desirable Proactive Behaviour of Voice Assistants: The Proactivity Dilemma” by Nima Zargham, Leon Reicherts, Michael Bonfert, Sarah Theres Voelkel, Johannes Schoening, Rainer Malaka, and Yvonne Rogers. Published in the Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, the study explores how proactive voice assistants can offer support while avoiding intrusiveness, particularly in social and domestic settings. Through storyboards and interviews with participants, the researchers highlight the importance of context-awareness, user control, and sensitivity to social dynamics when designing these technologies. Th...2024-12-1708 minHumans On The LoopHumans On The Loop🕸️⛩️💻 213 - Amber Case & Michael Zargham on Entangled Technologies & Design As Governance✨ Subscribe and review at Apple Podcasts and/or Spotify. Unborn archaeologists thank you!This week I speak with two of the most thoughtful people I know in tech, cyborg anthropologist Amber Case and systems engineer Michael Zargham (Founder & CEO of BlockScience) — who work together on tools for building trust between tech users and tech companies at the Superset DAO and each contribute diverse value to society through myriad creative projects in their own right (like Amber’s totally fabulous music group Glo Torch!). Thanks to the generous invitation of Regen Foundation CEO Gregory Landua, I met Amber and Michae...2023-12-011h 11The Ownership EconomyThe Ownership EconomyEpisode 070 - OpenAI: An $85 Billion Dollar Governance Failure, and How it Could Have Been Anticipated, with Dr. Michael Zargham and Amber CaseOver the last 120 hours, a governance crisis the likes of which we may never see repeated happened at world-leading artificial intelligence company OpenAI, culminating in the firing (and rehiring!) of Sam Altman, with a tectonic shift in their governance in the space of a few days. In this episode we explore what led to this situation, how it could have been simulated ahead of time, and what you should do with your governance design if you’re thinking of starting a world-changing technology company, to ensure maximal flexibility and make governance an asset and not a liability. Jo...2023-11-2658 minweone 3Speak Podcastweone 3Speak PodcastTrusted Seed Spotlight: A common stack videohttps://3speak.tv/watch?v=weone/ttopolmmdd An interesting talk by Dr Michael Zargham ( BlockScience Founder ). Note: This video is a common stack video, that I found on youtube and is free to share and upload on any platform and app.2023-06-1800 minThe Blockchain SocialistThe Blockchain SocialistOTNS: How to Optimize for RealityMichael Zargham (@mZargham), the CEO of Block Science comes back on the show to help us continue to overthrow the ontological framework of network states from the perspective of complex systems engineering. During the discussion we talk about how network states don't optimize for reality, not confusing the map with the territory, and how an alternative to network states should handle infrastructures. Overthrowing the Network State (OTNS) is a series in collaboration with Blockchaingov where we critique The Network State  by Balaji Srinivasan while also pulling out the salvageable parts and concepts in discussion with a variety o...2023-03-261h 17Boundaryless Conversations PodcastBoundaryless Conversations PodcastS04 Ep. 07 Michael Zargham – Designing beyond the machine: Tokens, Blockchain & ContractsMichael Zargham, founder and CEO of BlockScience and Board Member of the Metagov Project, shares his views on how Blockchain and other emerging technologies are making new ways of organizing possible. Yet, Michael believes that, so far, we are not fully using the potential of these affordances to create something new. Smart contracts are becoming widespread, but does the relationship between crypto and organizing stop there? What’s next? Which new “non-familiar” possibilities of design will we see unlocked in the next few years? Michael describes how systems designers will need to be humble and leave space for sy...2023-01-1051 minSCRF InterviewsSCRF InterviewsComputer Aided Governance - Michael Zargham and Jeff Emmett of BlockScience (Ep. 18)Part 6 of our 7-part series with the team at @BlockScience features a conversation with Michael Zargham, founder and CEO of BlockScience, and Jeff Emmett, Communication Lead at BlockScience. They delve into a variety of areas, including:- The definition and role of “computer-aided governance” (CAG) in web3- How CAG compares to computer-aided tools for other disciplines- The ways that BlockScience utilizes CAG in its projects- The necessity of mapping the terrain before using CAG tools- The inherently political nature of #policy decisions that allocate resources- How CAG makes the...2022-12-0737 minSCRF InterviewsSCRF InterviewsFormal Methods in Complex System Design - Jamsheed Shorish and Michael Zargham of BlockScience (Ep. 16)Part 4 of our 7-part series with the team at BlockScience features a conversation with Senior Research Scientist Jamsheed Shorish and BlockScience Founder and CEO Dr. Michael Zargham. They delve into a variety of areas, including: Defining “formal methods”The need for validation and verificationGeneralized dynamical systems (GDS)The application of formal methods in system designJamsheed Shorish, Senior Research Scientist at BlockScienceWebsite: https://block.scienceTwitter: https://twitter.com/jshorishMichael Zargham, Founder and CEO at BlockScienceWebsite: https://block.scienceTwitter: https://twitter.com/mZar...2022-11-2353 minSCRF InterviewsSCRF InterviewsSCRF Interviews - Season 2 TrailerWelcome to Season #2 of SCRF Interviews, which returns Wed, Oct 26th. This season begins with a special episode recorded live from Bogota, discussing SafeDAO governance. We follow that with a 7-episode deep dive into the work of the BlockScience team who built an open-sourced cadCAD (complex adaptive dynamics Computer-Aided Design). For a glimpse into the season, we will feature: - SafeDAO Governance with John Governance Operator and Core Contributor at SafeDAO, and Renee Davis, the Founder of talentDAO. - Engineering Methodology with Matthew Barlin, the Lead Systems Engineer at BlockScience, and Jeff Emmett, the...2022-10-2002 minGreenPillGreenPillDesigning Pluralistic Political/Economic Spaces with Jeff Emmett & Michael Zargham of BlockScience | Green Pill #55✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨ https://availableon.com/greenpill  🟢 Get the GreenPilled Book 🟢 https://greenpill.party/  Apple Show Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greenpill/id1609313639  Spotify Show Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/0l6aXWC94dd0RA3tkKfxjd  ----- Designing Pluralistic Political/Economic Spaces with Jeff Emmett & Michael Zargham of BlockScience | Green Pill #55 On this episode Kevin chats with Jeff Emmett and Michael Zargham of BlockScience, an engineering, R&D, and analytics firm specializing in complex systems. In this episode...2022-10-2050 minThe Blockchain SocialistThe Blockchain SocialistAligning DAOs and CyberneticsFor this episode I spoke to Kelsie Nabben (@kelsiemvn), a qualitative researcher on resilience in decentralised technologies and governance at RMIT in Australia. She recently co-wrote a piece titled Aligning the concept of ‘Decentralized Autonomous Organization’ to Precedents in Cybernetics with Michael Zargham whom you may know from a previous episode. Kelsie also publishes on her Substack about  decentralised digital infrastructure, security, and society.During the interview we spoke about her previous work in one of the first crypto applications to do an ICO in Australia, her switch to academia to study decentralised systems more closely, and how c...2022-09-1155 min