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BBNJ Clearing-House Mechanism Introduction The High Seas Treaty (BBNJ) just entered into force in January 2026 🌊 And here's what most people don't know: Its success depends on a Clearing-House Mechanism—a digital platform that will become the backbone for ocean governance beyond national jurisdiction. This is where ScubaVerse's Marine DPI work intersects with global treaty infrastructure. The BBNJ Clearing-House Mechanism (CHM) will: 🗂️ Register marine genetic resource activities 📊 Share environmental impact assessments 🤝 Enable capacity-building and technology transfer 🔗 Connect gene banks, databases, and research repositories But here's the challenge: #SIDS need the capacity to CONTRIBUTE to this system, not just consume from it. That's why our Marine Digital Twin platform (bbnjchm.com) is designed to feed SIDS-generated reef data directly into the CHM—ensuring island nations are DATA CREATORS in the treaty's implementation. Governance infrastructure only works when those most affected can actively participate. Learn more: bbnjchm.com #BBNJ #HighSeasTreaty #MarineDPI #SIDS #OceanGovernance #BlueEconomy #DigitalInfrastructure #UNOcean #ScubaVerse #ClearingHouseMechanism Joao Sousa Dr. Philbert Aaron Markus Krebsz The Human Ai Institute® High Seas Alliance

UN STI Forum Panel - IAAI/Glocha Side Event Earlier this month, I had the privilege of speaking at the UN STI Forum (Science, Technology & Innovation) 🇺🇳 As a UN delegate for IAAI/Glocha, I joined a panel discussing how digital public infrastructure can accelerate the Sustainable Development Goals—particularly for Small Island Developing States. The conversation focused on three critical questions: 1️⃣ How do we ensure SIDS aren't just "beneficiaries" of technology—but active co-creators? 🏝️ 2️⃣ What role does Marine DPI play in implementing treaties like BBNJ? 🌊 3️⃣ How can virtual tourism revenue fund climate resilience infrastructure? 🪸 My key message to the room: "#Governance must come before deployment. #DataSovereignty isn't optional—it's foundational. And AI should amplify local expertise, never replace it." Watch the full panel discussion on the UN website and check out my intervention here: https://lnkd.in/egf3kkMq Grateful to IAAI/ GloCha Global Challenges Action Network and Miroslav Polzer for creating space for these conversations, and to the delegates from 80+ member states who've shaped ScubaVerse's governance-first approach and Dr. Philbert Aaron for helping to lead on multilateral alignment. This is what multilateral collaboration looks like when #SIDS lead. #UnitedNations #STIForum #DigitalPublicInfrastructure #SIDS #MarineDPI #SDGs #BlueEconomy #OceanGovernance #BBNJ #IAAI #Glocha #ScubaVerse

📢 What Pope Leo XIV's New Encyclical Means for AI Risk Practitioners 👇 A comparison of the Enterprise-wide AI Risk Management® (EW-AiRM®) approach and framework with Magnifica Humanitas below. Prof. Divya Dwivedi The Holy See Holy See Mission Geneva RiskAI Benn Pople Mark Dougherty, CPA Dr. Bob Mark AI & Partners Michael Charles Borrelli Sean Musch OmniIndex Simon Bain FRSA Matt Bain Mpowa Ryan Lavelle https://lnkd.in/edhVDPan

Companies are hiring people back after AI failed. But they are doing it quietly, hoping we don't notice. 🤫 Whoops. Over the past two years, we witnessed a masterclass in corporate theater. Companies played to the crowd, joined the GenAI bandwagon, and announced massive layoffs. The narrative? "We are creating AI-driven efficiencies." The shareholders loved it, and stock prices pumped. But behind the scenes, the playbook was an illusion: 1. Hire an expensive management consulting firm. (get lots of cool slides) 2. Implement an AI pilot. (Cross that off the list) 3. Use AI as a strategic fig leaf to lay off workers. (It's just another layoff) 4. Issue a dazzling "AI-First" press release. (Do a victory lap) There was only one problem: The executives pushing this narrative didn't understand that Generative AI is non-deterministic. It is creative and variable. It is a terrible tool for rigid, 100% reliable automation. You couldn't replace a simple, repeatable process with it safely, let alone an entire human tier of workforce. Seriously, you couldn't replace a monkey with GPT. (No offense GPT because I love you) Fast forward to today, and The Great AI Layoff Boomerang is officially underway. The numbers don't lie: 55% of employers now openly regret their AI-driven layoffs due to quality degradation and lost institutional knowledge [1]. 68.3% of companies that cut staff due to AI have already begun quietly rehiring for those exact roles [2]. 52% of those organizations had to start rehiring within just 6 months because their operations began to break so quickly [2]. 75% of organizations found that these AI-driven layoffs actually ended up costing their bottom line rather than saving money [2]. We saw the cracks early on with companies like IBM and Klarna. But this isn't an isolated tech trend; it’s a systemic corporate correction impacting thousands of enterprises. Gartner projects that 50% of organizations that cut customer service staff due to AI will completely rehire for those functions by 2027 [3]. AI 2.0 will emerge and we will see a shift to augmentation and making work better, not just faster. We will get back to building, not dismantling. We will get back to viewing the enterprise as a value creation engine, not an ATM machine to extract short-term cash. The pendulum is swinging back. The rehires are happening. They just aren't holding press conferences for it this time. --- The trick with technology is to avoid spreading darkness at the speed of light Stephen Klein is Founder & CEO of Curiouser, building AI that augments people and encourages critical thinking. To try Alice or Looking-Glass visit us (link in comments) (visual courtesy of Gemini) Sources:[1] Forrester Research, "Predictions 2026: The Future of Work"[2] Careerminds / HRD Global Study (Feb 2026), polling 600 HR executives[3] Gartner Research, Customer Service & Support Forecast (Feb 2026) 

📢 Enterprise-wide AI Risk Management® (EW-AiRM®)- and implementation-focused article on the European Commission's High-risk AI systems classification guidelines👇 https://lnkd.in/eZvwA-aa

📢 Learn from some of the best in AI standardisation 👇 Adam Leon Smith DEng FBCS Enrico Panai

‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan Facility would require more power than entire state uses and suck up vast amount of water in drought-stricken area A plan to create one of the world’s largest datacenters, a gargantuan project spanning an area more than twice the size of Manhattan, has provoked a furious public backlash in Utah amid concerns over its vast energy use and impact upon the state’s stressed water supplies. The Stratos artificial intelligence datacenter footprint will cover more than 40,000 acres (62 sq miles) over three sites in Box Elder county in north-western Utah. The facility will require about 9GW of power, which is more than the entire state of Utah currently consumes, and suck up a significant amount of water in an area that has been hit by severe drought in recent years. Last week, the project was approved by the county’s commissioners, despite thousands of objections lodged by Utah residents. Environmentalists have warned that Stratos could imperil the Great Salt Lake ecosystem, including a critical migratory bird habitat, which is already under severe stress. The lake is shrinking due to water diverted for agriculture and the impact of the climate crisis, placing inhabitants of the nearby Salt Lake City at possible risk of toxic dust clouds as the lake bed dries up. “At a time when the Great Salt Lake is already in crisis, approving a project that will consume water and energy at this scale is irresponsible and dangerous,” said Franque Bains, director of the Sierra Club’s Utah chapter. “Utahns want to see the Great Salt Lake restored, not stripped.” The proposed project is backed by Kevin O’Leary, the venture capitalist who appears on the TV show Shark Tank and recently played a villainous tycoon in the movie Marty Supreme. O’Leary has claimed Stratos will deliver thousands of jobs and help the US compete with China in the burgeoning AI industry. “I don’t think there’s a bigger site in the world than this,” O’Leary told Fox News. “It shows the Chinese and the rest of the world we are not messing around, we are going to get this done, move it forward and provide the compute power to our AI companies that defend the country.” https://lnkd.in/e-eHg73R https://lnkd.in/exZgVH5a