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John C. Havens

@johnchavens.bsky.social

Author, Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines (2016). Founding ED, The IEEE AI Ethics Initiative. Global Director, IEEE Planet Positive 2030. Former actor, current musician, writer, and Dad.

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John C. Havens @johnchavens.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I assume this event may have already happened but I'd love to be involved if it hasn't or you redo it. I'd love to see how our tech future involves faith, where this means multiple faith-based backgrounds focused on pragmatic caregiving and holistic, equitable action. Then the tech supports that.

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John C. Havens @johnchavens.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

And...found it. Got up early and the coffee didn't kick in yet. Thanks again.

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John C. Havens @johnchavens.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Thanks for this. Can you add the link? Sorry if I missed it.

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John C. Havens @johnchavens.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

As a reminder that AI Agents in terms of the orgs making them are largely about hype, as always check out the amazing @garymarcus.bsky.social - garymarcus.substack.com/p/ai-agents-...

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AI Agents: Hype versus Reality, redux

The contrast couldn’t be starker

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John C. Havens @johnchavens.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

@nathanielphilip.bsky.social CANNOT wait for your new album.

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John C. Havens @johnchavens.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Good to know. :)

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John C. Havens @johnchavens.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Thank you, Kathy!

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Kathy Baxter @baxterkb.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

ICYMI: Check out the @ieeesa.bsky.social #PlanetPositive2030 publication " #Sustainability by Design"! 🌍 This was a 2 yr labor of love 💚 & I'm proud to have contributed to the Guiding Principles chapter! @johnchavens.bsky.social sagroups.ieee.org/planetpositi...

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John C. Havens @johnchavens.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

www.linkedin.com/posts/johnch... As I've said for a few years now, "AGI" is a faith based belief, and where any basic claims can't be proven about the results of a product, service or system whose makers claim it is AGI, then AGI is bad religion. Highly reco this paper, re: AGI accountability.

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John C. Havens on LinkedIn: Thank you to Dr. Timnit Gebru and Dr. Émile P. Torres for their paper: The… | 12 comments

Thank you to Dr. Timnit Gebru and Dr. Émile P. Torres for their paper: The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general… | 12 comments on LinkedIn

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John C. Havens @johnchavens.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I was on Twitter since 2007 and was at SXSW when it launched. So many positive memories. So many amazing connections. So sad to watch it get Elonized. Looking forward to this new community and journey.

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John C. Havens @johnchavens.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I've been watching Twitter die for too long. Thanks to the efforts of freeourfeeds.com for the inspiration to be among people who want open dialogue and discourse versus doom scrolling, ads, and harmful fanatical flotsam.

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Free Our Feeds

Let's take social media away from billionaire capture.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/10/2023

Earth’s warmest months on record redefined summer this year: Children at camps stayed inside. People worked and played outside late at night. Some considered moving to escape the worst effects. To many Americans, it felt like a climate inflection point. nyti.ms/3PCdmBq

Lifeguards and beachgoers are seen on a hazy, mostly empty beach in the Bronx as smoke from wildfires in Canada inundated the New York City area in June. A headline reads: "Why Summers May Never Be the Same." Photo by Gregg Vigliotti for The New York Times.

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John C. Havens @johnchavens.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Very excited for my first post!! Who should I follow as someone who has been in the AI ethics space since 2013? Or in the sustainability space for just a few years? Or as a blues musician? All thoughts welcome and hi to this community. Thanks for letting me join.

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