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Joshua Harrison's avatar

Josh, this just came up in my feed. I like your strategy. I think the idea of treating AI development in the same way as any cradle to cradle designed product makes implicit sense (reduce, reuse, recycle, build for durability and maximal flexibility and parts interoperability) And decentralizing the toolset and giving ordinary non-technical civilians (ie me) some ability to work with these very powerful tools is going to be critical to break the economics of centralized, transaction based top down control. Josh

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Dykki Settle's avatar

Josh, I always appreciate and am deeply aligned with your language and framing. You are naturally several steps ahead of me where you are focused and I am not, but I always find that you are in the same direction and path I am taking myself, so I consistently find it easy and valuable to take up and align with your approaches and framing. By leapfrogging with each other into the future we can move farther and faster than we do alone.

This case is no different, especially for carrying forward our shared commitment to and passion for global and local technology autonomy and capabilities for all - removing all friction we can from equitable ubiquity of local perspectives and the powerful emergent innovation that can result. From my perspective, this language and strategy is a 'future-framing' of the fundamental values and opportunity of the open source approaches to strengthening and supporting global and local capabilities we have always aligned on for the opportunities and challenges of the age of AI. Please help lift my eyes higher if I am missing a key nuance in this understanding and interpretation.

If that resonates, I am excited and delighted to take up and amplify this language as a strong, future-facing position on the future of open source approaches and responsible AI-assisted 'vibe coding' (with full attribution of course!) I would love to join you and your collaborators in this work and support Medic to serve as an exemplar and living laboratory for these strategies and approaches. Building forward together will be important and valuable not only for the CHT Community, but also for our larger community of global health digital public goods and the larger multisectoral ecosystem of DPGs. I look forward to your presentation to the CHT Community tomorrow as a next step!

+@Andra - I would love to hear your thoughts here as well if you are comfortable sharing them -and from others in Medic and the CHT Community as you all read this post and comments. This is a strong and important way forward that we can all lean into, explore and support together.

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