The Ethos of Artificial Intelligence: Using AI to Promote the Good Life While Avoiding Harm
The news is filled with warnings that artificial intelligence may ultimately doom humanity. The ethos of the tech leaders who are unleashing AI is questionable. This book offers some crucial public guidance for the safe use of AI.
Models, Metaphor and Meaning: How Models use Metaphor to Convey Meaning
This book looks at data modeling for information systems from the perspective of information theory, linguistics and semiotics. The book reviews Shannon’s Information theory and proposes a mystical side of data modeling. Excerpts from this book appear on the Business Rules Community at www.brcommunity.com.
Data Governance: Managing the Language and Meaning of your Business
This book reviews some process frameworks but will advocate for some simple changes that can be introduced very quickly. Changes like managing data models and giving visibility to the definitions collected by business analysts. The definitions in the project data models can jump start the terms in the business glossary.