Disclosure As A Movement - A Critique

 

To my now likely former readership:

I will endeavor to produce blog items for your consideration, given how dense the current popular discourse seems to be. That density needs filtration, and focus.

My role as Executive Director now occupies 80% of my professional time (and 90% of the personal), with the rest devoted to research and thinking that needs to underwrite my work at what is becoming a leading UAP organization, focused, strictly, on science and scholarship, and the necessary foundations of both.

We are in process of developing our institutional research agenda, and that is, naturally, informed by my own thinking. But it is collaborative: our Research Director, a brilliant and capable data scientist in his own right, will work to produce this agenda with me. There is a lot going on, on many levels. We are all quite busy.

Now, for my first venture I offer a piece where to the incipient "Disclosure" movement, I demur. Quite firmly.

I will write these pieces for the Society's blog, and supply you with links here.

This piece reflects one of my first attempts publicly to involve AI in my work. My readers know that my writing can drift into the baroque, obscuring, sometimes (maybe often?) the thought that I wish to convey and the theses I wish to defend. An increasingly common tool now in research, I am starting my own journey trying to use it, effectively and responsibly. I would like to reflect more specifically on this subject, especially on how AI is affecting the inner structure of my own thinking (to which I refer in my Disclosure piece), and what the governance here should look like (and I've had some fruitful albeit brief discussions with Ravi Kopparapu of NASA on precisely this topic). But now I want to jump to it.

Here is my new piece, draft form, on Disclosure - The Movement.

Comments greatly appreciated.

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