For AI to be regenerative, it must enable us to generate and preserve real wealth. It must promote and sustain community wellbeing, fairness, and sustainability, the fundamental values of the generative economy, and it must do so by design, through its normal functioning, and not as a regulatory compliance exercise or CSR/ESG afterthought.
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Degenerative innovation
Innovation is degenerative. It exploits and erodes our prosperity and health on the promise that success will repay the losses, a promise that is seldom if ever kept. So, what if our processes for innovation were regenerative, in the sense that they nourish and strengthen teams, organisations, communities and environment continuously, regardless of the outcome? What would this regenerative innovation process look like?
Before wage work
Regular full-time employment at a single job may seem like the natural way of things, but it is, in fact, a fairly recent phenomenon. For hundreds of years before 1800, work took multiple forms and had varied meanings, motivations and outcomes. Making money was just a part of it, and often not a very important part.
Matthew Moran 