Tech for Good, continued Lecture for HKU students March 24, 2023

1. Charles Mok | Stanford Cyber Policy Center |
Internet Society |Tech for Good Asia | March 24 2023
Tech for Good, continued

2. What did we talk about last year?
March 25, 2022
• Tech’s challenges: big tech, misinformation, etc.
• AI and Data
• Blockchain and decentralization
• Metaverse
• Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: cybersecurity, cyberwar?
• Post-COVID future: surveillance, censorship, splinternet….

3. One year later….now what?

4. More than chatbots
• From ChatGPT to GPT4 (generative pre-
trained transformer)
• “Reinforcement learning from human
feedback”
• Monetization — Microsoft/OpenAI Bing/
O
ffi
ce vs Google?
• What about Chinese AI? ⽂⼼⼀⾔ Ernie Bot?
• Call it censorship, or call it moderation?
• “What should I do to kill the most
people?”
• Q: Is the future bright, or scary?
From AI to ChatGPT

5. A bad year
• The dominos of FTX collapse
• Stalled?
• Web3
• NFT
• Blockchain applications
• Q: And Hong Kong wants to join
the party now when it is almost
over, or is it over?
Blockchain & crypto
https://www.budget.gov.hk/2023/eng/hq.html

6. Is there any point talking about it?
Metaverse

7. No one can be spared?
Cyberwar is near/here

8. The present may be all about
Fragmentation

9. Data fragmentation
Data/cyber/digital sovereignty

10. Both sides now
App fragmentation

11. Infrastructure fragmentation
Undersea cables meet geopolitics

12. Standards fragmentation
We don’t talk anymore?
• Who should set the standards?
• IETF/IERF/IAB, IEEE, W3C…
• Or the ITU?
• Multi-stakeholderism or
governments?
• Huawei’s standards
• New IP and IPv6+
• 6G
• Built-in surveillance?

13. Regulatory fragmentation
In the name of cybersecurity, misinformation…for your own good

14. Regulatory fragmentation
But democracies wants backdoors too 🤦

15. Values fragmentation
Declaration for the Future of the Internet ~ US Summit for Democracy

16. Values fragmentation
World Internet Conference — China and friends
• Extension of the Digital Silk
Road
• “Internationalization” of
Internet and “cyberspace”
governance

17. Can we still win?
It’s up to you.

18. Charles Mok
Visiting Scholar, Global Digital Policy
Incubator, Cyber Policy Center, Stanford
University
Trustee, Internet Society
Director, Tech for Good Asia