The IDHUS Institute

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How Institutions Process Information
13
Nov

How Institutions Process Information

Every institution depends upon information. Governments collect statistics, monitor economic trends, evaluate public policies, receive citizen feedback, analyse legal developments and observe countless social, technological and environmental changes. Yet despite…
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Reform Is Not Automatically Learning
10
Nov

Reform Is Not Automatically Learning

Institutions often respond to failure by reforming themselves. Structures are redesigned, responsibilities are redistributed, procedures are rewritten, new units are created, reporting lines change and technologies are introduced, sometimes through…
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The Cognitive Architecture of Institutions
31
Oct

The Cognitive Architecture of Institutions

Every intelligent system, whether biological, technological or organisational, depends upon more than the simple accumulation of information. Intelligence emerges from the existence of an underlying architecture capable of receiving information,…
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The New Bottleneck May Be Trust
30
Oct

The New Bottleneck May Be Trust

When institutions first adopt artificial intelligence, attention naturally concentrates on technical capability. Can the system classify accurately enough? Can it produce useful forecasts? Can it summarise documents, detect anomalies or…
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