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The Wicked Nature of AGI

open access: yesLaw, Technology and Humans
Artificial general intelligence (AGI) represents an unprecedented ambition within the field of technology, aiming to create systems capable of matching or surpassing human abilities across multiple domains.
Yeliz Figen Doker
doaj   +1 more source

Problematizing ‘wickedness’: a critique of the wicked problems concept, from philosophy to practice

open access: yesPolicy & Society, 2019
The concept of ‘wicked problems’ is a major current in the fields of policy analysis and planning. However, the basis of the concept has been insufficiently examined. This re-examination of its conceptual basis explains the origins of the limitations and
Nick Turnbull, Robert Hoppe
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Perspectives on Climate Change in Education for Sustainability: Linking Concepts and Skills for a Practical Ecological Transition

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ‘Hard’ natural sciences have extensively been used to provide evidence that climate change is happening and climate action is needed. If the contribution of our economic activities to disturbing our climate systems is now largely accepted, the way in which we design and operationalise ‘climate action’—how we transition to more sustainable ...
Sandrine Simon
wiley   +1 more source

Systemic Governance From Below: Story Telling to Empower Access to the Commons Through Mapping and Modelling: A Mixed Methods Approach

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Access to forests, farming land and the Citarum river is limited in Tarumajaya; furthermore, many do not own their own housing and are dependent on the public and private landowners in the area. The region of Tarumajaya faces significant challenges in access to crucial resources such as forests, farming land and the Citarum river, leading to a
Rudolf Wirawan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leading with Purpose? New Language and Lenses for Considering Educational Purpose and Analysis of Purpose Statements in Australia, Singapore, Finland and Japan

open access: yesEducation Sciences
The purpose of education, viewed as a wicked problem, requires critical examination, particularly in the context of policy that may shape leadership in schools and systems.
Michael Theodor Murphy   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Marginalization and invasion of architects’ role on house projects: Institutional intervention inadequacy and super wicked problems

open access: yesFrontiers of Architectural Research, 2018
The design and construction of houses normally require an architect׳s input. However, architects are increasingly being marginalized in these projects, and their roles are constantly being invaded by others.
Samuel Frimpong, Ayirebi Dansoh
doaj   +1 more source

The History and Ideas of George Herbert Mead's Pragmatism and Its Relevance for Operational Research and Systems Thinkers

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT George Herbert Mead is an oft forgotten or ignored American philosopher who was one of the originators of pragmatism. Today, he is recognised as a creative thinker who has teased out knotty problems that others in the field had not realised were problems. Understanding Mead's analysis has been made difficult because he died prematurely without
Richard Ormerod
wiley   +1 more source

Leadership tools for wicked problems [PDF]

open access: yes
Leadership for the Greater Good is not easy to achieve. Many of the issues leaders face are so complex that they have been called ‘wicked problems’ – not in the sense of being evil, but because they seem almost intractable.
John Fien, Samuel Wilson
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Wicked problems: design approaches in complex health-care scenarios [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Against the backdrop of the UK’s dynamically changing population demographic, its National Health Service (NHS) is faced with a number of ‘wicked problems’, i.e. problems that are difficult to resolve and resistant to resolution.
Macdonald, Alastair
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Pragmatist Ethics and Climate Change [preprint] [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This chapter explores some features of pragmatic pluralism as an ethical perspective on climate change. It is inspired in part by Andrew Light’s work on climate diplomacy as U.S.
Fesmire, Steven
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