Cortney Harding is an AI & VR Strategist and Speaker.
Her book The Spatial Race leads us to a compelling vision of the future and our present as well. The subtitle says it all : How to Prepare for Our Future in the Meta-Physical World. Cortney is an expert in helping businesses understand and use the power of artificial intelligence, spatial computing, and virtual reality. She has created AI-powered conversational avatars and virtual reality training scenarios around topics like child abuse, workplace exclusion, mental health, Black maternal mortality, and racial bias for very large global organizations. She leads workshops for Fortune 100 companies and universities on how to use AI and VR in education and training. She has won numerous awards for her work. Check out her web site in the sidebar.
Shorts (Videos)
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Key Points in the Conversation (audio podcast)
Enshittification from Cory Doctorow is what’s happening
The meta present with AI and VR used intentionally rather than integrated
Unbalanced and unfair in many parts of the world
Infrastructure and connectivity issues
Need to upskill and reskill workers to prepare for job displacement from automation and AI
Enhancement, experience, emotion, and ego
Virtual human avatars to conceptualize behavioral and relational training
Do avatars have legal rights? Ask Raph Koster and Brittan Heller
How do we upskill? How do we reskill?
Why do you say Spatial Race? What is the finish line?
Storytelling and building trust
Can AI threaten your job? Or your boss’s?
Guardrails for data privacy and ownership
What is data? What is root data and who owns it?
We need to learn critical human skills and problem solving
A major ethical challenge of solving trust gaps
Discover our first conversation in September 2024.
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Cortney’s company, builds and advises on groundbreaking VR, AR, and Metaverse applications
Cortney’s most recent articles on Forbes
What Every Worker Needs To Answer: What Is Your Non-Machine Premium
As The School Year Starts, We Need to Reimagine Learning in the AI Age
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