Bill Tomlinson, Rebecca Black, Andrew Torrance, and I wrote a paper that was accepted to Springer Nature Journal, Scientific Reports, in which we compare the carbon emissions between AI systems and humans. What did we find? We discuss the benefits and drawbacks of AI, including potential job displacement and legal issues, while highlighting the lower…
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Blockpliance, Employment, History, Start Up
Blockpliance
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Blockpliance, is a pioneering start-up that I co-founded with Guillermo Fernandes . Guillermo comes from a private banking background and began working on the company in 2021. In the summer of 2022, I joined him as an engineer and advisor and proceeded to take the product to the next level with a team of ambitious…
Journal Papers
Analyzing the Sustainability of 28 ‘Blockchain for Good’ Projects via Affordances and Constraints
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A long stretch of research and writing with a great group of colleagues, Bill Tomlinson, Jens Boberg, Jocelyn Cranefield, David Johnstone, Markus Luczak-Roesch, Shreya Kapoor and myself has finally resulted in the publication of a new article article titled “Analyzing the Sustainability of 28 ‘Blockchain for Good’ Projects via Affordances and Constraints.” It has been…