It seems like 2020 has just started and it has already collected a series of crisis events: coronavirus outbreak, a surge in unemployment and a tremendous drop in the price of oil. A crisis is a sequence of unexpected events that are suddenly disrupting the status quo for an individual, a whole organization, a country […]
Article 4 of the Series on Ethics in Artificial Intelligence In the previous articles, I talked about the nature of human fears related to AI and discussed the potential impact of AI on the society. In this article I’m presenting a point of view on the approaches to AI regulation. They have been previously shared […]
December 2015… One year after “the idea” popped in. PocketConfidant is still not incorporated, has no technical team, no funding, some client interest and a prototype with the minimum possible functionality; however, PocketConfidant is making its first official trip to California. From Nice, to Paris, to Los Angeles, to San Francisco, and the Bay Area, […]
Article 3 of the Series on Ethics in Artificial Intelligence In the previous article, we talked about the nature of human fears in relation to artificial intelligence (AI). We also outlined two important themes to address in the upcoming challenges of the AI era: the societal, and decision-making aspects of AI systems. In our new […]
In 2017, PocketConfidant AI published two articles; the first to define coaching and the second to explain how a robot could be a coach. A few months later, Team PocketConfidant responded to APECS, the Association for Professional Executive Coaching & Supervision with an article on AI and Coaching. Energized by a passionate and committed team […]
New technologies are more and more evolving towards coaching the human being. A person provides data to a machine to empower himself or herself and we are all hungry for data about ourselves; in the end what technologies haven’t done yet is to provide the personalized follow-up programs that people can use in their daily […]
An article written with Dr Roy van den Brink-Budgen, Director at if…then ltd. This article is about Critical Thinking and Coaching. As PocketConfidant AI strives to build a technology to help individuals and organizations develop self-reflective skills, it seemed important for us to look at existing research and hear from a subject-matter expert to identify […]
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization. Mahatma Gandhi Diversity is at the very core of life on the planet. Look around you, how many species of trees do you see, how many different plants, animals, languages, cultures, music, cars, buildings, restaurants, clothes and… PEOPLE? […]
(Fourth and last part of a four-week series on the subject of resilience) Resilience is a frequently discussed in the fields of Education, Psychology, Personal Development, Health and Business today. Earlier we introduced this important concept to our readers and shared our thoughts on how it could be brought to millions of people around the […]
