Ben Moskowitz

(Cross-posted here: https://innovation.consumerreports.org/conscious-commerce-building-an-ai-economy-that-works-for-people/) A quiet switch just flipped in the economy.

(cross-posted here: https://innovation.consumerreports.org/building-consumer-agency/) Agentic AI has profound implications for every part of society.

(cross-posted here: https://innovation.consumerreports.org/engineering-loyalty-by-design-in-agentic-systems/) From managing personal data to facilitating complex transactions, AI agents will be acting on behalf of users in new and interesting ways.

(cross-posted here: https://innovation.consumerreports.org/reflections-on-two-years-of-operating-an-authorized-agent-service-and-launching-a-paid-upgrade/) When the consumer internet was getting built back in the 1990s, privacy wasn’t part of the design.

(Cross-posted here: https://innovation.consumerreports.org/why-are-we-experimenting-with-generative-ai/) Today we launched an invite-only beta of AskCR, an experimental chatbot that helps people get to CR’s trusted information faster.

Twenty nineteen.

2018—just the facts.

Twenty seventeen: Donald’s first year.

My 100% unironic take: Dwayne Johnson, the former WWE superstar known as The Rock, should run for president of the United States of America.

I wrote a piece for Quartz Ideas on irony and tragedy of Hillary Clinton, architect of the internet freedom agenda, and the prospects of a “splinternet”: The open internet, she suggested, could help open up closed societies and support the “peace and secu…