Liv Erickson is the ecosystem development lead at Mozilla focusing on innovation in spatial computing and AI technologies, and they are the former director of the Mozilla Hubs team. They gave a presentation at the XR Access Symposium that they summarizes in their blog post on "Multidimensional computing accessibility in the age of XR and AI," and they also facilitated a break-out session on Spatial Computing, Data, and AI. I had a chance to catch up with them at the start of the second day to talk about their talk, highlights from the break-out group, and their other blog post exploring how "In the Era of Multi-Dimensional Computing, XR is the Future of Front-End; AI is the Future of Back-End." There is a lot of potential in the future of AI and personalized assistants for accessibility, but also how this intersects with the increased communication capacities and collaborative sensemaking potentials of spatial computing and immersive storytelling. Erikson suggests that perhaps we should think about AI as more as "Augmented Intelligence" rather than "Artificial Intelligence" as a semantic shift that contextualizes AI as a human-centered technology in the spirit of the 10 principles of in Mozilla's Manifesto with 4 addendums towards a healthy Internet. We explore all of that and more within this brief discussion.

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