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  • Nachhaltige Anlagen: Impact, Regulierung und Greenwashing

    Nachhaltige Anlagen: Impact, Regulierung und Greenwashing

    Es ist gut, dass Regulatoren das Thema Nachhaltige Anlagen aufgreifen. Allerdings ist es weder machbar noch wünschenswert, Nachhaltigkeit im Finanzbereich allein über Regulierung voranzutreiben. Anleger sollen nicht einfach blind auf gesetzliche Vorgaben vertrauen. Nachhaltigkeit liegt immer auch in der Verantwortung des Einzelnen. Yova hat mich interviewt.

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  • digitalization and ethics: a simple outline of foundations

    digitalization and ethics: a simple outline of foundations

    It shouldn’t take a scandal of the dimensions achieved by Facebook/ Cambridge Analytica to make it clear that we must not use technology blindly without asking ourselves some ethical questions, but incidents like these certainly help to raise awareness on an ever broader scale. Yet, despite an increasing amount of articles calling for integrating ethics…

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  • Why AI really needs social scientists

    Why AI really needs social scientists

    OpenAI states that in order to assure a rigorous design and implementation of this experiment, they need social scientists from a variety of disciplines. The title immediately caught my attention given that the kind of “AI ethics” I am dealing with hinges on an interdisciplinary approach to AI. So, I sat down and spent a…

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  • Algorithmic decision-making and social division

    Algorithmic decision-making and social division

    Reading a report on “Discrimination, Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Decision-Making”, I wondered to what degree algorithmic decision-making could serve to further exacerbate discrimination in already deeply divided societies. If we want AI in general and algorithmic decision-making in particular to flourish and to contribute to the common good rather than promote or exacerbate division, we…

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  • What makes AI ethicists the top hire for companies to succeed?

    What makes AI ethicists the top hire for companies to succeed?

    KPMG ranked „AI ethicist“ as one of the „top 5 AI hires companies need to succeed in 2019“. That’s good news for an ‘old business ethicist’ like me. However, there is no common understanding whether we need AI ethicists in the first place, and whether creating such a profile inevitably leads to „machinewashing“. I address…

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  • The costs of lowering social standards

    The costs of lowering social standards

    In 2014 Chiquita paid their workers in Honduras private health insurance which cost them a total of 1 million USD per year. Quite a lot of money for a company close to bankruptcy. A few weeks ago they wanted to lower the level of health care services. As a result, workers went on strike for…

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