UNESCO Forum invited me as a speaker to share my thoughts on the Covid-19 crisis. The pandemic has sparked fundamental ethical debates. Think of the terrifying reports from hospitals in Italy in Spring 2020. Intensive care units were overrun with patients. There were not enough ventilators. And suddenly we asked ourselves: What is the value…
Wie wichtig ist unsere Privatsphäre? Was bedeutet Freiwilligkeit? Und wie können wir solidarisch sein? Die Einführung von Contact-Tracing-Apps wirft grosse Fragen auf. Florian Wüstholz von der WOZ lud mich zusammen mit dem Innovationsethiker Johan Rochel zu einem kontroversen Gespräch ein.
Facial recognition is flawed—but should we reject it because it’s inaccurate, or because it’s immoral? This post argues why moral arguments matter more than statistics when it comes to protecting our faces, our privacy, and our civil rights.
Environmental sustainability is one of the most promising domains to deploy ‘AI for Good’. The environment is an excellent use case for collecting and analyzing data that help us to better understand and address key environmental challenges. In contrast to the use of AI in ‘human settings’, you typically don’t run into problems of privacy…
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.
Die Klimajugend hat einen langfristigen Horizont – das hat sie sinnigerweise mit den Pensionskassen gemeinsam. Wer in Firmen investiert, die den Klimawandel befördern, setzt den Wert der Renten mutwillig herab.
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…
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…
Als regelmässige Zuhörerin bei Paneldiskussionen zu ESG wurde mir bewusst, dass institutionellen Investoren oftmals jegliche Reflexion, Passion und Mission beim Thema ESG fehlt. Darüber schrieb IPE D.A.CH einen Artikel.
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…
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…
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…
