Kategorie: csr

  • KI, Nachhaltigkeit und Ethik: grosse Fragen auch für kMu

    KI, Nachhaltigkeit und Ethik: grosse Fragen auch für kMu

    Im Gespräch mit Birgit Eschbach rede ich über Nachhaltigkeit, Verantwortung und Ethik: von Microsofts carbon-negativ Strategie, über die Emissionen von GPT-3, bis hin zur Relevanz dieser Themen für Standortförderungsorganisationen oder ein KMU im Rheinland.

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  • Nachhaltigkeit: von Daten zu Taten

    Nachhaltigkeit: von Daten zu Taten

    Auf ConnectaTV spreche ich mit Aileen Zumstein über den «Messwahn» in der Nachhaltigkeitsdebatte, über den «Rückzug in die Intuition», über low hanging fruit und Oberflächenkosmetik, sowie die Bedeutung von Prinzipien und Unvermeidlichkeit von Abwägungen.

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  • what makes Ethics in the Tech sector distinctive?

    what makes Ethics in the Tech sector distinctive?

    Kate O’Neill is a global thought leader, author, keynote speaker, strategic advisor, and „tech humanist“. We talked about connecting the dots between AI ethics, privacy, climate change, CSR, ESG, contact tracing, carbon offsetting and much more, including quite some laughter.

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  • Business is there to make life better. But How?

    Business is there to make life better. But How?

    As part of his series “Interviews with global leaders in the field of Artificial Intelligence” I spoke with Johan Steyn about AI ethics, privacy, contact tracing, buiness ethics, CSR, etc. – live from my kitchen table.

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  • AI and sustainability: a solution or part of the problem?

    AI and sustainability: a solution or part of the problem?

    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…

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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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