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  • Podcasts – my thoughts on ethics on air

    Podcasts – my thoughts on ethics on air

    Hosts from all over the world invite me to share my thoughts on ethics, artificial intelligence, data protection, sustainability or my personal career. Podcasts are a great opportunity to present my views and convictions in a structured and understandable manner. Every single one of these conversations has been an eye-opener for myself as well.

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  • Cryptocurrencies and ESG? Mission impossible

    Cryptocurrencies and ESG? Mission impossible

    Cryptocurrencies are booming; many of them are based on extremely energy-intensive mining processes. At the same time, we are under pressure to drastically reduce global emissions consumption, keyword ESG. These two trends are not compatible.

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  • On teaching AI & ethics

    On teaching AI & ethics

    The Montreal AI Ethics Institute interviewed me, along with my ForHumanity colleagues Merve Hickok and Ryan Carrier, about our thoughts on teaching AI and ethics. I recommend keeping AI ethics as applied as possible and inspiring people to think about what that means for their own work experience.

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  • Is there business ethics in Clubhouse?

    Is there business ethics in Clubhouse?

    What can AI ethics learn from business ethics? What’s the ethics of Clubhouse, if any? Is the Robinhood app undermining free will? And how can tech companies create an ethical business culture? Listen to my thoughts in this interview.

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  • Rainwater Harvesting in Bangladesh

    Rainwater Harvesting in Bangladesh

    In 2017 I visited various NGO projects in Bangladesh and India in my role at the time as a board member of the Buchi Foundation. Upon return to Switzerland I wrote a piece on one of the projects together with Md Abu Hena Mostofa Kamal, who was field coordinator of HELVETAS at the time. The…

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  • Getting to the root of food waste in bananas

    Getting to the root of food waste in bananas

    The food waste of bananas created by consumers is only the tip of the iceberg. Even more waste is created at the farm level, where up to 40% of bananas are put to waste. The high percentage of waste at farm level puts an additional strain on the cost/income ratio of farmers.

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  • TedX Zürich: «AI – freedom within, freedom without»

    TedX Zürich: «AI – freedom within, freedom without»

    AI frees us from having to solve complex problems ourselves, but does it also deprive us of the ability to think for ourselves? In my TedX speech I reflect on the ambiguous role AI plays for our freedom. Due to the pandemic, my speech was recorded in a huge, empty, pitch-black TV studio in Zurich.…

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