Lessons From The Slave Trade And The Holocaust: How Should Today’s Executives Respond To Such Historical Transgressions?

Some multigenerational companies or their predecessors have committed acts in the past that would be anathema today – they invested in or owned slaves, for example, or they were complicit in crimes against humanity. How should today’s executives respond to such historical transgressions? Drawing on her recent book about the

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Big Data, Big Brother: Yesterday’s Fiction Is Today’s Reality

Welcome to a world where humans are constantly under surveillance. Where designer children are genetically selected, drones hover the skies, companies implant microchips in their employees, and artificial intelligence poses a direct challenge to our own. Big Data, Big Brother exposes just how closely today’s reality mirrors two of the

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Implications Of The Biases That Have Shaped Society In The Past (Or Shape It Today), On How AI Systems Work – Or Fail To Work Followed By Q&A

The datasets on which AI technologies are trained to carry out a task reflect society, and can contain the biases that were embedded in processes, relationships, or structures at the point of data collection. When this data is used to develop AI, the resulting systems reflect back the social and

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The Story Of Information: From Early Mesopotamian Civilization To Today’s World – What We Have & What We Left

“It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers. They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.” – Alan

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