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Read later Summary: A recent WEF report called "Ethics by Design" reinforces problematic misconceptions about AI ethics. Heres where I think the report went wrong - and my own personal 25 point list for avoiding AI project speed bumps. I recently delved into a December 2020 WEF report, Ethics by Design: An organizational approach to responsibile use of technology. Unfortunately, this white paper underscores the numerous flaws in the current approach to AI ethics Ive been critiquing on diginomi...

Monday, 8 March 2021 14.00 - 15.00 Zurich (CET) Iris Bohnet, the Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government, is the Academic Dean of Harvard Kennedy School. She is a behavioral economist, combining insights from economics and psychology to improve decision-making in organizations and society, often with a gender or cross-cultural perspective. Her most recent research examines behavioral design to de-bias how we live, learn and work. She is the author of the award-winning book What Work...

By Nora Delaney January 27, 2021 THIS PAST YEAR HAS ILLUMINATED the fragility and failures of work in new ways. The coronavirus pandemic resulted in layoffs and furloughs for millions around the world. Some have lost their jobs in struggling or shifting industries and don’t have the skills to explore other fields. Many essential workers—from health aides to grocery clerks—have been forced to make grim trade-offs between personal health and financial security. Unpredicta...

Fight For Fairness The Minister for Women and Equalities, Liz Truss, sets out the Governments new approach to tackling inequality across the UK. From: 17 December 2020 (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered) No matter your skin colour, sexuality, religion or anything else, the United Kingdom is one of the best places in the world to live. The British story has been driven from its earliest days by the desire for liberty, agency, and fairness. It is the notion that in Britain...