Ethical Leadership and Governance

Algorithms reflect the societal biases already present in the systems they're automating, presenters argued at an artificial-intelligence symposium in New York.

Get the balance right between these two concepts, and your business can thrive.

A simple yet dramatic shift in the way we consider data may change everything.

Call it a sign of the times but digital ethics and privacy has been named as one of Gartner’s top ten strategic technology trends for 2019. That, my friends, is progress of a sort. Albeit, it also underlines how low certain tech industry practices have sunk that ethics and privacy is suddenly making a cutting-edge trend agenda, a couple of decades into the mainstream consumer Internet.

Technology and data have no ethics,” said Leonhard. “This is a fact. Technology doesn’t care about feelings or emotions or mysteries, because it’s code. We are conscious beings, we care about relationships, engagement with people, with emotions – all the things machines hate. Machines don’t like these things because they’re not binary."

This report outlines a set of principles for developing blockchain applications for the environment, and identifies the need for global platforms to incubate a responsible blockchain ecosystem.

“DATA SLAVERY.” Jennifer Lyn Morone, an American artist, thinks this is the state in which most people now live. To get free online services, she laments, they hand over intimate information to technology firms. “Personal data are much more valuable than you think,” she says.

Google and Facebook are easy scapegoats, but companies have been collecting, selling, and reusing your personal data for decades, and now that the public has finally noticed, it’s too late. The personal-data privacy war is long over, and you lost.

Cyber risk must now be viewed as an integral part of the overall enterprise risk management (ERM) framework for a board of directors and must be evaluated, documented and addressed/mitigated, according to the risk profile and economic realities of the company

Advocates who keep proving that CSR is good for the bottom line are wasting their time.

Any corporate purpose, however laudatory or noble that mission may be, must be accompanied by strong governance.

It’s time to think about how we can reduce our environmental “exhaust” through new digitally-sustainable business models and processes.

Advances in information technologies and AI are combining with advances in the biological sciences to create the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

The IT industry has been lagging in examining questions of ethics in technology. That has to change.

Paying with your data for "free'' services is much more expensive that most people realize.

Data ethics is not a subject that you would have expected to be a centerpiece of conversation among Chief Data Officers and senior business leaders in the recent past. However, times are changing.

Artificial intelligent technologies are complex data processing systems that pose several ethical challenges. We should consider the data intensity of these technologies and find solutions to the ethical implications in legislation, design and society in general.

Throughout the past couple of decades, I have identified a dozen reasons why data privacy protection brings many business values, and should not be brushed aside or minimized in importance.

VW’s emissions systems didn’t program themselves.

Why more chief executives are losing their jobs after scandals and corporate misconduct.

The internet giants depend on our data. A new relationship between us and them could deliver real value to society.

The US tech sector is not doing enough to build pathways for women--particularly women of color--in technology. What’s behind the gender gap, and what can tech companies do about it?

Contributing to society cannot be a side activity. Companies that use their core business to address environmental, social, and governance issues can create more value in the long term.

Businesses are best placed to help solve social and environmental issues, and those that do tend to do well for themselves.

Digitalization and sustainability are both powerful trends. What happens when they merge?