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CES, Robotics & AI

Responsible AI: Utilizing Data Science by Francine Bennett

Prior to this, she worked in biotech, using AI to find medical treatments for rare diseases. She also co-founded a data science consultancy and is a founding trustee of DataKind UK, which helps British charities with data science support. We ask this question a lot at the Ada Lovelace Institute, which aims to make data AI work for people and society. How can investors better push for responsible AI? By asking questions about their investments and their possible futures – for this AI system, what does it look like to work brilliantly and be responsible?

Ava Patel
March 3, 2024

CES, Enterprise, Gadgets, Robotics & AI

“Developing Effective Solutions to AI Concerns: Policy Recommendations by Amba Kak”

Amba Kak is the executive director of the AI Now Institute, where she helps create policy recommendations to address AI concerns. She was also a senior AI advisor at the Federal Trade Commission and previously worked as a global policy advisor at Mozilla and a legal advisor to India’s telecom regulator on net-netruality. How do you navigate the challenges of the male-dominated tech industry and, by extension, the male-dominated AI industry? The tech industry, and AI in particular, remains overwhelmingly white and male and geographically concentrated in very wealthy urban bubbles. By exposing the power dynamics that the tech industry tries very hard to conceal.

Ava Patel
February 25, 2024

Enterprise

Exxon’s Temper Flares as Shareholders Exercise Their Rights

Top executives report to the CEO, the CEO answers to the board, and the board serves at the whim of the shareholders. On Sunday evening, the oil supermajor filed a lawsuit in federal court asking for permission to ignore a shareholder resolution at its next annual meeting. The new shareholder resolution calls on the oil company to reduce its Scope 3 emissions or those that result from the use of its products. Other shareholders tended to be deferential to management, letting them run their business as they saw fit. But as shareholder primacy took root in the public consciousness, more shareholders began to exercise their rights.