Episode 306 – The business challenges of he

Responding to prejudice in it

Much of the discussion focuses on the role of people in creating, regulating and responding to him. A particularly full of interaction is the transfer of human prejudices for supposedly objective technology. Hassan explains that while finding ways to mitigate the prejudice learned in the systems it is important and valuable, its disappearance is completely impossible. What is most important is the creation of a framework to respond to these prejudices through public politics and regulation.

Prejudice will always be there. I don’t think we can really remove it. I think what is most important for us is to think about how we can have an infrastructure, in terms of policies, regulations, discussions … that can actually help us deal with prejudice. They will happen. But when they happen, how can we treat it?

Youssif Hassan, Assistant Professor of Public Policy

Transparency

The panel explores the possibility of sustainable one, discussing the energy needed to strengthen it. Hassan affects communities directly affected by local construction of data centers and their skills to negotiate water use and data governance. Melville emphasizes the importance of transparency about energy use so that communities can hold businesses responsibility.

I think one of the best things that can be done, whether it comes through adjustment or self -government, is transparency. For now, leading infrastructure providers, Microsoft, Google, etc., are not transparent for so -called ‘local emissions and energy use’. Lack of transparency means that we – as customers, institutional investors, governments and other important actors – we have no idea how bad it is.

Nigel Melville, Associate Professor of Technology and Operations

Without clear data, deciding which companies to be included based on environmental sustainability standards is impossible. Melville also shares that the self-regulation of energy use benefits the developers of it, as no company wants to pay higher electric bills and increase their fixed costs.

Finding a common understanding and vision

To close the conversation, Melville and Hassan discuss how business leaders, students or policymakers can positively affect the integration of our daily lives.

Hassan turns into the importance of democratic discussion to the role people want him to have in our society.

“He is not really good or bad. But it is also not neutral, meaning we can shape technology. Society has the ability to do it. But this will require some difficult efforts … Many actors and interest groups are making these decisions in our name, which is not a good way to have a responsible, sustainable innovation. So in many ways, focusing on the democratic discussion about him and what society wants to come out of it is so important. And we are really at a time when it is becoming more and more urgent, “Hasan shared.

Melville agrees, focusing on the role that members of the university community can take.

“We need to unite artists, historians, political scientists, economists, and we must achieve a common understanding. What is this? Common and a common vision of what we can do, assemble and develop solutions to these very disturbing problems. “Shared Melville.

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