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Do We Hold Algorithms To Higher Standards Than Humans?

The Horizons Tracker

Recently the World Economic Forum pondered whether organizations should be hiring an AI Ethics Officer to ensure that the algorithms being developed made fair and ethical decisions. The importance of noise. In other words, there are some things that are just not really possible to know.

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Ethics for Technologists (and Facebook)

Harvard Business Review

In retrospect, if I had to write it again, I’d include a section or chapter on ethics. The ongoing explosion of technologically-enabled business opportunities inherently expand the ethical dilemmas, quandaries and trade-offs managements will confront. Ethics Information & technology Innovation' but sometimes, they will.

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Ethical Consumerism Isn’t Dead, It Just Needs Better Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Ethical consumerism is the broad label for companies providing products that appeal to people’s best selves (for example, fair trade coffee or a purchase that includes a donation to a charitable cause). This pessimistic stance stems primarily from the lower sales of ethical brands. We cannot shop our way to a better world.”

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