The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 5, 2022

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. “This could deepen existing structural injustices, skew power balances further, threaten human rights and limit access to resources and information.”

Kahneman 124

Kahneman Ethics Cost Reference 124

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

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'

Ethics 8

Ethics Zimbardo Kahneman Explicit Knowledge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

As Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman has written, "For most people, the fear of losing $100 is more intense than the hope of gaining $150. While the phenomenon of loss aversion has been well-documented, it''s worth noting that Kahneman himself refers to "most people" — not all — when describing its prevalence.

Kahneman 9

Kahneman Tversky Hedge Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

Lazear went on to describe how economists, with the University of Chicago's Gary Becker leading the way , had been running roughshod over the other social sciences — using economic tools to study crime, the family, accounting, corporate management, and countless other not strictly economic topics.

Tversky 12

Tversky Crisis Levitt Consensus 12