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Alphabet Workers Union to bring back the ‘Don’t be evil’ motto

HR Digest

More than 400 engineers and other workers at Google and its parent company, Alphabet , have formed a union open to all employees. On Monday, the group announced the creation of the AWU with an op-ed in The New York Times , after years of employees protesting for better workplace inclusivity and ethics at the search engine.

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How RFID Technology Improves Hospital Care

Harvard Business Review

The team that implemented the initiative was led by a physician and a scientist-engineer, and its members were drawn from Mayo’s Emergency Department (ED) and the Clinic’s Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery. Integrate the system into the workflow.

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We Need to Approach AI Risks Like We Do Natural Disasters

Harvard Business Review

Finally, policymakers should establish international trust and ethics guidelines to govern the development and implementation of ever more advanced AI products and systems. But they should also begin to explore steps to deal with when smart devices become even more sophisticated and potentially set and follow their own objectives.

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There’s No Such Thing as Anonymous Data

Harvard Business Review

” Regulation Information & technology Data Analytics Security & privacy' De Montjoye and colleagues examined three months of credit card transactions for 1.1 million people, all of which had been scrubbed of any PII. . So let’s find a better model. Let’s find a balance between privacy and utility.”

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What If Google Had a Hedge Fund?

Harvard Business Review

The world's biggest and fastest search engine can't help but generate terabytes and petabytes of actionable investment intelligence. In fact, Google chief economist Hal Varian (and other economists and forecasters) already use the search engine's data and analytics to predict economic futures.

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Build STEM Skills, but Don’t Neglect the Humanities

Harvard Business Review

Who doesn’t stand in awe of the advances that science and its STEM siblings (technology, engineering, and math) have created to better our world? But since the time of Aristotle, it has also been recognized that the hard sciences and the humanities must walk side by side in governing human action.

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We Can’t Always Control What Makes Us Successful

Harvard Business Review

It’s now done by economists, data engineers, IT operatives, and anyone who has access to the data. The field of psychology has long thought about the ethical issues and moral consequences of their tests. Human resources Information & technology Talent management' But a few things have changed with the rise of big data.