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

HR Digest

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. They have developed artificial intelligence technology for use by the Department of Defense and profited from ads by a hate group.

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IT Manager Job Description and Duties (JD) Template

HR Digest

An IT manager is a manager that oversees the entire job of the information and technology department. This manager is responsible for everything technology in an organization. They work through technology tools and gadgets to ensure that they are used by employees to the maximum. Strong work ethics. Job Overview.

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Knowledge Is Power. Data Isn’t.

In the CEO Afterlife

The “too much” concept applies to information, the first step on the stairway to power. Thanks to technology, we have access to an endless source of data at our fingertips, at any place and at any time we choose. Overwhelming amounts of information breed complexity. Be Careful what You Wish For.

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The Threat of Workplace Automation in Future

HR Digest

John Maynard Keynes warned in 1930 “about the new scourge of technological unemployment”, which he termed as “unemployment due to our discovery of means of economizing the use of labor outrunning the pace at which we can find new uses for labor.” In short, out jobbing ourselves. So how might we deal with this version of the future? .

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What Is Responsible Computing?

Harvard Business Review

For businesses, technology has a variety of interconnected impacts including unintended consequences, data risks, and appropriateness of technological uses, as well as broader environmental concerns. For each they provide several KPIs that leaders should focus on.

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Is Your Company Using Employee Data Ethically?

Harvard Business Review

Supreme Court, once said , “Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is right to do.” ” Associate Justice Stewart probably didn’t know how new data technologies would soon begin to blur those boundaries. Potter Stewart, justice of the U.S.

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How Leaders Can Be Stewards of “Good Tech”

Harvard Business Review

It’s always been important for companies to take responsibility for the creation, application, and disruption of the technologies they create and use, but now that the rapid application of AI is affecting people’s privacy, security, and daily lives as never before, accepting that responsibility is essential.