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New Perspectives Required To Create AI Fit For Humanity

The Horizons Tracker

As technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence have progressed, there has been considerable time and effort given to the ethics of this development. These efforts have been driven by a strong desire to ensure that the technologies function in a way that benefits society rather than harms it. Robotic colleagues.

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How Companies Succeed By Engaging Radically With Society

Eric Jacobson

Clearly and powerfully define your company's contribution to society -- which must be at the heart of the company's purpose, not a side operation. John Browne : Business exists to serve society; it is the engine of human progress that feeds, enriches, warms and delights us.

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Why Companies That Wait to Adopt AI May Never Catch Up

Harvard Business Review

Instead they are waiting for the technology to mature and for expertise in AI to become more widely available. They are planning to be “fast followers” — a strategy that has worked with most information technologies. Even more recent technologies like deep learning are based on research that took place in the 1980s.

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Put the “and” Back in “Sales and Marketing”

Harvard Business Review

But the real power of the partnership comes from their ability to bring the best of each of their departments—as well as pricing, operations, and other groups—to bear in exploiting those micromarket opportunities. Create a technology engine that powers the front lines. Caesars has taken that point of view to heart.

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Back to the Future, and Face-to-Face

Harvard Business Review

The big new thing in social technology is the ability to do something really old: talk to people face-to-face in real time. As more is communicated, more emotions shared, more passions pursued in this much more vivid medium, we're likely to see stronger bonds between brands, consumers, networks and causes. Avoid anonymity.

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What Happens After You’re Forced to Resign

Harvard Business Review

But in order to realize this future, we need to learn and employ the lessons from the architectural evolution of the internet, facilitating openness and distributed operations rather than the closed proprietary systems of individual manufacturers and service providers.

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Be a Better Global Collaborator

Harvard Business Review

You can also use technology to begin "experiencing" the new culture while still at home. Remember this is a human relationship you are building and you need to create a human bond," says Molinsky. In the 1990s, he was transferred to an operations position in the Middle East. These were things that were in the engineer's control.