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Do We Hold Algorithms To Higher Standards Than Humans?

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, the very fact that we are so frequently discussing the ethical development and deployment of artificial intelligence is a clear and distinct advantage that the technology holds over human decision-making. In other words, there are some things that are just not really possible to know.

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How Can We Rid Biases From Facial Recognition?

The Horizons Tracker

As Daniel Kahneman explains in Thinking Fast and Slow , we often make snap judgments when we first meet people, with these judgments driven in large part by the various biases and heuristics that allow us to shortcut our decision-making.

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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

Daniel Kahneman. For centuries, we’ve built and organized scientific and technological knowledge through testable explanations and predictions. The behavioral economist Daniel Kahneman once noted that “if you follow your intuition, you will more often than not err by misclassifying a random event as systematic.

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The Persistence of the Innovator's Dilemma

Harvard Business Review

In 1995, a young Harvard Business School Professor co-authored an article in Harvard Business Review , "Disruptive Technology: Catching the Wave." The most punishing innovations, they argued, were the ones that were easy to dismiss at first blush — simple, affordable solutions that took root outside the mainstream market.

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Why Western Digital Firms Have Failed in China

Harvard Business Review

The term “digital firms” refers to those companies that from their inception have focused on digital services enabled by the internet and related technologies, including mobile. imposing technological platforms developed for the U.S. ineffective innovation strategies. 5 Principles for Innovation in Emerging Markets.

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Crack the Leadership Code

Skip Prichard

Daniel Kahneman. Technology has connected more people in more places at more times than ever before. It’s in the new that insights, ideas, and innovation comes from. I recently spoke with him about his work. We’re blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. They keep probing to gain more perspective.

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Ethics for Technologists (and Facebook)

Harvard Business Review

The ongoing explosion of technologically-enabled business opportunities inherently expand the ethical dilemmas, quandaries and trade-offs managements will confront. Everyone online can—if they want to make the effort—become an amateur Asch , Skinner , Zimbardo , Pavlov , Ariely , Kahneman and/or Vernon Smith.

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