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Companies need to prove they can be trusted with technology
Daniel Dobrygowski, Harvard Business ReviewTrust in technology — and the companies that use it — has taken a hit over the past few years. Transgressions against individuals’ privacy, calcification of corporate or individual biases into life-altering algorithms, constant threats that new tech erodes their ability to make a living, and beta testing unsecured...
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OpenAI will give local news millions to experiment with AI
Hanaa’ Tameez, NiemanLabIt used to be Facebook and Google doling out funds to local news publishers in an attempt to win them over. Now, OpenAI — the Microsoft-backed company behind AI chatbot ChatGPT — is the latest tech giant trying to woo publishers.
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The cybersecurity reputation challenge
Luke Botting, The Centre for Corporate Public Affairs, 18 July 2023In this episode of the Centre’s Very Public Affairs Podcast, Assistant Professor Dr Bruce Baer Arnold, who teaches privacy, health, intellectual property, and consumer protection law at the University of Canberra, discusses how organisations can improve their cyber security. He...
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Research: The ESG issues that matter most to people
Daniel J. Benjamin, Ori Heffetz, and Michael M. Weinstein, Harvard Business ReviewResearch conducted by nonprofit organisation JUST Capital highlights the importance of public opinion in determining corporate behaviors. The study reveals that when evaluating American firms, the public places a significant emphasis on the treatment of workers. This priority remains consistent across demographic...
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2023 Corporate Public Affairs Oration
Delivered by Stan Grant, Author, Journalist and Broadcaster
“What will it take for the public square to be a more civil and attractive place for the airing and contest of ideas in liberal democracies, and what is the role of individuals, institutions, and business to engender respect in and...
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What is responsible computing?
Rashik Parmar, Marc Peters, and Llewellyn D.W. Thomas, Harvard Business ReviewFor businesses, technology has a variety of interconnected impacts including unintended consequences, data risks, and appropriateness of technological uses, as well as broader environmental concerns. The authors offer a systemic Responsible Computing Framework that integrates environmental challenges including...
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Amid growing AI, humanise communication to strengthen relationships
Cole Clark, MIT SloanAI entered a new era when artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT became available to the public this year. These technologies are taking over more and more aspects of business as they seep into the collective consciousness. As Vox put it, generative AI is “suddenly everywhere,” and it’s poised to profoundly...
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The four-day workweek: How to make it work in your organisation
Andrew Barnes, MIT SloanAs co-founder of 4 Day Week Global, Andrew Barnes has a front-row seat to the world’s largest experiment on the effects of scaling back the workweek.
It started with Barnes’s own New Zealand company, Perpetual Guardian when he wondered whether his staff members could do their jobs better if they worked the...
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What roles could generative AI play on your team?
Misiek Piskorski and Amit JoshiThe recent advances in ChatGPT are merely the first application of new AI technologies. As such, companies and leaders need to think about the various applications outlined here and use the framework described in the article to develop applications for your own company or organisation. In the process, they will...
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Don’t miss these three opportunities to improve work culture
Meredith Somers, MIT SloanA study from Columbia University and Duke University found that 92 per cent of CEOs and CFOs believe that improving their company’s culture would increase its value — not just in terms of increased employee engagement or job satisfaction but also better financial and operational...
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