This article was written by Siri Terjesen, Dean’s Faculty Fellow in Entrepreneurship, American University Kogod School of Business, and originally appeared on The Conversation, a not-for-profit news site dedicated to unlocking ideas and knowledge from academi…
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Month: June 2019
Boeing is crowding its employee parking lot with undelivered 737 Max jets and the company says that’s part of it’s ‘inventory management plan’
Boeing has struggled to manage its supply of 737 Max jets months after the fallout from two fatal crashes involving the planes in late 2018 and early 2019. And now, Boeing has had to crowd its employee parking lots with some undelivered planes, the local S…
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AI, Drones, Empathy, Alienation, and the Gig Economy
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. The Verge has an important post on content moderation in the corporate hellhole that is Facebook which has implications both for the future of work (or, as we call it, “labor”) and for services that we, as consumers (reproduc…
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Are Economists Blocking Progress on Climate Change?
By Servaas Storm, Senior Lecturer of Economics, Delft University of Technology. Originally published at the Institute for New Economic Thinking website Dutch economist Servaas Storm, co- author of a widely-read 2018 study on climate change, Why Green Growth …
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Microsoft Reconsidering AI Ethics Review Plan
Microsoft, which has taken the ethical implications of AI so seriously that president Brad Smith met with Pope Francis in February to discuss how to best create responsible systems, is reconsidering a proposal to add AI ethics to its formal list of product au…
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