Dr. Timnit Gebru was the co-lead of Google’s Ethical AI research team –until she raised concerns about bias in the company’s large language models and was forced out in 2020. Her departure sent shockwaves through the AI and tech community ad raised fundamental questions about how companies safeguard against bias in their own AI. Should in-house ethics resear ... Show More
Apr 28
How a Family-Owned Greek Cement Company Evolved Its Leadership While Pivoting Its Product Portfolio
Over 26 years at the helm, Dimitri Papalexopoulos, fourth-generation CEO of TITAN Cement, has turned the company from a domestic player into an internationally diversified group and championed an AI-driven productivity leap, even while steering the company through multiple econom ... Show More
34m 31s
Apr 14
The Challenges of Scaling a Technology for Social Good
In 2021, a breakthrough in sanitation technology – developed under the Gates Foundation’s “Reinvent the Toilet” challenge – stood ready for commercialization. The Single User Reinvented Toilet (SURT) offered an off-grid, self-contained system capable of processing waste, generati ... Show More
29m 44s
Mar 31
Should Wasabi Technologies Make the Move from Direct Sales to a Channel Strategy?
After launching Wasabi Technologies, a successful cloud storage company, founder and CEO David Friend was ready to scale the venture rapidly. The company had focused primarily on direct sales, but an opportunity to pivot toward channel sales was on the horizon. However, making th ... Show More
27m 48s
Oct 2023
#157 Is AI an Existential Risk? With Trond Arne Undheim, Research Scholar in Global Systemic Risk at Stanford University
It's been almost a year since ChatGPT was released, mainstreaming AI into the collective consciousness in the process. Since that moment, we've seen a really spirited debate emerge within the data & AI communities, and really public discourse at large. The focal point of this deb ... Show More
47m 30s
Dec 2022
Ethical Use of AI in HR Tech with Emre Kazim, Holistic AI
<p>In this HRchat episode, we delve into what constitutes robust AI management, how we can be more ethical with our use of AI-powered recruitment tech, and ask: <em>Is it enough to audit recruitment algorithms for bias?</em><br/><br/>Our guest this time is <a href='https://www.li ... Show More
24m 11s
Dec 2022
Ethical AI
In this episode of High Theory, Alex Hanna talks with Nathan Kim about Ethical AI. Their conversation is part of our High Theory in STEM series, which tackles topics in science, technology, engineering, and medicine from a highly theoretical perspective. In this episode, Alex hel ... Show More
22m 39s
<p><em>Mo Gawdat, an artificial intelligence expert and former chief business officer of Google X, explains how humans have the power to turn AI into a positive force that benefits society. </em></p><br><p><strong>Background:</strong></p><br><p>Public perception of artificia ... Show More
