A new working paper from Harvard’s Marco Iansiti provides a nuanced and real-world framework for understanding how data creates value and competitive advantage A mantra of management over the past few years has been that companies need to gather and profit from the data they collect about their customers and products. An endless stream of articles and…
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With the AI Intelligence Act, the EU takes a stand as the West’s most active regulator of these promising but controversial technologies In all the headlines this spring about the end of the pandemic, it would have been easy to miss the European Union’s (EU) announcement of a new set of proposed rules that would…
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Automated platforms define autonomy and manage labor in startling new ways that may soon crossover and impact how we all lead and work For many senior human resources executives I know, Uber’s arrival into the labor ecosystem is a remarkable crystal ball in which they see future working models evolving before their eyes. Uber and…
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A comprehensive analysis of a decade’s worth of robot investments finds that robots create more jobs than they eliminate — but that may be the bad news One of the most important and contentious issues facing business and social leaders today is the impact that new technologies will have on labor and employment. As AI…
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AI claims to be able to read human facial expressions, but the science says this claim is both wrong and dangerous to society In Brief: Startups and Big Tech claim that their new AI-based affect recognition systems can detect human emotions by analyzing “universal” facial expressions. Indeed, this ancient concept has influenced both professional and lay…
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