Digital Leadership Series — AI Insecurity, Featuring Professor Bhaskar Chakravorti

By the Center for Digital Transformation featuring Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business at the Fletcher School

CDT Director Vijay Gurbaxani is joined in conversation with Professor Bhaskar Chakravorti to discuss AI’s potential effects on social inequities and the steps that business leaders should take to mitigate them. AI acceleration will make societies’ existing inequities even worse, and it can erode trust in AI, deter widespread adoption, and limit the technology’s productivity benefits. This can be a difficult problem to fix. For one, the inequality is created not by a single societal fracture, but many. Two, regulation and policy interventions are being deprioritized. Businesses — both AI producers and adopters — must find their own alternative solutions to fill the policy gap. Solutions may be left to companies whose leaders take on the responsibility. The good news is that company leaders can act to mitigate the risks. Professor Chakravorti argues that they must consider six different “divides” caused by AI and, in each, consider key levers to effect change: technologies, institutions and markets.

Watch the episode here.

(This post is republished from the Center for Digital Transformation’s YouTube Channel.)