“Ethical Markets recommends this round-up of articles by the Columbia Journalism Review on the need to address the weaponizing of algorithms on social media platforms, to addict users though “engagement” and “recommendation”, which work to rapidly circulate falsehoods, conspiracy theories, death threats, hate speech — all to drive profits in …
Dear President Biden: By Mitchell J. Rabin
“Commonsense from our esteemed Advisory Board member, Mitchell J. Rabin, regarding expanding President Biden’s Covid-19 Advisory group’s approach beyond the current single-minded approach on vaccines. I can only add my own earlier retrospective view in my, “Let’s Restart America: Free Daily Test Now!” , reporting the research and development, at last …
“Behind Big Tech’s Crackdown on the Right Is a Fight Over Biden Antitrust Policy “by Ryan Grim
“Ethical Markets thanks our media partner Roberto Savio for this important reporting by Ryan Grim on key issues in efforts to reform social media monopolies and how these social media giants are currying favor with the Biden Administration. Must reading for our Panel on “Social Responsibilities of Media and the …
Algorithms are pushing society toward catastrophe, says Apple CEO
“Ethical Markets compliments Tim Cook for his honesty! See my “Can AI Algorithms Ever Be Ethical” going live Feb 4 on www.wsimag.com Apple CEO sounds warning of algorithms pushing society towards catastrophe Tim Cook says there will be consequences to having ‘rampant disinformation and conspiracy theories juiced by algorithms’. …
You cannot have AI ethics without ethics-By Dave Lauer
“Ethical Markets is proud to post this important article “You Cannot Have AI Ethics without Ethics“ by our distinguished Advisory Board member, Dave Lauer, CEO, Urvin.AI. Dave’s expertise in big data analytics in financial services now digs deeper into how best to monitor and hold algorithms and their designers accountable. …
Invitation | Report Launch | Malign Creativity: How Gender, Sex, and Lies are Weaponized Against Women Online
“Ethical Markets recommends this new study, illuminating yet another serious bias problem on social media platforms. This issue is yet another addition to all the other pathologies I cite and the 5 reforms I propose in my “Steering Social Media Toward Sanity“. Check in to the upcoming live stream. See …
FUTURE-PROOF YOUR COMPANY: Plan on Attending Planning for Transformative Change Virtual Conference
Planning For Transformative Change CONFERENCE & EXECUTIVE WORKSHOPS Fridays, February 5th – March 19th, 2021 CONFERENCE OVERVIEW The pandemic and other threats like climate change make it clear that the present global order is not sustainable, and they pose an existential challenge everywhere. The World Economic Forum called for a …
MLK Weekend of Service: Building Beloved Community Convergence
WE – A global campaign of We, The World to unite and amplify the efforts of people, organizations and movements working for the common good WE.net Compassion Games Presents MLK Weekend of Service: Building Beloved Community Convergence January 15-18, 2021 Starting Jan. 15th at 12 Noon Eastern Time https://www.compassiongames.org/MLKconvergence EVENT …
Hari Sreenivasan talks to Roger McNamee, “Why platforms must pay for their role in last week’s riots on Capitol Hill”.
“Ethical Markets highly recommends this podcast with Roger McNamee, author of “Zucked: Waking Up To The Facebook Catastrophe”, 2019 on the culpability for the insurrection in the USA of Facebook (in which he is still a major investor), as well as Google, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, and other advertising-driven profit-maximizing social …
Jane Fonda Keynotes UN Global Leadership Conference
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 – 7:30pm NEWSROOM: Ethical Markets “Ethical Markets is proud to co-sponsor with our partner the World Academy of Art & Science along with UNOG, UNCTAD honoring the UN’s 75th Anniversary from the Palais des Nations, Geneva — all online December 15-16, 2020. Watch this video of JANE FONDA’s speech here. …