Are Responsible AI Programs Ready for Generative AI? Experts Are Doubtful

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Are Responsible AI Programs Ready for Generative AI? Experts Are Doubtful   For the second year in a row, MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) have assembled an international panel of AI experts that includes academics and practitioners to help us understand how responsible artificial intelligence (RAI) is being implemented across organizations worldwide. This year, we’re examining the extent to which organizations are addressing risks that stem from the use of internally and externally developed AI tools. The first question we posed to our panelists was about third-party AI tools. This month, we’re digging deeper into the specific risks associated with generative AI, a set of algorithms that can use unvetted training data to generate content such as text, images, or audio that may seem realistic or factual but may be biased, inaccurate, or fictitious. We found that a majority (63%) of our panelists agree or strongly agree with the following statement: Most RAI programs are unprepared to address the risks of new generative AI tools. That is, RAI programs are clearly struggling to address the potential negative consequences of using generative AI. But many of our experts asserted that an approach that emphasizes the core RAI principles embedded in an organization’s DNA, coupled with an RAI program that is continually adapting to address new and evolving risks, can help. Based on insights from our panelists and drawing on our own observations and experience in this field, we offer some recommendations on how organizations can start to address the risks posed by the sudden, rapid adoption of powerful generative AI tools. According to our experts, RAI programs are struggling to address the risks associated with generative AI in practice for at least three reasons. First, generative AI tools are qualitatively different from other AI tools. Jaya Kolhatkar, chief data officer at Hulu and executive vice president of data for Disney Streaming, observes that recent developments “showcase some of the more general-purpose AI tools that we may not have considered as part of an organization’s larger responsible AI initiative.” Given the technology’s general-purpose nature, adds Richard Benjamins, chief AI and data strategist at Telefónica, “an RAI program that evaluates the AI technology or algorithm without a specific use case in mind … is not appropriate for generative AI, since the ethical and social impact will depend on the specific use case.” Continued here

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Let Your Heart Be Broken   Each month, I spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars keeping The Marginalian going. For seventeen years, it has remained free and ad-free and alive thanks to patronage from readers. I have no staff, no interns, not even an assistant — a thoroughly one-woman labor of love that is also my life and my livelihood. If this labor has made your own life more livable in the past year (or the past decade), please consider aiding its sustenance with a one-time or loyal donation. Your support makes all the difference.We spend our lives trying to anchor our transience in some illusion of permanence and stability. We lay plans, we make vows, we backbone the flow of uncertainty with habits and routines that lull us with the comforting dream of predictability and control, only to find ourselves again and again bent at the knees with surrender to forces and events vastly larger than us. In those moments, kneeling in a pool of the unknown, the heart breaks open and allows life — life itself, not the simulacrum of life that comes from control — to rush in.How to live with that generative brokenness is what composer Tina Davidson explores throughout her memoir Let Your Heart Be Broken: Life and Music from a Classical Composer (public library) — a lyrical reckoning with what it takes to compose a life of cohesion and beauty out of shattered bits and broken stories. Continued here

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Sundogs and the Sacred Geometry of Wonder: The Science of the Atmospheric Phenomenon That Inspired Hilma af Klint   Each month, I spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars keeping The Marginalian going. For seventeen years, it has remained free and ad-free and alive thanks to patronage from readers. I have no staff, no interns, not even an assistant — a thoroughly one-woman labor of love that is also my life and my livelihood. If this labor has made your own life more livable in the past year (or the past decade), please consider aiding its sustenance with a one-time or loyal donation. Your support makes all the difference.On the morning of April 10, 1535, the skies of Stockholm came ablaze with three suns intersected by several bright circles and arcs. Awestruck, people took it for a sign from God — a benediction on the new Lutheran faith that had taken hold of Sweden. Catholics took it for the opposite — punishment lashed on King Gustav Vasa for having ushered in the Protestant Reformation a decade earlier. What the pious were actually witnessing was a parhelion, from the Greek for “beside the sun,” also known as sundog or mock sun — an atmospheric optical phenomenon caused by the refraction of sunlight through ice crystals in high, cold cirrus or cirrostratus clouds, or in moist ground-level clouds known as diamond dust. Continued here

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May Sarton on the Art of Living Alone   Each month, I spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars keeping The Marginalian going. For seventeen years, it has remained free and ad-free and alive thanks to patronage from readers. I have no staff, no interns, not even an assistant — a thoroughly one-woman labor of love that is also my life and my livelihood. If this labor has made your own life more livable in the past year (or the past decade), please consider aiding its sustenance with a one-time or loyal donation. Your support makes all the difference.“There is no place more intimate than the spirit alone,” the young May Sarton (May 3, 1912–July 16, 1995) wrote in her stunning ode to solitude — the solitude she came to know, over the course of her long and prolific life, as the seedbed of creativity. Living alone can be deeply rewarding and deeply challenging. It is not for everyone. It is not for those who romanticize its offerings of freedom and focus, but excise its menacing visitations of loneliness and alienation. It is not for those who find silence shattering. It is especially not for those who hunger for another consciousness to validate their experience and redeem their reality. It is only for the whole. Continued here

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What Does the Tech Industry Value?   AI tools are creating a whole new world of opportunity and risk — but these technologies aren’t built in a vacuum. To the contrary, the global tech industry has long been defined by a set of core values that have informed how new technologies develop. To better understand the ideologies, cultural expectations, and mindsets that influence Silicon Valley’s priorities, we asked six researchers to weigh in on what the mentality of today’s leaders can tell us about the opportunities and threats we will face tomorrow. Continued here

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Pillars of Resilient Digital Transformation - SPONSORED CONTENT FROM Red Hat   The acceleration of digital transformation because of the pandemic recast the position of the chief information officer (CIO) to that of a big-picture strategist. From ensuring ongoing alignment of IT and business demands to leading the transition to full digital enablement, the CIO role requires expert proficiency in a broad range of both technology and management skills. Continued here

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To Lead Across Cultures, Focus on Hierarchy and Decision Making   When misunderstandings arise among members of global teams, it’s often because managers conflate attitudes toward authority and attitudes toward decision-making. However, the two are different dimensions of leadership culture, says the author, who has extensive research and consulting experience with global companies. Continued here

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Bed Bath & Bankruptcy: Lessons for Senior Leaders   Bed Bath & Beyond (BB&B) finally filed for bankruptcy on April 23, 2023, after surviving a near-death experience earlier in the year thanks to a last-minute equity infusion from an opportunistic investor. The termination of that agreement and the subsequent failure to raise sufficient capital through new share issuance and other financing techniques meant that the company had exhausted the capacity of creative financial engineering to stay in business. The financially focused strategy initiated by a new management team installed in 2019 ultimately couldn’t save the struggling retailer. To diagnose why their approach was so misguided and what lessons senior leaders should learn, we surveyed more than 1,600 retail shoppers in the months before BB&B declared bankruptcy.The arc of the BB&B story is a familiar one: An innovator enjoys spectacular market success but fails to respond adequately to subsequent changes in the competitive environment. This leads to flatlining growth followed by revenue declines and operating losses. Newly appointed leadership relies on financial engineering to bolster the share price by cutting many of the costs involved in creating the distinctive appeal of the business. Ultimately, the business is acquired or fails. Continued here

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The 1,700-year legacy of Korean temple cuisine   WooKwan Sunim wandered across a mat of decaying leaves and browned pine needles, careful to keep her shale-grey robes clean. For those who know what to look for, the tangled forest surrounding Gameun Temple, near the South Korean city of Icheon, is packed with edible treats. Each year, ginseng roots hide in the dark loam beneath vivacious sprigs of emerald leaves and carmine berries; clusters of velvety oyster mushrooms (songi beoseot in Korean) bloom from the decay of fallen trees; and spicebush branches burst like fireworks with the yellow blossoms known as ginger flowers.A nun of almost 40 years, WooKwan is a master of Korean temple cuisine and often returns to Gameun from her foraging forays laden with sprigs of fresh pine needles, wild artichoke hearts, feather-light cherry blossom, fat ginkgo seeds and perky lotus leaves, to pickle, ferment, dry or salt for use at a later date. No matter the season, the land dictates the menu at Buddhist temples across Korea, where an organic, vegetarian, zero-waste approach to sustenance is older than the temples themselves. Continued here

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Why has British Chinese food shocked the US?   British Chinese food, and more specifically Chinese takeaway food, has recently become a focal point on TikTok among Americans with #britishchinesefood amassing 36.9 million views, spurring a flurry of controversy and debate.One TikToker, American Asian Soogia, expressed confusion over the meals that British people were sharing on the social media platform, as they little resembled the Chinese cuisine (including American Chinese dishes) she's familiar with. The conversation quickly descended into a general smearing of British Chinese takeaway food, with another TikToker asking, "Are the British eating out of a dumpster?" Continued here

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Fast X review: 'Preposterous from beginning to end'   In the last Fast and Furious film, two of the characters flew a car into space and orbited the Earth, which just went to prove how far the series had gone from its low-budget street-racing roots. And yet the latest instalment, directed by Louis Leterrier, makes its predecessor look like a model of restraint, nuance, and documentary-like plausibility. The tenth film in the petrolhead series, not counting the Hobbs & Shaw spin-off, Fast X is colossally noisy, frantic and preposterous from beginning to end. Everything about it is so far over the top that you may well start by being irritated at how stupid and excessive it is. After that, you might find yourself admiring its determination to be even more stupid and excessive than it was before. And then, eventually, you may even smile and laugh at the way it takes stupidity and excess to breathtaking new heights. In short, this is a film that I loathed to the core of my being, but I also quite enjoyed.More like this:- Johnny Depp's comeback is a flop- The weirdest Marvel movie yet - 12 of the best films of 2023 so far Continued here