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Latest Read: Trustworthy AI

Trustworthy AI: A Business Guide for Navigating Trust and Ethics in AI by Beena Ammanath. Beena holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science and a Masters in Business Administration. She is Executive Director of the Global Deloitte AI Institute and leads Trustworthy AI & Technology Trust Ethics at Deloitte.

Trustworthy AI: A Business Guide for Navigating Trust and Ethics in AI by Beena Ammanath

She has served on the boards of several tech startups, nonprofits and universities. In addition, Beena has extensive global experience in AI and digital transformation, spanning across e-commerce, finance, marketing, telecom, retail, software products, services and industrial domains with companies across a variety of industries. Beena is also the Founder of non-profit, Humans For AI, an organization dedicated to increasing diversity in AI.

Prior to her joining Deloitte, she was a Board Member and Advisor to several technology startups. She has previously also worked with companies such as General Electric, Bank of America, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Thomson Reuters, British Telecom, and more. Beena also serves on the Board of AnitaB.org, AI for Good, and the Advisory Board at Cal Poly College of Engineering. She is a contributing author to HBR’s The 2023 Year in Tech.

Beena should be praised for honestly defining AI in the opening pages of the first chapter. In addition, the deep outline of elements comprising AI is simply a great introduction to AI models and technologies. There is plenty of practical approaches shared to assist leaders in planning and obviously managing risk. AI is literally everywhere. For the general pubic their first direct engagement has been ChatGPT.

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Latest Read: The AI Dilemma

The AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible Technology by Juliette Powell and Art Kleiner.

The AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible Technology by Juliette Powell

Juliette holds a BA in Sociology from Columbia University. In 2021 Juliette joined the Faculty of New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. Art Kleiner holds a MA in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley. He began his career at the Whole Earth Catalog and is a former managing director at PwC.

Juliette and Art outline seven principles certainly attempting to ensure AI supports humanity. They are describing how AI has turned into a double-edged sword. Like several books they address the promise of AI but also discuss pitfalls.

Their position is to show how AI can indeed become a very transformational tool. Yet, if not checked it can also be very damaging. So, managing AI is going to be very important right out the door. To some extent we have failed.

This is a good look at AI Risk Management. They are also exploring how to implement each principle with best practices, new developments, and a necessary approach with caution.

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Latest Read: Rewired

Rewired: The McKinsey Guide to Outcompeting in the Age of Digital and AI by Eric Lamarre, Kate Smaje, and Rodney Zemmel.

Rewired: The McKinsey Guide to Outcompeting in the Age of Digital and AI by Eric Lamarre, Rodney Zemmel, Eric Lamarre

Rewired is certainly an insightful, addressing strategies organizations must address to successfully adopt AI as part of a digital transformation. The downstream impact cannot be neglected. Organizations will risk their future by not pivoting to AI as the key driver for their existing digital transformation.

There is a well outlined roadmap from McKinsey’s experience across all markets. Recently published (June 2023) this guidance will help organizations still addressing the impact of the pandemic, understand the need to adopt AI and the downstream impact upon their current state business model.

Based upon key insights, Rewired is further outlining that organizations must pivot to simply remain competitive. This is truly a ‘publish or perish’ moment for many organizations regardless of market. Organizations need only look at their competitors already adopting AI. The realization that you are already playing catch up hits home. Or perhaps looking deeper, long time competitors impacted by the pandemic’s economic downturn since 2020 have simply closed their doors.

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Latest Read: Artificial Intelligence Basics

Artificial Intelligence Basics: A Non-Technical Introduction by Tom Taulli. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from California State Polytechnic University-Pomona. Tom has written for BusinessWeek, TechWeb, Bloomberg and AI articles for Forbes.

Artificial Intelligence Basics: A Non-Technical Introduction by Tom Taulli

With Artificial intelligence and subsets continuing to grow in capabilities and deployments, I am always pleased to find titles to share with organizational leaders to bring them up to speed on AI.

Tom is accurate in sharing that AI has in fact rapidly expanded beyond smart speakers and digital assistants to become a general-purpose technology. As such this has been echoing across virtually all industries and markets.

So understanding AI’s possibilities for your organization is more critical today. In less than six months, OpenAI launched Generative AI service ChatGPT into the stratosphere. But it also arrives with much needed safety measures.

Artificial intelligence touches nearly every part of your day. While you may initially assume that technology such as smart speakers and digital assistants are the extent of it, AI has in fact rapidly become a general-purpose technology, reverberating across industries including transportation, healthcare, education, government, financial services, use to identify a few. In our modern era, an understanding of AI and its possibilities for your organization is essential for growth and success in a fast changing and competitive marketplace.

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Latest Read: The AI Factor

The AI Factor: How to Apply Artificial Intelligence and Use Big Data to Grow Your Business Exponentially by Asha Saxena. Asha holds a Masters in Data Science and Machine Learning from Southern Methodist University.

The AI Factor: How to Apply Artificial Intelligence and Use Big Data to Grow Your Business Exponentially by Asha Saxena

Asha is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. Above all, Asha is the Founder and CEO of Women Leaders in Data and AI (WLDA). She has served as CEO and Chairperson of Future Technologies Inc., a data management firm that provided warehousing, analytics, and intelligence services.

The AI Factor is addressing a roadmap business leaders can understand while beginning their organization’s AI digital transformation. In fact, Asha provides a great introduction that will resonate with companies: Micheal Lewis’ Moneyball which tells the story of the Oakland A’s use of data analytics to find success as a small market baseball team competing against teams in huge metrpolitean areas across the country.

Asha is writing about AI transformations at Netflix and Starbucks. For instance, the key element for both companies was their extensive deployment of data analytics which provided a key advantage of their competitors. Netflix has fully embraced data analytics versus Blockbuster. Besides, this transition was at the right time. Broadband was beginning to deliver on the promise of the internet and tip the scales for amazon to continue launching into the giant they have become.