Let's Rise Up to Social Responsibility in Technology
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As companies drive AI and automation, we might have overlooked the effects on the wellbeing of our workforce.
Today, firms that deploy AI for the purpose of driving innovation, rather than for labour substitution and cost cutting, are likely to be the most successful; as they expand, they will hire new workers.
If the foreseeable adverse effects of shifting to an automated knowledge economy are not addressed, many of the potential benefits could be squandered.
Among other things, governments today have a critical role to play in providing education and redesigning curricula to emphasise technical skills and digital literacy.
But business leaders must also rise to the challenge. If companies adopt an approach of enlightened self-interest with respect to AI and automation – what we call “technological social responsibility” – they can deliver benefits both for society and their own bottom lines.
dcHR.tech's question:
How can organisations and their leaders rise to this challenge of responding to "technological social responsibility'?
For a start, helping your people to warm up to the idea of being digitally literate could be that critical first step in the success of your techno-revolution.
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