“Ethical Markets is also deeply concerned about these media issues, as well as the concentration which has been accelerated by the FCC under Chairman Pai . Hazel Henderson, Editor“ The Realized Temptations of NPR and PBS Correction (2/14/2019): WAMC, an Albany radio station, was incorrectly identified as WMAL. Recently an elderly …
Reporting Exchange Newsletter – the latest in ESG reporting
eporting Exchange Newsletter – the latest in ESG reporting For this month’s newsletter, we bring you the latest risk research from the World Economic Forum, one of the world’s largest asset managers’ findings on ESG investment portfolio performance and an inside look at the Japanese reporting landscape. Risk in …
Our Algorithms are Biased
“Ethical Markets has also explored these issues of biased algorithms in our recent articles: “Let’s Teach Humans …Before We Teach Machines“ and “The Future of Democracy Challenged in the Digital Age“ (at www.ethicalmarkets.com). Hazel Henderson, Editor“ Our Algorithms are Biased By Miriam McKinney For almost a year, our team …
The B Team-Latest Updates
Photo by World Economic Forum/Mattias Nutt A Note from B Team CEO Halla Tómasdóttir Last week I traveled to Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting. I was frankly unsure if this was a good venue for The B Team to B. I struggle to believe that real …
The Millennium Project for Future Day March 1st
For those who might like a 3 minute video introduction to The Millennium Project for Future Day March 1st, attached is a short overview I gave at the recent World Academy of Art and Science meeting at the World Bank
New Scientist: “Call AI By a Better Name”
“Ethical Markets agrees with New Scientist! I proposed re-naming so-called “AI” (which is just an advertising slogan): “Human -Trained Machine Learning”, because there’s nothing artificial about it! See my “Let’s Teach Humans…Before We Teach Machines”. Also see my “The Idiocy of Things “ and “The Future of Democracy Challenged in the …
How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Repression
“Ethical Markets highly recommends this article “The Road to Digital Unfreedom” from the Carnegie Endowment, which documents the current use of digital surveillance by autocratic regimes, facilitated by the dangers of mis-use of human-trained machine intelligence (so-called AI) now tracking individuals and groups. Dictatorships are using big data collection schemes, …
Political communication scholar Kathleen Hall Jamieson examines Russian efforts to impact the 2016 election.
“Ethical markets highly recommends this talk by media expert Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Foundation, which give the best actual video examples so far, of the various disinformation campaigns by Russia’s government Internet Research Agency based in St. Petersberg, targeting US citizens to sow dissention, anger and hatred during …
Good News from the Schumacher Center!
“Ethical Markets and Library welcomes all the new initiatives at our partner, Schumacher Center and Library! ~Hazel Henderson, Editor“ Enclosed is Greg Watson’s wonderful drawing of the “big room” upstairs at the Schumacher Center’s Library. Strolling through, Bob Swann is smiling to see all the eager young researchers …
Building Community Wealth in 2019
Dear Colleague, As 2018 comes to a close, I find myself reflecting on two incredible statistics. The first is that US life expectancy has dropped for the third year in a row, the longest sustained decline since World War I; and the second is that in order to avoid climate …