Sentences with phrase «ethical infrastructure]»

But before we think about taxing robots and AI, we need to get the basics of the self - learning technology right, and develop comprehensive ethical standards that hold up for the long term.

But a class - action lawsuit filed recently in Florida suggests that serious ethical lapses remain a defining part of the industry.

The fact that something is legal doesn't make it ethical.

In short, humans will need to establish workforce standards and build training programs for AI and robots geared toward filling ethical gaps in robotic cognition.

After all, ethical rules are different in adversarial situations, and it might well be argued that in the highly - regulated world of commerce, businesses should feel justified in helping themselves to whatever strategies aren't specifically outlawed.

The story quotes Bob Walker, vice-president of Ethical Funds at Northwest & Ethical, as saying that keeping the two roles «has become standard practice, not just best practice.»

But that rationale is, at best, incomplete, and leaves open a different line of argumentation, one that applies even within competitive domains, and one that should truly drive a stake through the heart of the «legal = ethical» nonsense.

And on the handful of occasions where the Obama administration did draw legal scrutiny, the investigations did not block out the sun because they were not part of a decades - long legacy of ethical missteps.

The five - year - old association has more than 400 members, all of whom adhere to a code of ethical business practices concerning the use of private records.

Are these corporate wrongdoings a whole different species from decent, ethical people like you and me?

According to University of North Carolina researchers, sleep deprived people are more susceptible to social influences, like a boss who wants you to step over ethical lines.

The health implications were huge, as were the looming ethical concerns.

Loyalty grows between employees and employers through ethical values and a strong work / life balance.

But rather, that it's a case that illustrates the challenges of leadership, and an opportunity to reflect on the ethical demands that fall on leaders in particular, as a result of the special role they play.

A string of headline - grabbing corruption scandals are also exposing the ethical breaches that befall many parties after more than a decade in power.

This makes horsehair a prime option for buyers who may have ethical concerns regarding boar and badger bristles but don't want to use a synthetic brush.

At another Best Workplace, Baird, an employee said the investment and private equity firm discovered the «secret sauce» that combines ethical expectations, ambition and collegiality: «While everyone must be courteous and professional, that doesn't stifle open dialogue and disagreement.

Brilliant Earth and Ada Diamonds are engagement - and wedding - focused jewelry merchants that make ethical sourcing a core aspect of their value propositions, setting themselves apart from traditional jewelers.

In this context ethical «tone» means the mood or tenor that a leader sets with regard to choices between right and wrong, between more and less admirable forms of behaviour.

Fairness, integrity, decency and sustainability — the four pillars of ethical enterprise.

It is crucial to see that setting the right tone means much more than just sounding ethical.

The new law would be a blanket ban on short - term rentals no matter how ethical the renter is.

It's not the most ethical example, I suppose, but it's a good lesson: Sometimes customers don't need your business until you prove there's a need.

While Burnett said he believes the release of the passwords is ethical, he said he has concerns the release might make him the target of an FBI raid, citing the case of a former Anonymous activist who was sentenced to five years in prison for posting hacked data on the Internet.

Sure, there are hacking fears and privacy issues and ethical questions and infrastructure challenges and concerns about lost jobs.

One factor is the ethical equivalent of inattentional blindness — failure to see something that is in plain sight.

«We discussed how wonderful it would be if a man could train himself to be both ethical and brave, and to earn all he needed for his house - hold and himself.

More importantly, it's the ethical and right thing to do.

Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are jointly offering a new course on the ethics and regulation of artificial intelligence, the University of Texas at Austin recently introduced its Ethical Foundations of Computer Science course and Stanford University is developing a computer science ethics course for next year.

The half dozen areas of study are Finance and the Global Economy, Ethical and Legal Responsibility, Managing the Global Enterprise, Understanding and Serving Customers.

Another important factor is the slow, steady erosion of our moral sensibilities that goes with incrementally - worsening ethical behaviour.

He dismissed the pressure to pursue an ethical foreign policy as the work of «influential minority elements among us that have some special interest» at heart and believed the American commitment to Israel was a strategic liability.

Among employees surveyed at the Best Workplaces, 93 % said their managers are honest and ethical.

But what does it imply from an ethical point of view?

Ethical leadership means taking responsibility for the tone you set.

I was part of a panel discussion that took on the provocative question of whether positive ethical tone at the top ensures success.

Part of being the institutional party is refraining from putting excessive strain on institutions — either tangible ones, like investigative agencies that feel compelled to maintain their own public reputation, or intangible ones, like the sense of the public that political leaders have high ethical standards.

It's the right and ethical thing to do.

But here's the essence of the findings: according to work by Christopher Barnes, a University of Washington management professor, the mismatch between many employees» natural preferences and the workday's official start not only results in decreased productivity and creativity (not to mention increased misery), but might also impact the ethical decisions of late risers forced out of bed prematurely.

Selling only products that work is required by the basic ethical and legal requirement of «merchantability.»

The best way to reap the benefits of a reputation for being ethical is not to pay much attention to those benefits, but to focus on the importance of doing the right thing — for its own sake.

«Most of my clients do face difficult ethical problems,» says van den Muyzenberg, who consults leaders.

The difference between the two is that the way of the ethical merchant can increase the wealth and well - being of people so that they can have a better life and take time for a spiritual purpose and an aesthetic life.»

«It's hard to find somebody with the kind of ethical prestige that [the Dalai Lama] has.»

Those were egregious ethical lapses, but they reflect some genuine grievances that PR practitioners have about the way Wikipedia deals with their complaints.

Each branch of Congress has set up its own ethical rules, which that branch alone enforces.

Icahn's efforts last year to overhaul the biofuels program - while acting as an adviser to Trump on regulatory issues - drew scrutiny from federal investigators after lawmakers said it raised ethical concerns.

Adherence to the law is seldom enough to guarantee that a company or individual has satisfied all relevant ethical obligations.

An ethical identity intersects with each decision empathic people make throughout their lives.

And so the ethical behaviour of a company under the sway of «the business case,» it seems, would be liable to an ebb and flow on a pretty regular basis.