AI technology is approximately 60 years old but is now reaching exponential momentum in its application across all of humanity.

 

That is obvious, of course. But my eyes were opened wide during my conversation with a former Gartner executive, lawyer, global board advisor and human rights advocate, Stephen Pitt-Walker.

 

If you’re a decision-maker using artificial intelligence in your organization, you will be interested in my conversation on the regulation, ethics, compliance, and legal frameworks: how the US, the European Union, and China (as examples) approach the topic very differently.

 

The recent fatal Tesla crashes during testing were because of its system’s misinterpretation of unique environment conditions are opening a lot of conversations around AI.  

  

A fascinating career path with more than 30 years of global professional experience across multiple industry sectors, Stephen has worked in Australia, East Asia, the UK, Europe, and the US, holding global and multi-geography responsibility in several multi-national corporations, including Gartner and Honeywell, as two examples.

 

According to Stephen:  

  

“Considering we’re in a day and age where sustainability in every sense, is in question, particularly through corporate behavior, given that corporations are fueling industry, which is where some of our existential concerns come from today (relating to AI). 

  

Particularly in the environmental space, for example, and the social space as well, user persuasion, or indeed, manipulation of users, or consumers, even if they may achieve benefit out of that, to some degree, they may also achieve some disadvantage or detriment. I think that needs to be monitored.  

  

My underlying thesis is that I don't believe that this change or transformation will take place without some systemic, overarching, legal, and compliance regime taking it there, along with the self-regulation and systemic or organization autopoiesis, which is certainly relevant and part of the puzzle.”  

  

Listen in to my intriguing conversation with Stephen.

 

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