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BSR Insights episodes

  • Responsible and Sustainable AI

    Lale Tekisalp, Associate Director, Technology Sectors, chats with David Stearns on the topic of Responsible and Sustainable AI, exploring:

    • The latest developments, including the latest regulatory developments, that listeners should be aware of.
    • The risks that companies should be aware of when designing, developing and deploying these models.
    • What a responsible and sustainable approach to the development and deployment of AI would look like.
    • Are there ways that AI can be used to help us (companies and society more broadly) achieve a more just and sustainable world?
      • 16 min
    • The Environmental Impacts of AI

      Ameer Azim, Climate Change Director, chats with David Stearns on the Environmental Impact of AI, exploring:

      • Why it’s important to assess the environmental impacts of a technology like AI.
      • Through what type of activities or upgrades does the use of AI increase a company’s CO2 emissions?
      • Beyond carbon emissions, what are some of the other environmental impacts associated with the rise of AI that companies should anticipate dealing with as they embrace this technology?
      • What are some of the steps that companies can take to address these negative impacts?
      • Can AI be used to combat climate change?
        • 23 min
      • Apply a Futures Lens to AI

        Jacob Park, Transformation Director and head of BSR’s Sustainable Futures Lab, chats with David Stearns about Applying a Futures Lens to AI, exploring:

        • Why futures thinking techniques can be particularly useful to discussions about responsible AI.
        • How scenario planning exercises work, who is typically involved within a company, and how they might be applied to mitigate a potential outcome of AI such as worker displacement.
        • Some of the opportunities and innovations offered by AI that have the potential to advance sustainable business.
        • How futures thinking can help to address challenges emerging from the rapid advancement of AI.
          • 25 min
        • The Human Rights Impacts of AI

          Hannah Darnton, Technology and Human Rights Director, chats with David Stearns on the Human Rights Impacts of AI, exploring:

          • How the use of AI may impact human rights and where we might see examples of this.
          • Are there ways that AI can be used as a tool to protect human rights? 
          • In BSR’s experience, are companies receptive to conducting human rights risk assessments of their AI practices? 
          • Recommended resources for companies looking to get started.
            • 20 min
          • Regulating AI

            Richard Wingfield, Technology and Human Rights Director, chats with David Stearns on the topic of Regulating AI, exploring:

            • What the newly passed EU AI Act is, and what it regulates.
            • Why the Act takes a risk-based approach and how different types of risks are categorized.
            • What type of advice BSR is offering to companies on steps they should be taking to come into compliance with the AI Act.
              • 19 min
            • Leading with Ambition with Aron Cramer
              Aron Cramer, BSR President and CEO, chats with David Stearns on the topic of Leading with Ambition, exploring:
              —Why companies should be enthusiastic about these changes to reporting requirements and regulatory frameworks.
              —The apparent tension that these reporting requirements have created between ambition and compliance and where the pitfalls might be for companies.
              —Whether there is a possibility that new requirements and reporting rules might actually unlock greater ambition. Advice for companies pursuing an ambitious sustainability strategy, and whether there is business value in this approach.
              —The evolving role of the Chief Sustainability Officer on strategy, leadership, and external communications.
              —Whether these regulations and compliance frameworks go far enough.
              22 min
            • Unpacking Double Materiality with Beth Richmond
              Beth Richmond, BSR Director, Transformation chats with David Stearns on Unpacking Double Materiality, exploring:
              —How the different frameworks and guidelines define materiality, where they are similar and where they are different.
              —Why companies should apply the concept of double materiality, and why it is the approach that BSR favors.
              —What does BSR say to companies who only engage in financial materiality to help them understand why they should be embracing double materiality?
              —Whether double materiality requires engagement with new stakeholders, both internal and external.
              —What Beth is hearing from companies who are going through the process of coming into compliance with mandatory reporting.
              16 min

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