Insights from Global Corporate Venturing 2021 by Emmanuel Benhamou, managing director, EAIGG

“You are now being recorded for quality training purposes.” How many times have you heard this automated message in the last few days, months or years? The more recent times may prompt you to ask: was my conversation recording used to train an employee or to train a machine learning algorithm? And then the question emerges, should corporations have a responsibility to disclose when their activity is used as training data for an AI tool? This is one of many challenges that companies have to grapple with in today’s data economy. In our new era, driven by artificial intelligence, ethical questions have arisen around transparency, data biases, model biases, security, privacy and the governance of AI technologies. In September 2021, executives from BGV, IBM, Silicon Valley Bank, and other prominent corporations met at the Global Corporate Venturing Innovation Summit, a conference in Monterey, California, to discuss the Ethical AI Challenge.

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