The next round of R:ETRO seminars starts soon! Register now for 4 fascinating talks on AI at work, the institutional structure of business ethics, corporate responsibility in the Anthropocene, and AI and moral agency: www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/research/cen...
Junior Business Ethics scholar? How cool would it be if you could be mentored by one of your academic idols? ✨ Learn about & express your interest in the SBE DEI Committee’s Icons mentorship programme:
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Deadline is Sunday, 6th April, so submit your response now!
I keep coming back to this card today.
[“There isn’t a place to which we can escape. It is therefore time to invent it.”]
No vull flors, vull igualtat.
(I don’t want flowers, I want equality.)
#8M #8MBarcelona #IWD
Here’s a nice list of words to inspire new paper titles.
(And some extra motivation to use them 10x as often as usual.)
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How do you think about the trade-off between efficiency gains from using AI for teaching prep (e.g., creating slides) and protecting your intellectual property (and/or donating your knowledge and creativity to the tech companies that then train their models using your input)?
Could we call it the difference between narrow self-interest (which she voted for, as a promise of free IVF) and a commitment to the broader good (which she voted against, and turns out it included her govt. job)? Should we know that the narrower good may be too narrow for ourselves & what we love?
I’m so excited that I forgot to say it’s next Thursday, 6th March, at 4pm GMT. 🫠
We’re closing this term’s R:ETRO seminars with the wonderful Tanusree Jain from CBS: “Unpacking the status of token women in corporate boardrooms.” This is a necessary and urgent conversation. Don’t forget to register!
@drtanusreejain.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.com/e/retro-semi...
“You don’t promote growth in a garden by allowing all the pests to feast on the fruit and flowers, and you don’t promote growth in an economy by allowing all the AIs to feast on the fruits of our creators.”
- Stephen Fry
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Bonus points if we include a quote from a book or a song by an author from one of the groups being erased.
Challenge to all of us who still have academic freedom: let’s include at least 3 of these words in our next published article.
“We have been handed a huge list of words that may lead to a grant being pulled, including advocacy, biased, gender, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender), diversity, inclusion, marginalised, and underserved.”
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Wanna learn more about what constitutes the wrong of exploitation? Join us on Thursday for a R:ETRO seminar with Brian Berkey from The Wharton School. So looking forward to it!
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Macklemore strikes again. (We need more protest songs.)
youtu.be/sn9EKC9nqU4?...
Without even thinking, I asked if I could have pa amb tomàquet (bread with tomato) in a restaurant in Mexico that didn’t have many vegan options. The addiction is real. 🍅 #paambtomaquet #catalanfood
So excited about tomorrow’s R:ETRO seminar with Elizabeth Anderson! Don’t forget to register to attend: www.eventbrite.com/e/retro-semi...
So looking forward to tomorrow’s R:ETRO seminar with Antonino Vaccaro (IESE Business School): “Still standing tall in the face of adversity: the formation of organizational character”. Register below to join us!
#businessethics #webinar #oxfordsbs #RETROseminars
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When someone has Nazi views and you know that because they tweet them & say them out loud & did a speech where they did a Nazi salute but when you call them a Nazi everyone goes ‘WOAH HANG ON A MINUTE THATS REALLY HYSTERICAL AND OFFENSIVE’ and you have to scream into a pillow for 3 hours.
I don’t have the words to express all my anger (at least not yet, not without being rude). So let me share Thandii’s new album, which is the slightly sorrowful musical hug I needed.
open.spotify.com/album/0IcpxP...
But in its panicked retreat from the system it spent years building, Meta may now be putting billions of users at risk. Just because Meta deleted that line about hateful speech causing offline violence doesn't mean it isn't true. And now the company has all but declared open season on immigrants, transgender people and whatever other targets that Trump and his allies find useful in their fascist project. "I can't tell you how much harm comes from non-illegal but harmful content," a longtime former trust and safety employee at the company told me. The classifiers that the company is now switching off meaningfully reduced the spread of hate movements on Meta's platforms, they said. "This is not the climate change debate, or pro-life vs. pro-choice. This is degrading, horrible content that leads to violence and that has the intent to harm other people."
I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...
A lovely compilation of indie covers, and all proceeds go to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. 🍉
@billboard.com.web.brid.gy
#musicforgood #solidarity
somethingmerry.bandcamp.com/album/number...
"Liberté égalité sororité". Gisèle Pélicot d'après la Marianne de Shepard Fairey (Obey).
Merci Gisèle Pelicot !
Thank you, @joshdzieza.bsky.social and @theverge.com! 🫶
Used this article in class this week and the debate was incredible - from business ethics to policy, touching upon some metaphysics and metaethics. We, as a society, need to talk more (and more effectively) about this sort of tech and what we want it to look like.
www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...
go.bsky.app/UqCWWBj
Closed the Racial (In)justice MBA elective in fantastic company: Flavia Ladino (MBA Student’s Association VP of DEI), Anita Abaisa and Vivian Acquah (AmplifyDEI), and my partners-in-crime Naomi Williams and Alejandra Linares-Figueruelo. Thank you (and all the students) for such a special experience!
Not (too) surprised to find out that I spent almost 4000 minutes listening to @idlesband.bsky.social in 2024… Thank you for keeping me company!
On December 2, the Brussels Court of Appeal found the Belgian government guilty of crimes against humanity in Congo during Belgian colonial rule and ordered it to pay compensation as a form of reparation.
It's a landmark win for the reparations movement.
www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...
