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Interview Of The Week: Laura Bechthold On Gamifying AI Ethics

Who: Laura Bechthold is a professor of technology assessment and cultural management at the Bavarian Foresight Institute (TH Ingolstadt) and an associate member of the Club of Rome Germany. She currently focuses on foresight, futures literacy, digital responsibility, and societal transformation. In addition to her research, she works as a speaker and advises both companies and public organizations in the areas of foresight and strategy.

Topic: Using gaming to sensitize the future work force about AI ethical issues.

Quote:  “Games let people experience firsthand how seemingly neutral technical choices can lead to discrimination in the real world. When you immerse yourself in such scenarios the connections between real-world structures and algorithmic decisions become more tangible.”

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Jennifer L. Schenker

Jennifer L. Schenker, an award-winning journalist, has been covering the global tech industry from Europe since 1985, working full-time, at various points in her career for the Wall Street Journal Europe, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Red Herring and BusinessWeek. She is currently the editor-in-chief of The Innovator, an English-language global publication about the digital transformation of business. Jennifer was voted one of the 50 most inspiring women in technology in Europe in 2015 and 2016 and was named by Forbes Magazine in 2018 as one of the 30 women leaders disrupting tech in France. She has been a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneers judge for 20 years. She lives in Paris and has dual U.S. and French citizenship.