DISCUSSION In the news this week September 3rd 2018

Dear Readers,

Here are a few articles published in the last week that address the sorts of issues – corporate governance, sustainability, leadership, the future of work, tech and AI – that Tomorrow’s Company thinks business should seek to fully engage with if it is truly to become a force for good in society.

Yours,

The TC team

• ‘Crowdsourcing in the age of artificial intelligence: How the crowd will train machines’ https://bit.ly/2PvxKmZ
• Following last week’s devastating fire at Primark’s Belfast store, union says support for workers has been ‘out of this world’ https://bit.ly/2MHR17X
• From the Daily Telegraph: ‘Britain faces an AI brain drain as tech giants raid top universities’ https://bit.ly/2NDLNX8
• Though-provoking piece in the Guardian: ‘Britain’s shared spaces are vanishing, leaving us a nation of cliques’ https://bit.ly/2NLVKC7
• Multi-million pound business regeneration scheme in Middlesbrough – which offers perks like high-speed broadband, rent and rate incentives and free public health initiatives – gets its first tenant https://bit.ly/2NQjp4c
• Article on mitigating unfair bias in artificial intelligence – ‘instead of choosing between humans-only systems and AI systems, leveraging the best of human values and ability as well as artificial intelligence promises greater progress’ https://bit.ly/2Q4YETY
• A letter to the FT: ‘Keep Unilever as part of Britain’s business inheritance’ https://www.ft.com/content/7817ce64-af85-11e8-8d14-6f049d06439c
• Rugby is the next sport threatening to sell its birthright http://markgoyder.com/index.php/2018/09/06/rugby-next-sport-threatening-sell-birthright/
• From our own website: Get your game face off – in the workplace, we should all strive to show who we really are and say what we really think https://wp.me/p7u80c-1h8
• The UK has 360k accountants, which is 1 out of every 10 accountants in the world, as many as all EU countries put together. Of the 33.4 million workers in the UK, 1 in 92 is an accountant. Is this ruining the boardroom and the economy? https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/business/finance-strategy/is-accounting-think-ruining-the-boardroom-and-the-economy
• Two-and-a-half hours of Elon Musk discussing AI and all manner of other subjects on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast https://youtu.be/ycPr5-27vSI