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Despite What Zuckerberg’s Testimony May Imply, AI Cannot Save Us Yesterday and today, Mark Zuckerberg  finally testified before the Senate and House, facing Congress for the first time to discuss data privacy in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. As we predicted , Congress didn’t stick to Cambridge Analytica. Congress also grilled Zuckerberg on content moderation— i.e ., private censorship —and it’s clear from his answers that Facebook is putting all of its eggs in the “Artificial Intelligence” basket. But automated content filtering inevitably results in over-censorship. If we’re not careful, the recent outrage over Facebook could result in automated censors that make the Internet less free, not more. Facebook Has an “AI Tool” For Everything—But Says Nothing about Transparency or Accountability Zuckerberg’s most common response to any question about content moderation was an appeal to magical “AI tools” that his team would deploy to solve any and all problems f...

There are many reasons to respond to CDP, but one objective tends to stand out. Simply put: Those that report have a competitive advantage. Companies that respond to CDP see a 67 percent higher return on equity versus their non-responding peers and organizations that participate have identified $53 billion worth of savings through the reporting process. Businesses not only satisfy customer and internal requests for transparency, and identify new business opportunities, but also improve investor relations. Which brings up the next point. Companies who were either asked to respond to CDP this past year and didn’t, or those that failed to provide sufficient information, will see an ‘F’ next to their ( very public ) Climate Change, Water and Forest scores. While an ‘F’ in CDP technically means “failure to provide sufficient information to be evaluated,” it definitely brings back inner grade school fears. Many investors use CDP data to understand risk, protect investments and capitalize ...