CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 11, 2023 /CNW/ — A brand new report by MIT Know-how Evaluation Insights explores how organizations perceive accountable expertise use, what has motivated them to undertake extra accountable practices, and what advantages they hope to realize from this adoption.
The report, “The state of accountable expertise,” is produced in affiliation with Thoughtworks, a world expertise consultancy, and attracts on a survey of 550 senior executives and in-depth interviews with expertise specialists from organizations together with H&M Group, MOIA, and California Polytechnic State College.
Key findings embrace the next:
Accountable expertise use is a topic of nice curiosity throughout industries. Practically three-quarters of survey respondents both strongly agree (30%) or considerably agree (43%) that “accountable expertise concerns will finally come to equal enterprise or monetary concerns in significance when organizations make selections about expertise use.”
Organizations count on accountable tech investments to repay in boosted model repute and buyer and worker retention. When requested about tangible enterprise advantages of adopting accountable expertise, the highest three responses have been higher buyer acquisition/retention (47%), improved model notion (46%), and prevention of damaging unintended penalties and related model threat (44%). Carefully following these prime three have been attracting and retaining prime expertise (43%) and bettering sustainability (43%).
No consensus on which accountable practices ought to take precedence. Organizations identify a variety of focuses for his or her accountable expertise practices, with inclusive design, knowledge privateness, environmental affect, elimination of AI bias, and workforce diversification every within the prime three for about half of respondents.
Organizations are each apprehensive about and appreciative of regulation surrounding accountable expertise. Practically one-quarter of respondents (23%) identify adherence to present legal guidelines, equivalent to GDPR, or the anticipation of pending (and probably further-reaching) regulation as a prime motivation for adopting accountable tech practices. Whereas some enterprise leaders categorical trepidation about pending regulation, others cite it as vital trade steerage.
“As expertise turns into a elementary a part of each enterprise, and as we see penalties of its misuse play out, accountable expertise use has develop into a important enterprise expectation,” says Laurel Ruma, world editorial director for MIT Know-how Evaluation Insights. “How firms interpret that obligation, nonetheless, and the diploma to which their execution is matching as much as their aspirations, is quickly evolving.”
“Accountable tech is about exploring—and actively contemplating—the values, unintended penalties and damaging impacts of the tech we create and deploy, and actively managing and mitigating threat and hurt,” stated Dr. Rebecca Parsons, chief expertise officer at Thoughtworks. “We should always all attempt to achieve a state the place expertise would not exploit us—it helps us. This analysis reveals that an increasing number of firms acknowledge this new dimension of the best way we stay and work.”
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