Jutta Eckstein: The dark side of AI

This is a shared event with meetup groups around NZ.

AI-based recruiting tools don’t like women. An average ChatGPT conversation consumes 500ml/ 16,91oz of water. Data annotators are not only challenged by low wages but also by mental health issues. These examples show that AI has issues addressing social, environmental, and economic sustainability.
All too often we are looking at the bright side only: the opportunities, innovations, conveniences (e.g., write that article for me), and fun (e.g., create that fun image). And certainly, AI does or can enhance both our private and professional lives. However, these enhancements come at a price. This has been observed by the UN, with the consequence that a resolution has been adopted to promote “safe, secure, and trustworthy AI systems that also benefit sustainable development.”
In this session, I want to explore practices that can help us all to become aware of our blind spots and this way be able to create AI 4 Sustainability. So, it seems AI 4 Sustainability requires a lot of work. Let’s get started.
Bio Jutta Eckstein:
Jutta works as an independent coach, consultant, and trainer. She has recently co-created an assessment for (agile) teams to gauge the environmental, social, and economic impact of their products and services. Besides that, she has published her experience in various books, having pair-written the most recent one with John Buck on Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy (dubbed BOSSA nova).
Jutta has served the board of the Agile Alliance (from 2003-2007) and has recently founded the “Agile Sustainability Initiative” which aims at increasing the awareness of the Agile community’s possibilities to make a difference. She’s a member of the program committee of many different American, Asian, and European conferences, where she has presented her work. She holds an M.A. in Business Coaching & Change Management, a Dipl.Eng. (MSc.) in Product-Engineering, and is trained as a pollution control commissioner on ecological environmentalism.
Other links:
@agilealliance.social@JuttaEckstein
@juttaeckstein.bsky.social
https://www.linkedin.com/in/juttaeckstein
https://jeckstein.com/sustainability
and you can check out her books:
Company-wide Agility with Beyond-Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy
Retrospectives for Organizational Change,
Diving for Hidden Treasures: Uncovering the Cost of Delay in your Project Portfolio
Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams, and
Agile Software Development in the Large: Diving Into the Deep
Agile Softwareentwicklung mit verteilten Teams
Agile Softwareentwicklung in großen Projekten