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Life, Automated | To Thrive Alongside AI, Find the Bottlenecks

This week on The Insightful Leader, we're bringing you an episode of "Life, Automated"—a new podcast from Kellogg's Ryan Institute on Complexity. Join host Jess Love as she attempts to answer the question on everyone's lips: Will AI actually take over every job ever? Kellogg economist Ben Jones doesn't think so. Drawing from historical evidence around innovation, Jones argues that automation never…

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Insight Unpacked S3E5 | Electricity Was Supposed to Save Us. Will It Doom Us Instead?

In the fifth—and final—episode of "Insight Unpacked: Can We Still Build a Green Economy?" we consider how AI and the human spirit could get us to net zero.

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Insight Unpacked S3E4 | Does Climate Policy Stand a Chance?

America passed its biggest-ever climate bill … only to reverse course three years later. In the fourth episode of "Insight Unpacked: Can We Still Build a Green Economy?" experts discuss why policy solutions struggle to stick.

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Insight Unpacked S3E3 | Why Wall Street Slowed Its Roll on Sustainability

A few years ago, the stock market was wild about green tech and ESG funds. And then it wasn't. We look at why in the third episode of "Insight Unpacked: Can We Still Build a Green Economy?"

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Insight Unpacked S3E2 | Why Companies Can't Keep Their Climate Commitments

They say they want to do better. In the second episode of "Insight Unpacked: Can We Still Build a Green Economy?" we look at an oil company, a tech giant, and an Italian energy provider to explore why net-zero pledges have barely moved the needle.

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Insight Unpacked S3E1 | The Climate Crisis Is Here. Will We Ever Fix It?

Saving the planet is going to take more than net-zero pledges and shopping green. In the first episode of our series, "Insight Unpacked: Can We Still Build a Green Economy?" we take the current temperature of the climate fight.

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Introducing Insight Unpacked, Season 3

Introducing Insight Unpacked, Season 3: Can We Still Build a Green Economy? In the last decade, we've seen powerful people and organizations take on the issue of climate change — making big pledges to reduce their carbon emissions by adapting their fleets, retrofitting their offices, or going paperless. And yet global emissions are still at or near record highs. So what gives? In this five-episode…

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When It Comes to Biases, AI's Only Human

The AI models informing many of our decisions are riddled with preconceptions. On this episode of The Insightful Leader, two experts outline how bias creeps in.

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Automation, Answers, and Advice—a Playbook for AI Adoption

So you've tinkered with AI, but now you want to level up. Here are tips from Kellogg faculty on using the tech more effectively.

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The Global Trends Shaping the Way We Do Business

Uncertainty is everywhere. On this episode of The Insightful Leader, we examine the effect of geopolitics on everything from Barbies to Sharpies.

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