Prioritizing the Who in the age of automation
Authors:
Johann Roduit, PhD in Bioethics, founding partner of Conexkt, @JohannRoduit
Alexandre Luyet, MA in Marketing, founding partner of Conexkt, @AlexLuyet
Summary:
Simon Sinek argues that we should start with Why. In the age of automation, we think we should prioritize the Who, from which everything else stems.
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Originally published at https://www.heidi.news.
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Question 1 - On Ethics
Dear Yuval Noah Harari,
As humans, we already outsource a lot of our moral decision-making to others (e.g. to friends, to politicians, to religious figures, etc.). We let them make moral decisions for us (or at least we ask them to help us).
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