Original Thinking Podcast
135 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago -In the Original Thinking Podcast, experts and academic colleagues discuss their latest research and original thinking at Alliance MBS.
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The UK’s regional productivity disparities and the “levelling up” agenda – what’s the role of research and development? | Vital Topics | Original Thinking Podcast
October 14, 2021 11:01 - 1 hour - 114 MBThe UK has a profound problem of regional disparities in productivity performance, with second tier cities that underperform compared to expectations based on their size, and deindustrialised towns and urban areas that have failed to find productive new economic roles. The distribution of research and development investment in the UK – especially in the public sector – is also highly skewed to the prosperous Greater South East. At this Vital Topics event, Richard A.L. Jones, Vice-...
Travelling through Productivity Land | Original Thinking Podcast
October 07, 2021 11:01 - 1 hour - 106 MBThis episode is hosted by Bart van Ark, Professor of Productivity Studies & Director of the Productivity Institute at Alliance MBS, a UK-wide organisation which aims to lay the foundations for an era of sustained and inclusive productivity growth by bringing together academic research, policy studies and business engagement. After several decades of work on productivity issues, Bart will take the audience of this lecture on a tour through “global productivity land”. He will assess ...
Are we what we (don’t) consume? | Original Thinking Podcast
September 30, 2021 11:01 - 56 minutes - 77.6 MBThis episode will be hosted by Emma Banister, Professor of Consumption and Society at Alliance MBS. It is well-established that products and brands serve as social tools, providing means of communication between individuals and their social worlds. However, one of Emma’s key research interests lies in what consumers resist, what they shy away from, and how these more negative or rejected aspects of consumption inform identity projects Emma will draw on a number of her studies related to i...
Organising care around patients, Stories from the frontline of the NHS | Original Thinking Podcast
September 23, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 78.3 MBTo celebrate the launch of Organising care around patients Manchester University Press and Alliance Manchester Business School are hosting a live panel discussion, asking how care can be better organised around the needs of patients. Joining authors Naomi Chambers, Professor of Healthcare Management at AMBS, and Jeremy Taylor, Director for Public Voice at the National Institute for Health Research, the discussion will be chaired by Alastair McLellan, Editor of the Health Service Journa...
Organising care around patients, Stories from the frontline of the NHS | Original Thinking Podcast
September 23, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 78.3 MBTo celebrate the launch of Organising care around patients Manchester University Press and Alliance Manchester Business School are hosting a live panel discussion, asking how care can be better organised around the needs of patients. Joining authors Naomi Chambers, Professor of Healthcare Management at AMBS, and Jeremy Taylor, Director for Public Voice at the National Institute for Health Research, the discussion will be chaired by Alastair McLellan, Editor of the Health Service Jo...
Leading in the post-pandemic world of work | Original Thinking Podcast
September 22, 2021 11:01 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBThis podcast will be hosted by Dr Simon Hayward, Honorary Professor of Leadership at Alliance MBS, CEO of Cirrus, and Managing Director and global lead on leadership and culture at Accenture. Drawing on his extensive experience consulting with leading UK and international organisations, Simon will describe his and others’ research into the leadership attributes needed in this post-pandemic world, in line with the dramatic changes the pandemic has brought in terms of the changing sk...
Choices now that will define a decade | Vital Topics | Original Thinking Podcast
September 16, 2021 11:01 - 55 minutes - 51 MBAs the economy shows promising signs of recovery, Tony Danker, the CBI’s Director General, will set out why the choices we make now will define the decade to come, in this latest Vital Topics event from Alliance Manchester Business School. Building on the CBI’s ‘Seize the Moment’ economic strategy for the UK, he will argue that the economic rebound could well be temporary; that private sector investment is locked up, not let out; and that Britain risks losing out to international c...
Continuity & Resilience Series: Human Aspects of Resilience | The Manchester Briefing
September 09, 2021 10:59 - 1 hour - 124 MBIn the unique and challenging world of a global pandemic, the resilience of local services and businesses has been critical to maintaining successful operations for response organisations, providers of essential local services, and critical infrastructure. In this, the third in a three-part series of podcasts co-produced with the British Standards Institution (BSI), we examine the human aspects of the pandemic and identify organisational learning for psychological health and well...
Helen Pankhurst | Women Leading in Business - WLiB
July 29, 2021 11:09 - 34 minutes - 48 MBHosted by Claire-Marie Boggiano, Lurig Change & Development. Looking to make new connections and speak with other inspiring and aspiring business people? Brush up on your people skills and join us online for the networking event of the month! Speak to like-minded business women for an amazing online event. Discuss your ideas, share your knowledge and your expertise. Prepare your digital business cards and make new connections in an informal setting. This month we will be joined b...
Continuity & Resilience Series: Building the resilience of essential services post-Covid | The Manchester Briefing
July 22, 2021 11:01 - 1 hour - 123 MBIn the unique and challenging world of a global pandemic, the continuity of local services and businesses has been critical to maintaining successful operations for response organisations, providers of essential local services, and critical infrastructure. In this, the second in a three-part series of podcasts co-produced with the British Standards Institute (BSI), we examine the contribution of standards to resilience planning, business continuity, and city resilience in terms of ...
Is auditing as good as it gets? Audit reform and beyond | Original Thinking Podcast
July 15, 2021 11:05 - 1 hour - 125 MBRecent corporate scandals and the response of some corporations to the pandemic have brought attention back to the role of auditing in restoring trust to business. The government has submitted proposals aiming at strengthening corporate governance for major UK companies and reforming the way they are audited. The expressed key objectives of the proposed reforms are to restore public trust to business, ensure responsible corporate governance, empower stakeholders and keep the UK leg...
A Collective Memory: examining post pandemic commemoration | The Manchester Briefing
July 08, 2021 11:04 - 1 hour - 108 MBCovid-19’s duration, and the intensity of measures taken in responding to it, have brought major disruptions with lasting consequences. Health precautions have redefined our relationship to mortality and death, not least by disrupting the rituals that enable societies to overcome major trauma. Those not directly affected by mourning are often affected by isolation, by difficult or unbearable living conditions, the breakdown of relationships, and the disappearance of faces – those i...
A journey following the growth footsteps of knowledge-intensive firms | Original Thinking Podcast
July 01, 2021 11:02 - 55 minutes - 76.5 MBKnowledge-intensive startups are well known to be a source of novel technological innovations and economic growth. Yet, such startups face significant challenges when trying to grow and become large global technological leaders and many of them fail. In this talk, Niron Hashai, visiting Professor of International Business at Alliance MBS, goes over 20 years of his own work on the topic and addresses the question of how knowledge-intensive start-ups can successfully grow to become i...
Leading with Courage - WIN Manchester in partnership with Women Leading in Business | WLiB
June 24, 2021 11:02 - 1 hour - 86.1 MBToday’s podcast was recorded at a special Women Leading in Business webinar in partnership with WIN Manchester. Opened by Alliance MBS’s Head of School, Fiona Devine, and hosted by Claire-Marie Boggiano, we hear from three keynote speakers - Kristin Engvig, CEO & Founder of WIN & the WIN Conference, Lucy Danger, CEO of EMERGE and Nazir Afzal OBE, International Adviser on Rule of Law & Former Chief Prosecutor – who give their take on the conference’s theme this year ‘Leading with co...
Is business to blame for capitalism? | Grigor McClelland series | Original Thinking Podcast
June 17, 2021 11:01 - 1 hour - 114 MBIn this annual Grigor McClelland podcast, we will explore how current business practices are encouraging short-termism, ignoring nature and harming customers. The sense that capitalism needs to change, post-pandemic, reflects widespread concerns about the way business operates. In particular, many sectors of the economy are increasingly dominated by big companies, and this has been accompanied by the productivity slowdown, an absence of pay increases - except for executives - and a...
Looking beyond Covid-19 | The Manchester Briefing
June 10, 2021 11:01 - 1 hour - 136 MBIn the unique and challenging world of a global pandemic, the continuity of services and organisational resilience has been critical to maintaining successful operations for both response organisations, providers of essential local services and critical infrastructure (including travel). In this, the first in a three-part series of podcasts co-produced with the British Standards Institute (BSI), we examine the inter-dependencies between business continuity and resilience planning, ...
Codilia Gapare | Women Leading in Business - WLiB
May 27, 2021 11:03 - 36 minutes - 50.2 MBLooking to make new connections and speak with other inspiring and aspiring business people? Brush up on your people skills and join us online for the networking event of the month! Speak to like-minded business women for an amazing online event. Discuss your ideas, share your knowledge and your expertise. Prepare your digital business cards and make new connections in an informal setting. This month we will be joined by Codilia Gapare, an entrepreneurial breast cancer survivor w...
The challenges of trust and security amid the rapid acceleration of online services | Vital Topics | Original Thinking Podcast
May 20, 2021 11:01 - 1 hour - 116 MBSponsored by DWF and Capita, Vital Topics is Alliance MBS' series of prestigious business lectures, bringing powerful ideas and original thinking to audiences from the Manchester city-region and beyond. The next Vital Topics event takes an in-depth look at how industry and academia are working increasingly closely to tackle the huge challenges – technical, economic, and social - around cyber security. Such challenges are rapidly evolving for businesses across all sectors, not leas...
Resilience Planning & Emergency Management | The Manchester Briefing
May 13, 2021 11:01 - 1 hour - 87.5 MBIn the latest of our series of podcasts (in partnership with The International Emergency Managers Society – TIEMS, and Capacity Building International - CBI) our speakers will explore more of the key lessons and themes that have emerged from the Covid-19 crisis, concentrating on the perspectives of strengthening resilience planning and the implications for the emergency management profession going forward. We will examine how Covid-19 has required different ways of resilience partn...
Recovering from COVID-19 | The Manchester Briefing
May 06, 2021 11:01 - 1 hour - 87.4 MBIn April 2020, at the height of the first wave of COVID-19 across Europe, academics at Alliance Manchester Business School and the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at The University of Manchester launched The Manchester Briefing, a UK funded research project influencing global and local recovery and renewal strategies. A year on from when the crisis first struck, this special podcast is specifically aimed at students who are interested in hearing how academic research c...
Heather Waters | Women Leading in Business - WLiB
April 29, 2021 11:01 - 34 minutes - 47.6 MBHosted by Claire-Marie Boggiano, Lurig Change & Development Looking to make new connections and meet other inspiring and aspiring business people? Brush up on your people skills and come join us for the networking event of the month! Meet like-minded business women for an amazing event in Manchester. Discuss your ideas, share your knowledge and your expertise. Bring along your business cards and make new connections in an informal setting. We will hear from Heather Waters, Enterp...
Strategic thinking in a changing world | Original Thinking Podcast
April 22, 2021 11:01 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBThis episode will be hosted by Mark Healey, Professor of Strategic Management at Alliance MBS. His research focuses on cognition in organisations, particularly applied to strategic decision making and the wider strategic management process. What does it take to think and act strategically? Strategic thinking is one of the most coveted skills in business but it remains poorly understood. In this lecture, Mark will argue that the classical view of the strategic thinker as an aloof c...
Communities: the new local resilience capability | The Manchester Briefing
April 15, 2021 11:01 - 1 hour - 85.3 MBDuring COVID-19, we have witnessed community responses on a scale and diversity that was previously unthinkable with invisible acts of good neighbourliness, donations by businesses of all sizes, and the creation of thousands of mutual aid groups, all in addition to the work of the voluntary sector. We now need to galvanise the progress made, identify and remove barriers for communities to flourish, and co-produce a new understanding of risk, vulnerability and capability through com...
Recovery and renewal from Covid-19: A year of The Manchester Briefing | The Manchester Briefing
April 01, 2021 11:01 - 1 hour - 141 MBIn April 2020, at the height of the first wave of COVID-19 across Europe, academics at Alliance Manchester Business School and the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute launched The Manchester Briefing – a fortnightly document that brings together international lessons for local and national government recovery and renewal in the wake of the pandemic. The Briefing, which has been successfully distributed across the world, has been specifically aimed at those who plan and imp...
Susan Hayes Culleton | Women Leading in Business - WLiB
March 25, 2021 12:01 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBHosted by Claire-Marie Boggiano, Lurig Change & Development Looking to make new connections and speak with other inspiring and aspiring business people? Brush up on your people skills and join us online for the networking event of the month! Speak to like-minded business women for an amazing online event. Discuss your ideas, share your knowledge and your expertise. Prepare your digital business cards and make new connections in an informal setting. In this episode we are joined b...
Women in Business MBA Student Council | Original Thinking Podcast
March 18, 2021 12:02 - 56 minutes - 52 MBToday’s podcast was recorded at the Women in Business MBA Student Council event held on International Women’s Day. Joining us on the panel were Professor Fiona Devine OBE, Head of Alliance Manchester Business School, Damaris Albarran, Chair of Alliance Manchester Business School Advisory Board and former Vice President at Bank of New York Mellon, Katie Clinton, a member of Alliance Manchester Business School Advisory Board and Partner at KPMG UK and Head of Internal Audit, Risk and...
The value of human labour part 2 | Work & Equalities Institute
March 11, 2021 12:01 - 1 hour - 142 MBThis podcast continues the interdisciplinary discussion of critical issues confronting human labour under COVID-19. Conflicting Covid narratives: The value of supermarket work and implications for the future Abbie Winton is a final year doctoral researcher at the Work and Equalities Institute. Her research explores retail work and sociotechnical change, with a current focus on the crisis and the shaping impact this could have on the future of work within the sector. Debra Howcro...
Yukti Bhardwaj | Women Leading in Business - WLiB
March 01, 2021 12:01 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBHosted by Claire-Marie Boggiano, Lurig Change & Development Looking to make new connections and speak with other inspiring and aspiring business people? Brush up on your people skills and join us online for the networking event of the month! Speak to like-minded business women for an amazing online event. Discuss your ideas, share your knowledge and your expertise. Prepare your digital business cards and make new connections in an informal setting. In this episode we will be join...
Artificial Intelligence Systems: an interdisciplinary research agenda | Original Thinking Podcast
February 25, 2021 12:01 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBThis episode will be hosted by Panos Constantinides, Professor of Digital Innovation and Digital Learning Lead for Executive Education at Alliance MBS, who will be discussing artificial intelligence systems. Research into Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems has increasingly moved out of the lab and into organizational and social settings where they affect how people live and behave. This research describes the evolution of technology-assisted driving across the five automation lev...
How large companies can see the future and rethink innovation | Vital Topics | Original Thinking Podcast
February 23, 2021 12:01 - 1 hour - 80 MBAs we look ahead, one thing is clear. The old style of innovation isn’t working. With evolving technologies playing a vital role, and the pace of change not set to slow, now is the time for legacy organisations to be their own catalysts for change and to tap into the wealth of resources that will allow them to compete in the innovation game. What has stopped companies unleashing their potential to innovate and quickly transform? How can legacy companies adopt the tactics and ideas...
Ethical Vanities: The Promise and Pitfalls of Social Responsibility | Original Thinking Podcast
February 18, 2021 12:02 - 55 minutes - 75.6 MBThe belief that corporations have social charter to operate goes back many decades. This has, for better or worse, been encapsulated in more recent discussions of the social responsibility of corporations and can be seen operationalised in the environmental and social positioning of companies. However, despite the promise of corporate social responsibility (CSR) the evidence that it ‘matters’ materially is open to question. In this podcast, Timothy Devinney, Professor of International ...
Ethical Vanities: The promise and pitfalls of social responsibility | Original Thinking Podcast
February 18, 2021 12:02 - 55 minutes - 75.6 MBThe belief that corporations have social charter to operate goes back many decades. This has, for better or worse, been encapsulated in more recent discussions of the social responsibility of corporations and can be seen operationalised in the environmental and social positioning of companies. However, despite the promise of corporate social responsibility (CSR) the evidence that it ‘matters’ materially is open to question. In this podcast, Timothy Devinney, Professor of Internatio...
In conversation with David Gregson and his Young People's Wellbeing Programme | Original Thinking Podcast
February 04, 2021 12:01 - 29 minutes - 27.5 MBIn today's podcast we are delighted to be joined by businessman and philanthropist David Gregson who is here to discuss the Greater Manchester Young People's Wellbeing Programme. During a distinguished corporate career David has sat on the boards of some 30 companies and charities while also co-founding a leading private equity firm. He is also an alumnus of the University of Manchester and sits on the Advisory Board of Alliance Manchester Business School. The Wellbeing Programme,...
Caroline Robert-Cherry | Women Leading in Business - WLiB
February 02, 2021 12:01 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBHosted by Claire-Marie Boggiano, Lurig Change & Development Looking to make new connections and speak with other inspiring and aspiring business people? Brush up on your people skills and join us online for the networking event of the month! Speak to like-minded business women for an amazing online event. Discuss your ideas, share your knowledge and your expertise. Prepare your digital business cards and make new connections in an informal setting. In this podcast we will hear from C...
Caroline Roberts-Cherry | Women Leading in Business - WLiB
February 02, 2021 12:01 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBHosted by Claire-Marie Boggiano, Lurig Change & Development Looking to make new connections and speak with other inspiring and aspiring business people? Brush up on your people skills and join us online for the networking event of the month! Speak to like-minded business women for an amazing online event. Discuss your ideas, share your knowledge and your expertise. Prepare your digital business cards and make new connections in an informal setting. In this podcast we will hear fr...
Applying Psychology at Work: From Heat-stressed Pilots to the Job Demands of Veterinarians | Original Thinking Podcast
January 28, 2021 12:01 - 51 minutes - 70.2 MBThis episode will be hosted by Elinor O'Connor, Professor of Occupational Psychology at Alliance MBS, who discusses how Psychology can help us to understand and manage the impact of a range of work demands on workers’ performance and well-being. Elinor is currently the Director of Teaching and Learning at AMBS, and is a member of the School's Senior Leadership Team. Her interests in the field of work psychology focus on occupational stress and its management, and her work includes rese...
Applying psychology at work: from heat-stressed pilots to the job demands of veterinarians | Original Thinking Podcast
January 28, 2021 12:01 - 51 minutes - 70.2 MBThis episode will be hosted by Elinor O'Connor, Professor of Occupational Psychology at Alliance MBS, who discusses how Psychology can help us to understand and manage the impact of a range of work demands on workers’ performance and well-being. Elinor is currently the Director of Teaching and Learning at AMBS, and is a member of the School's Senior Leadership Team. Her interests in the field of work psychology focus on occupational stress and its management, and her work includes ...
The Value of Human Labour | Work & Equalities Institute
December 17, 2020 14:23 - 1 hour - 84.5 MBThis podcast, the first of two, presents an interdisciplinary discussion of critical issues confronting human labour under COVID-19. The COVID-19 pandemic is having a profound impact on work and working lives. This has ignited an important debate on the value of human labour, which has increased awareness of the criticality of a wide range of jobs, many of which have been traditionally undervalued, both politically and socially. The UK government’s definition of ‘key workers’ amount to...
The value of human labour | Work & Equalities Institute
December 17, 2020 14:23 - 1 hour - 84.5 MBThis podcast presents an interdisciplinary discussion of critical issues confronting human labour under COVID-19. The COVID-19 pandemic is having a profound impact on work and working lives. This has ignited an important debate on the value of human labour, which has increased awareness of the criticality of a wide range of jobs, many of which have been traditionally undervalued, both politically and socially. The UK government’s definition of ‘key workers’ amount to 7.1 million ad...
How is FinTech Innovation shaping the future of finance? | Original Thinking Podcast
December 10, 2020 11:00 - 55 minutes - 51.3 MBIn the last decade we’ve experienced an influx of FinTech start-ups challenging traditional financial institutions and attempting to disrupt the market through new and innovative product propositions. This 'new' FinTech phenomenon brought about a wave of change in financial services which resulted in altered competitive dynamics and shifting industry architecture. In this podcast, Markos Zachariadis, Greensill Chair of Financial Technology (FinTech) and Full Professor of Informatio...
How is FinTech Innovation shaping the Future of Finance? | Original Thinking Podcast
December 10, 2020 11:00 - 55 minutes - 51.3 MBIn the last decade we’ve experienced an influx of FinTech start-ups challenging traditional financial institutions and attempting to disrupt the market through new and innovative product propositions. This 'new' FinTech phenomenon brought about a wave of change in financial services which resulted in altered competitive dynamics and shifting industry architecture. In this podcast, Markos Zachariadis, Greensill Chair of Financial Technology (FinTech) and Full Professor of Information Sy...
Breaking Through Despite the Odds | Teddy Chester Lecture | Original Thinking Podcast
December 03, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 78.3 MBProfessor Dame Elizabeth Anionwu will explore how, despite traumatic experiences in her childhood during the 1950s, she managed to overcome them and achieve success in her adult life. She will reflect on both positive and negative aspects of living in a Children’s Home until the age of 9, followed by being subject to physical abuse at the hands of her stepfather due to her being mixed-race. The reason for choosing a career in nursing will be discussed, together with the background to h...
Breaking through despite the odds | Teddy Chester Lecture | Original Thinking Podcast
December 03, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 78.3 MBProfessor Dame Elizabeth Anionwu will explore how, despite traumatic experiences in her childhood during the 1950s, she managed to overcome them and achieve success in her adult life. She will reflect on both positive and negative aspects of living in a Children’s Home until the age of 9, followed by being subject to physical abuse at the hands of her stepfather due to her being mixed-race. The reason for choosing a career in nursing will be discussed, together with the background ...
• UK Productivity and COVID-19 with Juergen Maier | Vital Topics | Original Thinking Podcast
November 26, 2020 12:19 - 1 hour - 75.6 MBJuergen Maier, former CEO of Siemens UK, discusses his views on the impact of COVID-19 on UK productivity and talks about how industry now needs to work closer than ever before with policymakers and other stakeholders to create a much more focused industrial strategy and address the UK’s productivity puzzle. Juergen was joined by Gurpreet Narwan, economics correspondent at The Times, who facilitated the discussion.
UK Productivity and COVID-19 with Juergen Maier | Vital Topics | Original Thinking Podcast
November 26, 2020 12:19 - 1 hour - 75.6 MBJuergen Maier, former CEO of Siemens UK, discusses his views on the impact of COVID-19 on UK productivity and talks about how industry now needs to work closer than ever before with policymakers and other stakeholders to create a much more focused industrial strategy and address the UK’s productivity puzzle. Juergen was joined by Gurpreet Narwan, economics correspondent at The Times, who facilitated the discussion.
UK productivity and COVID-19 with Juergen Maier | Vital Topics | Original Thinking Podcast
November 26, 2020 12:19 - 1 hour - 75.6 MBJuergen Maier, former CEO of Siemens UK, discusses his views on the impact of COVID-19 on UK productivity and talks about how industry now needs to work closer than ever before with policymakers and other stakeholders to create a much more focused industrial strategy and address the UK’s productivity puzzle. Juergen was joined by Gurpreet Narwan, economics correspondent at The Times, who facilitated the discussion.
How to influence people's feelings (part 2) | Original Thinking Podcast
November 26, 2020 11:27 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBHow do we connect with others around us and build strong working relationships? How do we boost morale and motivation or stimulate people to fight for social justice? Karen’s event was so engaging that we ran out of time during the event for her to answer the many questions posed to her, so she kindly agreed to follow up on these after the event. This allowed her to delve even deeper into the subject in this interview. In this podcast, Karen Niven, Professor of Organisational Psyc...
How to influence people's feelings | Original Thinking Podcast
November 19, 2020 13:15 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MBHow do we connect with others around us and build strong working relationships? How do we boost morale and motivation or stimulate people to fight for social justice? In this podcast, Karen Niven, Professor of Organisational Psychology at Alliance MBS, will argue that the key to achieving these goals is shaping other people’s feelings. She will provide an overview of her research programme on this topic of ‘interpersonal emotion regulation’, considering how and why we strategically...
How humans judge machines | Original Thinking Podcast
October 21, 2020 13:32 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBHow would you feel about losing your job to a machine? How about a tsunami alert system that fails? Would you react differently to acts of discrimination performed by a machine or a human? Honorary Professor at Alliance MBS César A. Hidalgo discusses the findings from his latest book How Humans Judge Machines in a discussion facilitated by Dr Kieron Flanagan, Senior Lecturer in Science and Technology Policy at Alliance MBS. How Humans Judge Machines compares people’s reactions ...
How Humans Judge Machines
October 21, 2020 13:32 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBHow would you feel about losing your job to a machine? How about a tsunami alert system that fails? Would you react differently to acts of discrimination performed by a machine or a human? Honorary Professor at Alliance MBS César A. Hidalgo discusses the findings from his latest book How Humans Judge Machines in a discussion facilitated by Dr Kieron Flanagan, Senior Lecturer in Science and Technology Policy at Alliance MBS. How Humans Judge Machines compares people’s reactions to a...