What Makes a Sustainable Business? with Srini Koushik, President Technology, Sustainability, and AI at Rackspace

CIO Exchange Podcast

hat does it mean to be a truly sustainable business? What factors should be included in the definition of 'sustainability'? In this episode, Yadin sits down with Srini Koushik, President of Technology, Sustainability, and AI at Rackspace. The two discuss the 'Three E’s' of sustainability that should be top of mind for tech leaders and delve into examples of how this framework applies to recent technologies. They specifically dissect the sustainable use of AI and explore the various considerations regarding how to employ it."
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Key Quotes:

“As technologists, we live and operate in an environment that has the ability to impact this in a meaningful way. How you choose the technologies you use, how you consume it, how do you kind of make it available to a broader subset of people so that they can enjoy the benefits that technology brings, those are all things under our control.”

“As technology leaders, we're going to have to be a lot more conscious about the decisions we make as to where you use technology and how you do that. I think the sustainability framework we've been talking about gives you a much better, it's not that you're not going to make mistakes, but, it will be, it'll kind of weed out some of the really bad ideas very quickly”.

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Timestamps:

(00:50) Sustainability beyond the “green aspect”

(02:01) The three “E’s” of sustainability

(04:29) Applying the three E’s to AI

(06:46) Ethical and “green” use of AI

(09:40) AI to augment humans

(18:00) The evolution of the definition of sustainability

(23:07) The progression of technology and human knowledge

(27:55) We broke it, and we can fix it

(31:32) Will AI reach everyone equally?

(33:02) Call to action for technology leaders

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Links:

Srini Koushik on LinkedIn

CIO Exchange on Twitter
Yadin Porter de León on Twitter

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