Digital Leadership Series

Led by experts from academia and industry, this virtual forum examines broader societal and macroeconomic consequences of technology.

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Bhaskar Chakravorti

Artificial Insecurity: Why AI Will Worsen Social Fragility and How Business Leaders Must Act to Narrow the Gap

Professor Bhaskar Chakravorti
Dean of Global Business, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy
Tufts University

May 7, 2025
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

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Join CDT Director Vijay Gurbaxani in a conversation with Professor Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University, to discuss AI's potential effects on social inequities and the steps that business leaders should take to mitigate them.

AI acceleration will make societies’ existing inequities even worse, and it can erode trust in AI, deter widespread adoption, and limit the technology’s productivity benefits. This can be a difficult problem to fix. For one, the inequality is created not by a single societal fracture, but many. Two, regulation and policy interventions are being deprioritized. Businesses — both AI producers and adopters — must find their own alternative solutions to fill the policy gap. Solutions may be left to companies whose leaders take on the responsibility. The good news is that company leaders can act to mitigate the risks. Professor Chakravorti will argue that they must consider six different "divides" caused by AI and, in each, consider key levers to effect change: technologies, institutions and markets.

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Past Events

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February 22, 2024

The Economic Impact of Generative AI
Dr. Michael Chui - Partner at the McKinsey Global Institute

November 1, 2023

Achieving Shared Prosperity in The Age Of AI - A Conversation with Simon Johnson
Simon Johnson - Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management

April 18, 2023

The Future of Attention: Reframing our Digital Lives to Promote Wellbeing
Gloria Mark - Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine

September 13, 2022

Confronting Reality in Cyberspace: Foreign Policy for a Fragmented Internet
Nicole Perlroth - Cybersecurity Expert and Advisor at CISA
Adam Segal - Director, Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program, CFR

April 21, 2022

February 1, 2022

RULE OF THE ROBOTS: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Everything
Martin Ford - 
Author, futurist and leading expert on artificial intelligence & robotics

October 7, 2021

The AI Awakening: What It Means For Productivity And Business Performance
Erik Brynjolfsson - Director, Stanford Digital Economy Lab
Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki - Professor and Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI)

September 7, 2021

Advancing Diversity, Equity And Inclusion In The Tech Workplace
Ian O. Williamson - Dean, UCI Paul Merage School of Business
Rashmi Kumar - Chief Information Officer, Global IT, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

July 27, 2021

Building and Managing a Distributed Workforce
Jeetu Patel - Executive Vice President & General Manager, Security & Collaboration, Cisco

February 23, 2021

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
Nicole Perlroth - Reporter of Cybersecurity and Digital Espionage, The New York Times

January 28, 2021

Building a Data Science Organization
Sean J. Taylor - Head of Rideshare Labs, Lyft

September 24, 2020

Digital Transform in a Pandemic: What Companies are Doing and How Government Policy Should Adapt
Victoria Espinel - President and CEO, BSA | The Software Alliance
Ha McNeill - COO, BSA | The Software Alliance

August 5, 2020

The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health
Sinan Aral - Director, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy
David Austin - Professor of IT & Marketing, MIT Sloan School of Management

June 19, 2020

Building Resilience in Uncertain Times
Susan Doniz - CIO and SVP of IT & Data Analytics, The Boeing Company