Responsible Digital Leadership Project

by Spencer Cova

As part of Stanford University’s Initiative on Responsible Digital Leadership in the Financial Sector, this podcast seeks to identify ethical dilemmas related to tech and advanced processing (data management and analytics, use of algorithmic tools, AI/ML). A diverse group of grad/post-grad/PHD-students from 22 different countries will collect and analyze possible dilemmas in collaboration with an international group of financia ...   ...  Read more

Podcast episodes

  • Season 1

  • Reeya Pimple

    Reeya Pimple

    Reeya Pimple is from Mumbai, India and is currently pursuing a masters degree in data science at the University of Washington. Reeya and Spencer discuss what her culmination of experiences in computer engineering, investment banking, and working in the public sector brought to the Responsible Digital Leadership Project. Reeya shares her thoughts on what type of data should require consent to be collected and shared, the pros and cons of self-regulation in finance, as well as finding commonalities in a group with such culturally and disciplinary diversity.

  • Laura Facci

    Laura Facci

    In the episode we discussed her background as a psychology student, concerns of the development and use of VR from a psychological perspective, cognitive dissonance in the development of AI, greenwashing in finance, moral issues of eating meat, and what it has been like working with people from around the world in this project.

  • Marek Szeles

    Marek Szeles

    We talk to Marek about his experience with the Responsible Digital Leadership project! We talk about his role as a CTO, skepticism and conservatism with AI, and more!

  • Alice Wang

    Alice Wang

    We ask Alice Wang about her experience with the Responsible Digital Leadership project! Alice talks about the epistemic advantages that come from working in a diverse team, the importance of having global discussions and agreements of data ethics, and more!

  • Chris Crespo

    Chris Crespo

    Chris Crespo, From Fast Forward Banking and Nordic Fintech Magazine, joins us and discusses the topics of digital transformation and looming questions of ethics within open banking, as well as the role of governance in distributive banking and blockchain technologies.