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Podcast: New Books in Business, Management, and Marketing
Episode: Alex Pentland and Alexander Lipton, "Building the New Economy: Data As Capital" (MIT Press, 2021)
Description: Data is now central to the economy, government, and health systems—so why are data and the AI systems that interpret the data in the hands of so few people? Alex Pentland and Alexander Lipton's Building the New Economy: Data As Capital (MIT Press, 2021) calls for us to reinvent the ways that data and artificial intelligence are used in civic and government systems. Arguing that we need to think about data as a new type of capital, the authors show that the use of data trusts and distributed ledgers can empower people and communities with user-centric data ownership, transparent and...