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How to examine your company’s exposure to ESG risk in AI systems

AI systems could be responsible for up to $3.9 tn in value creation, but pose potential ESG risks, write Marc Lepere and Andrew Susman Endemic failures in ESG issues cause public harm, can ruin a business’ reputation and ultimately even threaten its existence. But there remains one sector not subject to ESG impact and risk disclosures: responsible artificial intelligence and autonomous systems (AI systems). To overlook AI systems in any material dataset of ESG metrics can be likened to building the spine of responsible business and omitting the spinal cord at its center.