Weekly Web Harvest for 2025-07-20

  • AI Oversight Is Becoming a Board Issue
    Both AI and ESG encompass a wide breadth of corporate issues, with considerable overlap, including:

    Environmental—As AI models grow in size and complexity, so does the necessary computer processing power, which can carry a very large carbon footprint.
    Social—Companies that deploy AI for hiring, lending, housing, or insurance decisions need to consider ways to assess and, if necessary, remediate potential discrimination associated with those initiatives. Some AI applications have also been criticized for exacerbating income inequality, displacing large numbers of jobs, facilitating human rights abuses, and manipulating individuals’ behavior.
    Governance—For AI programs to meet increasing regulatory requirements, as well as emerging ethical standards, the risks described above must be identified and mitigated through appropriate corporate governance, including policies, procedures, training and oversight.

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  • Rappers, sorted by the size of their vocabulary
    It compares the number of unique words used by some of the most famous artists in hip hop (that is, an example of a quantitive view of lyricism, once proposed by Tahir Hemphill). I used each artist’s first 35,000 lyrics. This way, prolific artists, such as Jay-Z, can be compared to newer artists, such as Drake.