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As AI usage accelerates, companies need to avoid cognitive debt & decay among their talent - Thomson Reuters Institute

corneliawalther.bsky.social @corneliawalther.bsky.social · 2d

As AI expands into more tasks at work, organizations must adopt a human-first approach and intentionally build hybrid intelligence by pairing AI literacy with human literacy to avoid decreased brain performance and agency decay #ProSocialAI

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As AI expands into more tasks at work, organizations must adopt a human-first approach and intentionally build hybrid intelligence & talent.

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corneliawalther.bsky.social @corneliawalther.bsky.social · 3d

AI can help business leaders translate different mindsets and communicate more effectively.

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Can AI Help Us See Beyond Differences to Find Common Ground?

Wharton visiting scholar Cornelia Walther explains how AI can help business leaders translate different mindsets.

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corneliawalther.bsky.social @corneliawalther.bsky.social · 3d

#PlanetaryHealth and #AI are entangled, Understanding their interplay is out best chance for a regenerative future. #ProSocialAI doesn't promise easy answers, make that our choices matter 🌀
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🌀 What do You think?

Why Prosocial AI Matters For The Future Of Planetary Health

Planetary health and AI are deeply entangled. Understanding their interplay is our best hope for a regenerative future. Prosocial AI offers a practical path forward.

Seeing Is Longer Believing. 4 Steps To Escape The AI Video Vortex

corneliawalther.bsky.social @corneliawalther.bsky.social · 7d

My new article on Forbes looks at practical steps to embrace a shift from blind trust to organically evolving knowledge. 🌀 Our best chance to navigate the dizzying video vortex is to invest in our critical thinking muscles. #AgencyAmidAI www.forbes.com/sites/cornel...

The explosion of fake AI videos brings a radical chance to rebuild our information ecosystem on more conscious, deliberate foundations.

Jane Goodall’s Lesson: Rethinking Intelligence

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corneliawalther.bsky.social @corneliawalther.bsky.social · 14d

My new article on Forbes looks at ways to make that Jane Goodall's vision of multiples intelligences relevant in a hybrid world with #HybridIntelligence and #ProSocialAI

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s we forge partnerships between natural and artificial intelligences, have we absorbed the most vital lesson from her research, that intelligence itself is plural?

Why We Need Hybrid Development Goals To Succeed The SDGs

corneliawalther.bsky.social @corneliawalther.bsky.social · 17d

My new article on Forbes looks at ways to move toward Hybrid Development Goals as successors of #Agenda2030

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Beyond 2030 we need hybrid development goals — to harnesses the complementary power of natural and artificial intelligences for human and planetary flourishing.

corneliawalther.bsky.social @corneliawalther.bsky.social · 20d

Ever been to Tasik Cermin in Ipoh, Malaysia ? If not, you might want to check it out - as a blueprint of #ProSocialAI ?https://www.forbes.com/sites/corneliawalther/2025/09/28/the-4h-blueprint-space-prosocial-ai-and-planetary-health/ @forbes.com

A Hybrid Moral Codex for Human-AI Cohabitation

corneliawalther.bsky.social @corneliawalther.bsky.social · 21d

As AI-powered robots become integral to our workplaces, homes and public spaces, the lines between human and machine interaction blur. Hybrid cohabitation necessitates more than technical protocols; it demands a a hybrid moral codex. #ProSocialAI

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For business leaders, embracing a hybrid moral codex must be central to future-proofing operations. Three steps can help navigate a hybrid landscape.

Why AI Is A Human Rights Issue

corneliawalther.bsky.social @corneliawalther.bsky.social · 24d

Exposure to and deprivation of AI is a human rights issue. What we can do about it, individually as consumers and collectively as a society #ProSocialAI #HybridIntelligence 🌀 www.forbes.com/sites/cornel...

AI are an acute human rights challenge, and a paradox; the same technology that liberates some enslaves others. 4 ways to do something as a consumer.

The UNGA Science Summit 2025 Offered A Glimpse On The Future Of AI

corneliawalther.bsky.social @corneliawalther.bsky.social · 28d

UNGA Science Summit - A peek into the future of AI ? www.forbes.com/sites/cornel...

ProSocial AI can serve to ensure that AI serves natural intelligence, as a force for collective flourishing. Here is a peek on what this means

10 Ways to Guard Against Algorithmic Bias and AI Narcissism

corneliawalther.bsky.social @corneliawalther.bsky.social · Sep 18

AI systems consistently favor content created by other AI systems over human-written text. This "self-preference bias" is reshaping how information flows through our digital ecosystem, often in ways we don't even realize.
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The future belongs not to those who can best mimic AI nor those who avoid it, but to those who can dance with natural and artificial forms of intelligence.

September 16 Illuminates Our Path To Prosocial AI

corneliawalther.bsky.social @corneliawalther.bsky.social · Sep 16

Individual ingenuity. Community resilience. National cooperation. Planetary stewardship.

AI might finally serve regenerative rather than extractive purposes. #ProSocialAI patterns 🌀 www.forbes.com/sites/cornel...

On Sept 16th three unrelated historical events converge, creating a lens through which we might glimpse humanity's future with artificial intelligence.

Double Tipping Points: Agency Decay in the Climate-AI Nexus

corneliawalther.bsky.social @corneliawalther.bsky.social · Sep 15

As we enter an era of irreversible climate change and pervasive AI our cognitive responses are not apt to deal with them, and maybe accelerating the risk that both dynamics will harm us and the planet we depend on
#HybridTippingZone
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We are entering an era of irreversible climate changes and all pervasive AI, but our cognitive responses are not ready for it. A new mindset is needed.

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corneliawalther.bsky.social @corneliawalther.bsky.social · Sep 14

AI And (Dis)Ability: Unlocking Human Potential With Technology

For too long, assistive technology has been clunky, stigmatizing and one-size-fits-all. AI is changing that narrative, one prosocial application after the other.

SCIENCE SUMMIT NEW YORK CITY | 2025

corneliawalther.bsky.social @corneliawalther.bsky.social · Sep 14

AI is a tool to an end. If it is harnessed to empower it can dissolve overdue barriers. @forbes.com #ProSocialAI

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Join global science and innovation leaders at the Science Summit 2025 in New York City. Submit your session, connect with peers, and contribute to sustainable development goals through science.

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corneliawalther.bsky.social @corneliawalther.bsky.social · Sep 12

Colonial powers extracted gold. Today's AI operates on a similar model, but instead of mining minerals, it's mining minds.
🌀 #ProSocialAI #HybridIntelligence #AgencyAmidAI @forbes.com

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corneliawalther.bsky.social @corneliawalther.bsky.social · Sep 9

It time to move beyond labels. For leaders looking for measurable returns and competitive positioning, #ProSocial AI transcends ethics to become a business imperative. #ESG #Sustainability 🌀https://www.forbes.com/sites/corneliawalther/2025/09/09/why-prosocial-ai-is-the-new-esg/

Why ProSocial AI Is The New ESG

It time to move beyond labels. For leaders looking for measurable returns and competitive positioning, prosocial AI transcends ethics to become a business imperative.

Regenerative Intent: How AI Can Heal Instead Of Harm

corneliawalther.bsky.social @corneliawalther.bsky.social · Sep 7

A future where AI is a partner in human and ecological flourishing, needs a shift from the vision of extractive optimization to regenerative intent. 4 ways to start 🌀 #ProSocialAI www.forbes.com/sites/cornel...

A future where AI is a partner in human and ecological flourishing, needs a shift from the vision of extractive optimization to regenerative intent. 4 ways to start.

Navigating The Hybrid Tipping Zone. The Choice We Must Make

corneliawalther.bsky.social @corneliawalther.bsky.social · Sep 3

We're traveling through a "Hybrid Tipping Zone"— where AI advancement converges with planetary crisis just as our thinking patterns become permanently altered by algorithmic mediation. #AgencyAmidAI 🌀 #ProSocialAI #HybridIntelligence
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AI development accelerates when planetary stewardship demands coordination and foresight — abilities that require enhanced rather than diminished human judgment.

A ProSocial AI Index: Measuring What Matters For People And Planet

corneliawalther.bsky.social @corneliawalther.bsky.social · Aug 31

The ProSocial AI Index evaluates AI with metrics that matters:
🎯 Tailored to specific communities and contexts
📚 Trained on diverse, representative datasets
🔍 Tested for social, ethical & environmental impact
🚀 Targeted toward measurable prosocial outcomes
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The need for a ProSocial AI Index is urgent. AI systems increasingly cause positive and irreversibly harmful outcomes. We need a standard to assess these capabilities.

Your Words Subtly Shape ChatGPT's Recommendations

corneliawalther.bsky.social @corneliawalther.bsky.social · Aug 26

Ffive simple steps to make sure language does not become a barrier between your intent and ChatGTP 🌀#HybridIntelligence
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Your words have power, especially in a hybrid world. And with an understanding of biases built into chatbots, you will know better how to use them.

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corneliawalther.bsky.social @corneliawalther.bsky.social · Aug 22

Malaysia illustrates the crossroads of past and future. Criticized in Geneva for plastic negotiation blockage and positioning itself as an “AI Nation, it could export a model others follow: growth with grace. Forbes looks at the potential #ProSocialAI path forward 🌀
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corneliawalther.bsky.social @corneliawalther.bsky.social · Aug 22

One Google’s Gemini query = nine seconds of TV. Disclosing this information is interesting — but incomplete. Transparency remains piecemeal, which means that we, as much as policymakers, and most businesses are navigating blind.
Can we manage what we can't measure?

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Google Wants You to Know the Environmental Cost of Quizzing Its AI

The tech giant has released details on the colossal amount of power required to respond to our everyday AI queries.

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corneliawalther.bsky.social @corneliawalther.bsky.social · Aug 21

#ProSocialAI and Islamic Finance share a foundation of common principles - that could reshape how we think about technology in finance 🌀https://www.forbes.com/sites/corneliawalther/2025/08/21/prosocial-ai-meets-islamic-finance-values-driven-tech-revolution/

ProSocial AI Meets Islamic Finance: Values-Driven Tech Revolution

ProSocial AI and Islamic finance come from different contexts, yet share a commitment to justice and human wellbeing that may reshape how we think about technology in finance.