E16 - Kirsten KP Patterson on Governance and Tech

Kirsten 'KP' Patterson is the Chief Executive of the Institute of Directors (IoD) New Zealand that has over 10,500 members.

In this conversation we talk about all things governance, corporate and not for profit, climate, some trends in the tech industry including AI and DAOs, and a favourite topic of mine - responsibility - where is the parental supervision?  ---------------- Timestamps: 01:31 IoD; for-profits & NFP 08:00 climate  14:35 why do we need boards?    18:00 tech trends at board-level 24:03 AI thoughts 29:22 copyright & data 33:21 DAOs  40:06 who's responsible? 44:14 FTX had no board 50:54 an NZ rugby story 52:46 rapid fire 55:57 fin  ---------------- Some notes from the show:

• Institue of Directors https://www.iod.org.nz/
• Air New Zealand Hydrogen fuel cell powered aircraft https://archive.ph/3GXLz
• Global Network of Director Institutes http://gndi.org/
• chatGPT & data privacy https://theconversation.com/chatgpt-is-a-data-privacy-nightmare-if-youve-ever-posted-online-you-ought-to-be-concerned-199283 
• National Party uses AI  in ads https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/24/new-zealand-national-party-admits-using-ai-generated-people-in-ads?ref=dl-staging-website.ghost.io
• AI in the boardroom (VITAL) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4339413 
• FTX's woes (Harvard Business Review) https://hbr.org/2022/12/ftx-and-the-problem-of-unchecked-founder-power
• Elizabeth Holmes 11-year prison sentence https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/what-elizabeth-holmes-did-theranos-prison-b2348733.html 
• Wellington Homeless Women's Trust https://www.whwt.org.nz/
• Across the board podcast https://www.iod.org.nz/news/articles/across-the-board-podcast/# 

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• Twitter https://twitter.com/iodnz

• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/pattersonkirsten/

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