When AI Levels Up: Is CSR Ready for What’s Next? | AI EXPLAINED

Melanie Kubin-Hardewig, VP Group Corporate Responsibility at Deutsche Telekom, is back on the podcast – to share the most visible changes brought about by AI in the field of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility). This includes Deutsche Telekom’s current CSR-Report. Thanks to AI, vast amounts of global data have been analyzed by the team and the report itself has been optimized for AI-readability for the first time. However, AI not only changes processes, but also its own footprint: the electricity consumption of AI applications could increase tenfold, and the water requirements of data centers could reach the level required by entire countries. In this episode, we speak about the next level of AI, systemic conflicts of interest, and how CSR evolves in parallel.