The Importance of Responsibility in the Food Industry

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Kraft CEO: There is nothing that we will do that could risk diminishing the powerful appeal that we've built into these products. But for you to stand here and suggest that we're going to mess around with the company jewels, quote unquote, referring to like salt, sugar, fat, because you have to remember that we're not just responsible for our customers. We're responsible for our shareholders. So what's interesting to me here is that in least inside of Kraft, one of the biggest food companies on the planet, there was a sense of responsibility about the harms of their products.

In the next two episodes of Your Undivided Attention, we take a close look at two respective industries: big food and social media, which represent dangerous “races to the bottom” and have big parallels with AI.

And we are asking: what can our past mistakes and missed opportunities teach us about how we should approach AI harms?

In this first episode, Tristan talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Michael Moss. His book Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us rocked the fast food industry when it came out in 2014.

Tristan and Michael discuss how we can leverage the lessons learned from Big Food’s coordination failures, and whether it’s the responsibility of the consumer, the government, or the companies to regulate.

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