A Systemic Issue That’s Gone Global: How AI and Inequality Are Costing Business
Lauren Compere, Head of Stewardship and Engagement at Boston Common Asset Management, unpacks how AI and social inequality have become global systemic risks that businesses can’t afford to ignore.Compere explains why the U.S. remains the “wild west” of AI regulation, how inequality creates real business and investment risks, and why companies must invest in workforce resilience, supply chains, and crisis management to stay competitive.
She also highlights how ignoring inequality carries massive economic consequences through indirect costs, noting that between 2020 and 2023, the indirect productivity loss from environmental disasters totaled $4 trillion—more than 500 times the direct cost.
Key Takeaways:
– AI is a “systemic issue that is a global phenomenon.”
– The United States is the “wild west” when it comes to AI regulation.
– Many inequality issues are ordinary business risks.
– Investing in workforce and talent acquisition and building resilient supply chains are fundamental issues.
– “When there’s environmental degradation and environmental issues, there’s always human rights issues.”
– Companies need to be more flexible and nimble in dealing with the chaos of the current world
– The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for businesses to have better crisis management.
Timestamps:
00:49 - About Lauren Compere and her work
02:57 - AI as a systemic risk
04:59 - AI regulations
06:17 - Inequality as a risk and the approach of investors
08:03 - The link between social inequality and natural risks
09:18 - The importance of companies addressing inequalities
Filmed at the 2025 Shift Business Workshop hosted by Shift and Harvard Business School’s Institute for Business in Global Society (BiGS), which focused on examining inequality as a systemic issue.
See more on BiGS research related to AI:
https://www.hbs.edu/bigs/ai-and-society
The Shift project: https://shiftproject.org/ Receive SMS online on sms24.me
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