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Léa Steinacker

Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer of ada

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  • Dr. Léa Steinacker is an award-winning journalist, entrepreneur, and social scientist with a PhD in the social dimensions of artificially intelligent systems (AI). Her work focuses on how technology interacts with people, organizations, and the planet.

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About Dr. Léa Steinacker

Léa Steinacker, PhD, is a social scientist, bestselling author, board member, and award-winning entrepreneur focused on how technology interacts with people, practices, and the planet.

Her 2024 book on artificial intelligence, co-written with Prof. Dr. Miriam Meckel became an instant national bestseller.

For about a decade, she has researched the widespread impact of emerging technologies like AI, with publications on a range of topics like automated facial recognition, synthetic voice generation, quantum computing, as well as my original framework of Code Capital. With her expertise in emerging technologies and their wide-ranging effects, she is a member of the Board of Directors of Weleda AG, and a member of the AI Advisory Board of Ringier AG, one of Switzerland’s leading media companies, and a lecturer at the University of St. Gallen, teaching courses like “Social and Economic Impacts of Artificial Intelligence.

In 2018, she co-founded and is now the Executive Chairwoman of ada Learning to accelerate organizational change by identifying, transforming, and uniting leaders who amplify innovation from within. Since its inception, ada has connected and worked with thousands of employees from DAX companies, SMEs, governments, and civil society organizations.

Previously, she served as the Chief Innovation Officer of WirtschaftsWoche, Germany’s leading business magazine, where she also covered the future of work and socio-technological change. Prior to joining Handelsblatt Media Group, she worked with social justice NGOs in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She was selected as a Forbes 30 Under 30 leader, one of Medium Magazine’s Top 30 Under 30 journalists, a BCG Thought Leader, and an Atlantik Brücke Young Leader. In 2011, she was awarded the Henry Richardson Labouisse Prize for independent research.

Léa holds degrees from Princeton University (A.B.), the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (MPP), and the University of St. Gallen (PhD).

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Books

Alles überall auf einmal: Wie Künstliche Intelligenz unsere Welt verändert und was wir dabei gewinnen können

Wir erleben den «iPhone-Moment» der künstlichen Intelligenz, die Technologie ist erstmals für jede und jeden verfügbar. Damit stehen wir an einer entscheidenden Schwelle unserer kulturellen Evolution. Alles verändert sich überall auf einmal. Miriam Meckel und Léa Steinacker zeigen die Chancen auf, die der Schritt über diese Schwelle birgt. Wir müssen nicht fürchten, als Menschen abgeschafft zu werden, denn: Alles, was die KI tut, geht zurück auf die Art und Weise, wie wir mit ihr umgehen. Das heißt aber auch: Wir stehen genau jetzt vor der Aufgabe, ihre Entwicklung in die richtigen Bahnen zu lenken. Doch wie gelingt das, und wo lauern Risiken, unerwünschte Nebeneffekte, ethische Dilemmata – ob in der Arbeitswelt, in der Wirtschaft, in den menschlichen Beziehungen oder im Alltag? Welche Fragen klären wir besser heute als morgen, sei es im Umgang mit selbstfahrenden Autos, virtuellen medizinischen Assistenten oder automatisierten Fake News? Wenn wir in einer immer komplexeren Welt mithalten wollen, so Meckel und Steinacker, dann müssen wir auch unsere menschliche Intelligenz erweitern – selbst dabei kann künstliche Intelligenz uns helfen. Auch wir werden uns also verändern. Wie sieht die Welt von morgen aus, wie finden wir uns darin zurecht und entscheiden richtig? Dieses Buch weist den Weg. ——— Everything everywhere at once How artificial intelligence is changing our world and what we can gain from it We are experiencing the “iPhone moment” of artificial intelligence; the technology is available to everyone for the first time. We are therefore at a crucial threshold in our cultural evolution. Everything changes everywhere at once. Miriam Meckel and Léa Steinacker show the opportunities that step over this threshold offers. We don’t have to fear being abolished as humans because everything AI does goes back to the way we interact with it. But that also means that right now we are faced with the task of getting their development on the right track. But how does this work, and where do risks, undesirable side effects and ethical dilemmas lurk – whether in the world of work, in business, in human relationships or in everyday life? What questions can we clarify better today than tomorrow, be it when dealing with self-driving cars, virtual medical assistants or automated fake news? If we want to keep up in an increasingly complex world, say Meckel and Steinacker, then we also have to expand our human intelligence – artificial intelligence can even help us with this. So we too will change. What will the world of tomorrow look like, how do we find our way around it and make the right decisions? This book shows the way.

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Alles überall auf einmal: Wie Künstliche Intelligenz unsere Welt verändert und was wir dabei gewinnen können

Wir erleben den «iPhone-Moment» der künstlichen Intelligenz, die Technologie ist erstmals für jede und jeden verfügbar. Damit stehen wir an einer entscheidenden Schwelle unserer kulturellen Evolution. Alles verändert sich überall auf einmal. Miriam Meckel und Léa Steinacker zeigen die Chancen auf, die der Schritt über diese Schwelle birgt. Wir müssen nicht fürchten, als Menschen abgeschafft zu werden, denn: Alles, was die KI tut, geht zurück auf die Art und Weise, wie wir mit ihr umgehen. Das heißt aber auch: Wir stehen genau jetzt vor der Aufgabe, ihre Entwicklung in die richtigen Bahnen zu lenken. Doch wie gelingt das, und wo lauern Risiken, unerwünschte Nebeneffekte, ethische Dilemmata – ob in der Arbeitswelt, in der Wirtschaft, in den menschlichen Beziehungen oder im Alltag? Welche Fragen klären wir besser heute als morgen, sei es im Umgang mit selbstfahrenden Autos, virtuellen medizinischen Assistenten oder automatisierten Fake News? Wenn wir in einer immer komplexeren Welt mithalten wollen, so Meckel und Steinacker, dann müssen wir auch unsere menschliche Intelligenz erweitern – selbst dabei kann künstliche Intelligenz uns helfen. Auch wir werden uns also verändern. Wie sieht die Welt von morgen aus, wie finden wir uns darin zurecht und entscheiden richtig? Dieses Buch weist den Weg. ——— Everything everywhere at once How artificial intelligence is changing our world and what we can gain from it We are experiencing the “iPhone moment” of artificial intelligence; the technology is available to everyone for the first time. We are therefore at a crucial threshold in our cultural evolution. Everything changes everywhere at once. Miriam Meckel and Léa Steinacker show the opportunities that step over this threshold offers. We don’t have to fear being abolished as humans because everything AI does goes back to the way we interact with it. But that also means that right now we are faced with the task of getting their development on the right track. But how does this work, and where do risks, undesirable side effects and ethical dilemmas lurk – whether in the world of work, in business, in human relationships or in everyday life? What questions can we clarify better today than tomorrow, be it when dealing with self-driving cars, virtual medical assistants or automated fake news? If we want to keep up in an increasingly complex world, say Meckel and Steinacker, then we also have to expand our human intelligence – artificial intelligence can even help us with this. So we too will change. What will the world of tomorrow look like, how do we find our way around it and make the right decisions? This book shows the way.