A company can have the best intentions, investing in (what it thought were) all the right things, and still experience opposition from within the community. Without the acceptance of the community, firms find themselves dealing with “never-ending demands” from “local troublemakers” hearing that “the company has done nothing for us”-all resulting in costs, financial and nonfinancial, 5 that weigh projects down. The colloquial version of this is the distinction between what one could do and what one should do-just because something is technically possible and economically feasible doesn’t mean that the people it affects will find it morally acceptable. Mining companies, like companies in many industries, have been struggling with the difference between having a legal license to operate and a moral 4 one. 3Įxplore the AI and cognitive technologies collection 2 By 2015, the government had bought back a petroleum exploration license covering 500,000 hectares across the region. The group soon became instrumental in establishing the anti-CSG movement, a movement whose activism resulted in the NSW government suspending gas exploration licenses in the area in 2014. That drilling rig, however, was enough to push them into action.
They had never heard of the coal seam gas (CSG) industry, nor had they previously considered activism.
Three friends were having morning tea on a farm in the Northern Rivers region in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, when they noticed a drilling rig setting up in a neighbor’s property on the opposite side of the valley. Obviously, the money does not buy us the goodwill we need, but I have no idea where we are missing the point.” 1 We still face work interruptions from the communities we help. AI and ethics: A question of social license? “My company spends US$7 million per year on community programs. The concept of social license to operate, where a firm openly works with the communities that will be affected by its actions to gain their trust and acceptance, offers an approach for crafting AI solutions that are acceptable to stakeholders.
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