With the AI revolution transforming businesses, enhancing productivity, automating processes and fueling innovation, it comes with very high ethical, social, and environmental expenses. Andrea Ruotolo, Rockwell Automation’s Global Customer Sustainability Head and Fulbright Ph.D., is leading the charge to put responsibility at the heart of AI innovation. With experience in innovation and sustainability, she creates an ethics-driven framework for Responsible AI—based on fairness, transparency, privacy, accountability, and sustainability—to assist businesses globally in establishing trust, strategic growth, and long-term positive impacts.
In today’s rapidly evolving AI landscape, Andrea Ruotolo, Fulbright Ph.D. and Global Head of Customer Sustainability at Rockwell Automation, emphasizes the critical need for ethics and responsibility. With AI adding $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030, organizations have unparalleled potential—and risk. Andrea espouses a future-oriented, principle-based approach to Responsible AI that builds trust, inspires innovation, and compliance. Her expertise includes seasoned entrepreneurial flexibility and deep international sustainability background. Embracing information-based innovation, stakeholder engagement, and information-based vision, she calls on organizations to focus on AI innovation that matches environment stewardship, value creation in society, and competitiveness of sustainability.
Andrea Ruotolo believes that with the visibility of Responsible AI in the C-suite, decision-making can be strategic, data-driven, and deliver highest operating performance, and unite business-critical functions with sustainability. With the assurance of transparency, explainability, and aversion to bias, Responsible AI can be made equitable and trustworthy. Responsible AI can even support cross-functional teamwork and ongoing learning, freeing innovation from productivity. While AI ethical leadership is the heart of business culture, business leaders are empowered to seek and monitor environmental and social prints, gaining investors’ trust and ESG-investor-oriented capital. Andrea reminds us Responsible AI is not compliance but the source of sustained success and durable competitive advantage.
Celebrated by Chief Women Leaders as Top Leader on Responsible AI for Sustainability, Andrea Ruotolo’s leadership exemplifies how organizations can harness AI’s transformative power while upholding core values of transparency, fairness, and sustainability.
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