How should investors respond to artificial intelligence’s growing influence on human rights, society and the environment?
Recorded at the RIAA Conference Aotearoa NZ 2026 in Auckland, Dr Rodger Spiller speaks with Estelle Parker, Co-CEO of the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA), about the Ethical Investment Guide to Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights and what it means for individual investors.
An initiative of the Ethical Advisers’ Co-op and RIAA, the Guide helps investors understand AI’s opportunities and risks and ask informed questions about how their money is invested.
Our conversation explores misinformation, inequality, bias in decision-making and access to AI, alongside the environmental pressures associated with data centres, including water use and carbon emissions.
We discuss practical questions investors can ask their financial advisers, fund managers and the companies they invest in. As businesses rapidly expand their use of AI, do their existing climate, net-zero and nature strategies adequately address its impacts? What should investors look for to assess whether companies are managing these issues responsibly?
Read the full post and watch the episode on Money Matters →
Produced by Dr Rodger Spiller and Money Matters. First published on the Money Matters website.
