381: Who's Really Responsible When AI Gets It Wrong? Bloomberg Beta's James Cham on Power, Morality, and the Case for Removing Humans from the Loop

381: Who's Really Responsible When AI Gets It Wrong? Bloomberg Beta's James Cham on Power, Morality, and the Case for Removing Humans from the Loop

From AI and the Future of Work: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace, Business, Ethics, HR, and IT for AI Enthusiasts, Leaders and Academics by Dan Turchin

March 23, 2026 · 46 min · Season 7 · Episode 381

About this episode

James Cham discusses the implications of AI failures and the moral responsibilities associated with them.

Send us Fan Mail James Cham is a Partner at Bloomberg Beta, the venture capital firm recognized by CB Insights as the #2 investor in AI. He has spent years backing the companies quietly building the infrastructure of tomorrow's economy, including Orbital Insight, Primer, Domino Data Labs, and AppZen. A Harvard CS graduate and MIT MBA, James brings a rare combination of technical depth, philosophical seriousness, and long-horizon investing perspective to every conversation. In this...

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Host: Dan Turchin

Guest: James Cham

Topics covered

  • AI ethics
  • responsibility in AI
  • venture capital
  • technology infrastructure
  • business morality
  • human oversight in AI

Keywords

  • AI responsibility
  • venture capital
  • Bloomberg Beta
  • technology ethics
  • human oversight
  • business investment
  • AI infrastructure

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bloomberg Beta, CB Insights, Orbital Insight, Primer, Domino Data Labs, AppZen

Places: Harvard, MIT

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