Foresight with Greg Williams

In this Episode, WIRED's deputy global editorial director, Greg Williams and Marietje Schaake, international policy director at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center explore the rapid growth of big technology and solutions for governments to consider as they look to regulate big technology.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, we explore how AI is currently perceived and the wider societal impacts of AI that are changing how power is concentrated across the world. 

Even though AI infiltrates many aspects of our lives from security, banking and retail through to climate change and politics, most people’s vision of AI is that it’s abstract and immaterial. In this podcast, we’ll discuss how AI is made in a wider sense - the environmental costs, the labour processes and the way that it classifies and shapes the world around us. 

Designed as an extension of WIRED's long-running live conference portfolio, these punchy, deliberate and engaging sessions reflect the same high calibre of speakers and programming featured at a WIRED event.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, Rebecca Henderson, Author of Reimagining Capitalism speaks with WIRED Editor-in-Chief, Greg Williams to discuss how we can develop models that deliver strong economic growth that ensures prosperity and wellbeing for human beings while also protecting and nurturing the planet.

“We need to think of ourselves as an integrated world where we can’t escape. We have a joint destiny. Hopefully the pandemic will begin to make us think about global cooperation in a different way.” - Rebecca Henderson

Designed as an extension of WIRED's long-running live conference portfolio, these punchy, deliberate and engaging sessions reflect the same high calibre of speakers and programming featured at a WIRED event.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In a digital world, how do we build empathy into the algorithms that run our lives? WIRED UK's editor, Greg Williams sat down with Rana el Kaliouby, co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, and author of 'Girl Decoded' to discuss how to bring emotional intelligence to technology during a global health emergency, such as the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020.

Designed as an extension of WIRED's long-running live conference portfolio, these punchy, deliberate and engaging sessions reflect the same high calibre of speakers and programming featured at a WIRED event.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Noreena Hertz, who is a renowned economist and author of The Lonely Century (one of WIRED’s picks for the best books of 2020) explores why this is the lonely century, how we got here and what each of us can do to help reduce loneliness for ourselves and our communities.

"With one in five adults, saying that they felt lonely often or all of the time, with one in five millennials saying that they didn't have a single friend at all and with 40% of office workers, saying that they felt lonely at work" Hertz felt compelled to explore this loneliness phenomenon. 

"As I started looking at this data I realised that we were really, in the midst of a global loneliness crisis, a crisis that was affecting our health or wealth and the state of our democracy."

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, Carissa Véliz, associate professor in philosophy at the Institute for Ethics in AI, Oxford University explores how, in a constantly shifting digital era, we can reclaim our privacy and ensure that data brokers, tech giants and governments collect and use data in ways that consumers approve and are transparent.

Designed as an extension of WIRED's long-running live conference portfolio, these punchy, deliberate and engaging sessions reflect the same high calibre of speakers and programming featured at a WIRED event.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, Pulitzer Prize winner, writer and journalist, Lawrence Wright reveals the oversights and errors that impacted the response the US had to COVID-19, sharing the wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain the virus. His latest book, “The Plague Year” is his testament to the year of COVID-19 in America.

Designed as an extension of WIRED's long-running live conference portfolio, these punchy, deliberate and engaging sessions reflect the same high calibre of speakers and programming featured at a WIRED event.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

WIRED editor Greg Williams and independent policy advisor and bestselling author, Simon Anholt investigate how we can defeat global challenges such as climate change, pandemics, war, poverty, migration and extremism with 'The Good Country Equation' - his formula for empowering governments and future generations to collaborate.

Designed as an extension of WIRED’s long-running live conference portfolio, these punchy, deliberate and engaging sessions reflect the same high calibre of speakers and programming featured at a WIRED event.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What new strategies are retailers adopting to stand out online and retain customers during an e-commerce boom that has been accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic? Shopify's head of EMEA, Shimona Mehta sat down with WIRED editor-in-chief Greg Williams to share how brands are standing out in a crowded e-commerce space.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sana Khareghani, head of the UK government's Office for Artificial Intelligence, talks to WIRED editor Greg Williams to explore the UK government's AI strategy and the role AI will play in helping rebuild the post-Covid economy.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices