"This is going to be the most transformational moment, not just in technology, but in culture and politics of all of our lifetimes."

Three AI pioneers, all of them in Time's Top-100 most influential people in AI, share their views on the past, present and future of this transformational technology.

Guests:

Aidan Gomez, Co-Founder and CEO, Cohere

Mustafa Suleyman, Co-Founder and CEO, Inflection AI

Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist, Meta

World Economic Forum's AI Governance Alliance: wef.ch/AIGA

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2023 was the year we all got to know AI - so where will it take us in 2024?

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In an episode recorded before the escalation of conflict in the Middle East, we hear from two private-sector companies involved in the distribution of food, about how they manage to operate in a war zone like Yemen, which has been in a state of civil war since 2015.

Guests:

Mohamed Nabil Hayel Saeed, Senior Strategic Advisor, HSA

Niels Hougaard, Managing Director, Tetra Pak Arabia

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What do social media content creators make of Davos?

We speak to three YouTubers - with a collective audience in the millions - who were given full access to the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2024 to ask who they met and what stories they would be telling.

Featuring: Jacob Beautemps, @BreakingLab Adanna Steinacker, @houseofadanna Gohar Khan, @goharsguide

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The World Economic Forum just held its Annual Meeting - but what impact will it have on the world beyond Davos?

The people who lead the Forum's work throughout the year tackling the world's most important issues pick the highlights of the week that show how Davos 2024 will make a positive impact.

And we hear clips from some of the most impactful discussions from the Congress Centre.

Davos 2024 sessions featured in this episode:

Opening Concert

Technology in a Turbulent World

Climate and Nature: A Systemic Response Needed

When Climate Impacts Your Health

Thinking through Augmentation

The World in Numbers: Gender Parity

The Right Stuff – A New Relationship with Materials

Transforming Energy Demand

2024 Social Innovation Awards

Special Address by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine

Earth's Wisdom Keepers

Forum reports and initiatives mentioned in the episode:

AI Governance Alliance

Edison Alliance - Impact Report

Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution - Network -

The Global Alliance for Women's Health

Future of Jobs Report

Longevity Economy Principles

How Can Cyber Defenders Win?

No Recovery without Trade and Investment.

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Global Risks Report: the big issues facing leaders at Davos 2024

Meet the Leader

Davos 2024: A conversation with Satya Nadella

Agenda Dialogues

Davos 2024: Technology in a Turbulent World

Davos 2024: Climate and Nature: A Systemic Response Needed

Davos 2024: Addressing the North-South Schism

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What's Dwight from The Office doing in the metaverse? Actor Rainn Wilson joins us, in avatar form, to check out a virtual world created by the World Economic Forum that aims to raise awareness of the impact of climate change on the Arctic and the rest of the world.

We also hear from Gail Whiteman, Professor of Sustainability at the University of Exeter Business School, and Executive Director of Arctic Basecamp on her hopes for action to stop the Earth reaching disastrous tipping points.

And Rebecca Ivey, head of the Global Collaboration Village, tells us how the metaverse can bring people together in a unique way.

The environments shown in images and environmental sounds heard in this episode in the Global Collaboration Village's Climate Tipping Points Hub were developed in partnership with Accenture and Microsoft. The Global Collaboration Village is a World Economic Forum Initiative in Partnership with Accenture and Microsoft

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For a longer interview with Rainn Wilson and Gail Whiteman, listen to our sister podcast, Meet the Leader:

https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/arctic-basecamp-rainn-wilson-gail-whiteman/

Metaverse:

What 20 years of Second Life can teach us about the future of the metaverse

Not just for gamers: how the metaverse might impact your life

Davos 2023 Day 3: global collaboration in the metaverse

Davos 2023: Day 1 - Cooperation in a Fragmented World

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As leading figures from government, business, academia and civil society head to Davos for the Annual Meeting 2024, what are the big global challenges they will be discussing?

The World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report sets out the biggest issues over the short and medium terms, based on a survey of more than 1,400 global risks experts, policy-makers and industry leaders.

This year, the impact of artificial intelligence is felt throughout the report, with rising concern about disinformation and cyberinsecurity.

Gayle Markovitz hears from two of the people who put the report together, Carolina Klint, Managing Director at Marsh McLennan, and Peter Giger, Group Chief Risk Officer at Zurich Insurance.

Links:

Read the Global Risks Report 2024: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-risks-report-2024/

Follow all the action from the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2024 in Davos at wef.ch/wef24 and across social media using the hashtag #WEF24.

Forum Agenda blogs:

Global Risk Report 2024: The risks are growing — but so is our capacity to respond

How to build business resilience in an era of risk turbulence

Previous episodes on the Global Risks Report:

Welcome to the age of the polycrisis: the Global Risks Report 2023

Instability, inflation and the 'polycrisis' - the Global Risks Report half a year on

Related episodes:

2023 was the year we all got to know AI - so where will it take us in 2024?

What are semiconductors, and why are they vital to the global economy?

Disease X - how the world can stop the next pandemic

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Radio Davos is a podcast that is as wide-ranging and thought-provoking as the work of the World Economic Forum itself. Rather than being restricted to any one topic, each week it focuses on a particular issue of global importance, such as macro-economics, the environment, technology, health, social inequalities and much more - always seeking solutions to the big problems

On this episode we listen back to a selection of episodes from 2023.

Episodes featured:

Davos 2023 Day 5: Inflation, AI, and women of influence

Welcome to the age of the polycrisis: the Global Risks Report 2023

The rise of AI and the green transition will transform the way we work: Future of Jobs Report 2023

AI: Why everyone's talking about the promise and risks of this 'powerful wild beast'

Beyond AI: the top-10 tech of 2023 set to change our lives

Disease X - how the world can stop the next pandemic

Below the Belt: the movie that lifts the taboo on endometriosis

Quality over quantity: why the time has come for 'value based health care'

"Not just sticks of carbon" - how growing trees for the climate must also benefit biodiversity

Read more:

The World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2024:

https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2024/

Global Risks Report 2023: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-risks-report-2023/

The Future of Jobs Report 2023: https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-report-2023/

AI Governance Alliance: https://initiatives.weforum.org/ai-governance-alliance/home

Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2023: https://www.weforum.org/publications/top-10-emerging-technologies-of-2023/

Global Gender Gap Report 2023: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-gender-gap-report-2023/

related podcast episode:

How COVID and cost of living hit progress on equality: the Global Gender Gap Report 2023

https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/gender-gap-report-2023/

Global Coalition for Value in Healthcare https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-coalition-for-value-in-healthcare/home

Centre for Nature and Climate https://centres.weforum.org/centre-nature-and-climate/home

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As 2023 draws to a close and the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting approaches, we look at an issue that will be on everyone’s lips in Davos: artificial intelligence.

Cathy Li, head of AI at the Forum tells us about the work of the AI Governance Alliance, which has brought stakeholders together to seek the best way for humans to oversee the rapid rise of the technology.

And we hear from a handful of the stakeholders who attended the AI Governance Summit in November:

Sara Hooker, VP of Research at Cohere and leader Cohere For AI

Sabastian Niles, President & Chief Legal Officer, Salesforce

Andrew Ng, Founder, Coursera and DeepLearning.AI

Khalfan Belhoul, Chief Executive Officer, Dubai Future Foundation

Links:

For more on the AI Governance Alliance: wef.ch/AIGA

The Presidio Principles

Related podcasts: Radio Davos mini-series on generative AI:

AI: Why everyone's talking about the promise and risks of this 'powerful wild beast'

A common good? The companies making the AI products we'll soon all be using

Responsible AI: how can philosophy help us make better tech?

'AI will either compete with us or augment us' - so how do we pick the right path?

AI: Bringing stakeholders together to make AI work for us all

Other related episodes: AI - What could possibly go wrong?: Professor Stuart Russell

Technology that transforms: what an invention from 1450 can teach us about AI

The rise of AI and the green transition will transform the way we work: Future of Jobs Report 2023

COVID transformed the world of work, but AI’s impact will be much bigger

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If you’re a ‘digital native’ - someone who can’t remember a world before the internet - you might feel you have a good idea of the role technology will play in your life and perhaps in that of future generations.

But journalism professor Jeff Jarvis, author of a history of another transformative technology from more than five centuries ago - the printing press - says we can have no way yet of knowing where the internet, and AI, will take us.

The book is called The Gutenberg Parenthesis. Jeff spoke to us at the World Economic Forum's AI Governance Summit.

AI Governance Alliance:

wef.ch/AIGA

AI Governance Summit:

https://www.weforum.org/events/ai-governance-summit-2023/

Podcast links:

AI Governance Summit 2023: State of Gen AI: Views from the Frontier

AI Governance Summit 2023: Gen AI: New Age of Governance

AI Governance Summit: Transformation on the Horizon

AI: Bringing stakeholders together to make AI work for us all

Beyond AI: the top-10 tech of 2023 set to change our lives

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Plastics pollution is a very visible, global environmental and health challenge, and last year the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) launched a process to draft a global treaty aimed at solving the problem.

Earlier this week, delegations from all over the world met in Nairobi to work on the first full draft of a treaty that could set binding rules that would affect the production, use and disposal of plastics.

To get a readout of what happened there, and what might happen next, we hear from Kwame Asamoa Mensa-Yawson, head of the Ghana National Plastic Action Partnership, a multistakeholder group looking at solutions to the plastics issue, under the auspices of the World Economic Forum.

Guests and links:

Kwame Asamoa Mensa-Yawson, head of the Ghana National Plastic Action Partnership

Bethanie Carney-Almroth, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty

Kristian Syberg, Roskilde University and Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty

Eline Leising, Regional Program Manager, Enviu

Jodie Roussell, Global Public Affairs Lead - Packaging & Sustainability Nestlé

João Ribeiro-Bidaoui, Global Affairs Special Envoy, The Ocean Cleanup

Le Ngọc Tuan, delegate to INC-3 from Ministry of Environment of Viet Nam

Podcast links:

Related episodes:

A Paris Agreement for plastics

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