Last Week on Earth with GARI
39 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhere technology, science, politics, economy & society meet - think, learn and be entertained a little along the way! Interviews, discussions and latest topics & events that you should know about! GARI is a research institute that uses advanced technology, such as AI with Big Data, to visualise, understand and create the ability to manage globalisation. Your host is GARI Executive Director Odessa Primus.
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Underestimating AI's long-term impact with Google DeepMind's Alexandra Belias
October 04, 2023 11:00 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MBUnderestimating AI's long-term impact - the 21st century's industrial revolution In this episode, we delve into the transformative world of AI, discussing how it's become the Industrial Revolution of the 21st century. Nowcasting: the high-resolution forecasting of rain up to two hours ahead, the generative model that ranked first for its accuracy and usefulness, Alphafold, which can accurately predict 3D models of protein structures and is accelerating research in nearly every field of bi...
The importance of data with Theresa Kushner
July 10, 2023 16:00 - 42 minutes - 29.5 MBTheresa Kushner's journey in the world of high technology serves as an inspiration to aspiring professionals. From her early days in the field of journalism to her influential roles in renowned companies she is a true data-vangelist. Theresa graduated from the Mayborn School of Journalism at the University of North Texas. Over the course of her career, Theresa has held prominent positions in several industry-leading companies. She has showcased her expertise and leadership abilities in org...
M8 Alliance with Ambassador Sampaio
June 25, 2023 10:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBLuís de Almeida Sampaio, the Ambassador from Portugal to the Czech Republic, has held numerous posts around the world and has a deep interest in global health care. In this episode he covers the M8 Alliance. With regards to Ukraine, what has been the war's impact on European healthcare? What changes in the discussions when there is a war like this? How do politics and policy impact the global discussion around health care? What are Portugal's involvements in the M8 alliance? What are the...
Earth's past & future with Director of Max Planck Institute Bjorn Stevens
June 07, 2023 13:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MBBjorn Stevens is the Director of the Max Plank Institute for Meteorology in Berlin - Bjorn is a top climate scientist, with particular expertise in clouds. New climate model simulations of the world - EVE) Earth Virtualisation Engines Human vs science-centric climate science Earth in 100 years Darwin and the theory of e-0volution It's also clear that humans are responsible for global warming and not enough is being done if the goal is to stop the warming, whats the scientific consequen...
Earth's past & future with Director of Max Planck Institute Bjorn Stevenson
June 07, 2023 13:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MBBjorn Stevenson is the Director of the Max Plank Institute for Meteorology in Berlin - Bjorn is a top climate scientist, with particular expertise in clouds. New climate model simulations of the world - EVE) Earth Virtualisation Engines Human vs science-centric climate science Earth in 100 years Darwin and the theory of e-0volution It's also clear that humans are responsible for global warming and not enough is being done if the goal is to stop the warming, whats the scientific consequ...
AI deep fakes - current & future impact with Henry Ajder
May 30, 2023 04:00 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBHenry Ajder, a globally recognised advisor, speaker, and broadcaster working at the frontier of the generative AI and synthetic media revolution. AI-generated deep fakes - their current and future impact, synthetic media How to do news sourcing and verifications and break breaking news as soon as possible? especially when Twitter has become the place for breaking news AI generated fakes are being used to cause stock market manipulation or to target companies to artificially inflate or a...
Stakeholder Capitalism with Sibylle Barden
May 24, 2023 12:00 - 49 minutes - 33.8 MBSibylle Barden is an author and SDG and ESG strategist. She is an early champion of Stakeholder Capitalism. Her latest political novel „The Honeyguide“ was selected by the Frankfurt Book Fair as “one of 8 revolutionary books recommended for film adaptation”. Your host for this episode is Michal Koran, the Founder of the Global Arena Research Institute. Enjoy subscribe and share! Stakeholder capitalism - what is it? Regions are developing or even stagnating unevenly - despite all the funds ...
The Metaverse with Claudia May Del Pozo
May 16, 2023 07:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MBAll there is to know about the metaverse with Claudia May del Pozo, Executive Director of the Eon Resilience Lab, under C Minds, a women-led action tank that works at the intersection of digitalization, new technologies, and society with a strong focus on Latin America. We’re going to be chatting about the metaverse. monopoly on metaverse? or utopian version built on blockchain? when will we have a metaverse? next stage of social media problems: accessibility inclusion privacy and se...
The Progress of AI: AI Index Report 2023 with Nestor Maslej, Stanford HAI
April 24, 2023 07:00 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MBToday’s guest is Stanford Institute of Human Centered AI’s Nestor Maslej here to chat about this year’s AI Index Report - this is the second time we’re here together and I’d highly recommend listening to last year’s episode with Nestor on the 2022 Report. What are the trends, opportunities and challenges in AI from this last year? AI is being used to tangibly increase scientific advancement in energy Tricking chat gpt into building a dirty bomb or listing pirated movie websites Humanity f...
Chat GPT, Destination Earth & progress of science with Peter Bauer of ECMWF
April 13, 2023 09:00 - 49 minutes - 33.9 MBWe chat today about chat GPT, Destination Earth as well as the changing approach to discovery and the advancement of science and technology. Enjoy, subscribe and share! Destination Earth (DestinE), is an ambitious initiative to create a digital twin – an interactive computer simulation – of our planet to empower climate change adaptation and to prevent environmental degradation. As extreme weather becomes increasingly frequent and changes in climate more pronounced, there is an urgent need...
This world isn’t for Europe: Chinese reforms and global decoupling - the Last Week on Earth
March 21, 2023 11:00 - 24 minutes - 17 MBWe’re excited to launch a new series of shorter podcast episodes where we give you a deeper look into what is happening right now globally and regionally and GARI’s insights into it. GARI’s digital twin of the globalised world enables us to do complex analyses and have valuable insight into topics we deal with. Today we delve into the changing landscape of global interconnectedness, regionalization of trade, investment, technological exchange and a close look at China, Russia and Europe. Wit...
(Artificial) Intelligence, law and geopolitics with Joanna Bryson
July 15, 2022 08:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBToday we’re chatting with intelligence expert Joanna Bryson on: The definition of intelligence, artificial and natural? AI as an efficiency tool Putting AI products into ordinary product law How do we perceive the global bi-polar AI situation? Why Google and Apple don’t patent that much China, Russia, Iran, the EU - who, what, and why? with degrees in social and computer sciences from Chicago, Edinburgh, and MIT, Bryson’s research appears in venues from Reddit to Science, and she adv...
(Artificial) Intelligence, law and geopolitics with Joanna Bryson
July 15, 2022 08:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBToday we’re chatting with intelligence expert Joanna Bryson on: The definition of intelligence, artificial and natural? AI as an efficiency tool Putting AI products into ordinary product law How do we perceive the global bi-polar AI situation? Why Google and Apple don’t patent that much China, Russia, Iran, the EU - who, what, and why? with degrees in social and computer sciences from Chicago, Edinburgh, and MIT, Bryson’s research appears in venues from Reddit to Science, and she adv...
New perceptions of the European Union, & it's AI regulation and innovation approaches
July 11, 2022 08:00 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MBToday we are welcoming back Sebastian Hallensleben to talk about the new perception of the EU, the imprecision of the Commissions regulations on AI, the level of technological understanding amongst EU commissioners, the challenges that poses, funding innovation and more. How does interdisciplinary and inter-sector dialogue work in the EU? The European Commission is working on AI regulation, and the regulations are quite imprecise but will eventually have a significant impact on the way we...
2022 AI Index Report by Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI with Nestor Maslej
June 06, 2022 13:00 - 51 minutes - 35.7 MB2022 AI Index Report by Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI The AI Index is an independent initiative. The annual report tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes data relating to artificial intelligence, enabling decision-makers to take meaningful action to advance AI responsibly and ethically with humans in mind. The latest edition includes data from a broad set of academic, private, and nonprofit organizations as well as more self-collected data and original analysis than any pre...
Autonomous weapon systems: now & tomorrow with Frank Sauer
May 20, 2022 11:00 - 50 minutes - 34.4 MB"There are no autonomous weapons, only autonomy in weapons systems" Frank Sauer is a Senior Research Fellow at Bundeswehr University Munich and the Head of Research at the Metis Institute for Strategy and Foresight. He currently serves as a senior advisor on the International Panel on the Regulation of Autonomous Weapons (iPRAW) and as a subject matter expert in the commission on the responsible use of technologies in the European ‘Future Combat Air System’ (FCAS). He is also a leading memb...
Quantum computing and it's applications in industry with Florian Neukart - Terra Quantum
May 03, 2022 08:00 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBToday I’m chatting with Florian Neukart from Terra Quantum about all things quantum, what is quantum physics and technology, how can it be applied and what will it look like in the automotive, medical, pharmacy, finance, and energy sectors, and why is combining the first and second quantum revolutions exciting? To see more of the transcript, please see the transcript ;) What is quantum computing? Where did it start? Difference between referring to quantum physics, science, and computing? ...
Generative AI, the future of Facebook & Quantum Computing with Sebastian Hallensleben
April 13, 2022 14:00 - 39 minutes - 27 MBToday’s podcast with Sebastian Hallensleben includes topics on the impact of generative AI with tools like deep fake, the future of platforms like Facebook and the creation of new platforms for constructive discourse, quantum computing, using a piece of the sun for energy on earth, and lastly, how to fund foundational research. Sebastian Hellensleben is the head of digitalization and AI at VDE, and works on concepts and infrastructures for trust in the digital space. Impact of generative...
Russia's strategy of cognitive dissonance & what will Putin & NATO do next?
April 08, 2022 16:00 - 49 minutes - 33.8 MBWhat is surprising about the Russian aggression toward Ukraine? Is it possible Putin didn’t have contingency plans for partial or total failure? Russian doctrine of power and success Did the Russian intelligence community really get it wrong or did they try to please Putin with their assessment? The problem of cognitive dissonance What will be the biggest challenge now for Ukraine and the Western allies? What will NATO's worth be for countries in Europe if NATO doesn’t react? What wi...
#20 What Putin wants - with Shmuel Bar
February 03, 2022 16:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MBWelcome to the new year of GARI podcasts! We’re excited by our 2022 guest lineup, starting with the brilliant Shmuel Bar! Dr. Bar is the founder and CEO of IntuView – an Israeli based software company that has developed an integrated semantics-driven platform for fully-automated real-time analysis and “meaning mining” of unstructured textual documents in various languages. Dr. Bar served for thirty years in various positions in the Israeli Office of the Prime Minister of Israel. Since 2002...
#19 Science and Diplomacy with William Colglazier
September 06, 2021 04:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MBThis episode’s guest is the American physicist Dr. William Colglazier. With an impressive resume, Colglazier’s long career has taken him to the Secretary of State, where he provided scientific and technical expertise and advice in support of the development and implementation of U.S. foreign policy as a Science and Technology Adviser. Today, he is the Editor-in-Chief of Science & Diplomacy and Senior Scholar in the Center for Science Diplomacy at the American Association for Advancement of S...
#18 The Difference Between R2-D2 and Siri with Alexander Ruiz
September 05, 2021 07:00 - 36 minutes - 24.8 MBOur 18th episode is joined by Alexander Ruiz, Founder of Phaedrus LLC, an engineering company supporting the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community, and Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, who discusses the transforming digital arena and the ensuing threats. Ruiz got into the cyber-digital domain in his early years. Inspired by 90s movies like Top Gun, Alex devoted himself to computer communication. He continued his career in the American Air Force, effectively understanding th...
#17 A Short History of Russia and Why It's Not Mordor with Mark Galeotti
July 02, 2021 07:00 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MBDr Mark Galeotti joins Last Week on Earth for a conversation on Russia. Galeotti, Director of the consultancy firm Mayak Intelligence, Honorary Professor at UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies and Senior Associate Fellow at RUSI, has spent the last 40 years researching Russian history and security issues. In the episode, he gives an introduction his latest book A Short History of Russia while sharing some short anecdotes from Russia's history, specifically about the character that...
#16 Global trends and what we can learn from "Independence Day" with Banning Garrett
May 27, 2021 15:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MBToday’s guest Banning Garrett has over four decades of experience as a strategic thinker, writer and speaker on international relations and global trends. As a consultant to both the World Bank and the United Nations, Garrett writes and speaks on long-term global trends and the impact of exponential technologies. After sixty-one trips to China since 1981 for consultations with Chinese officials and analysts, Garrett has also developed a thorough understanding of Chinese politics and shares h...
#15 The future of European politics with Joachim Bitterlich
May 20, 2021 04:00 - 45 minutes - 31.6 MBIn this episode the European legend Joachim Bitterlich, former advisor to German Chancellor Kohl and member of JEDI (Joint European Disruptive Initiative), joins us for a discussion on contemporary European affairs. Tune in for a conversation on the current, most pressing issues like strategic autonomy, Franco-German relations, the upcoming German elections and lastly Turkey and the EU. Bitterlich also shares a historical look back at the history of the EU and what could have been done diff...
#14 Possibilities of AI & Human Rights with Constanza Gomez Mont
May 13, 2021 06:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBToday’s guest, the social entrepreneur Constanza Gomez Mont, co-founder for the initiative AI for climate, joins us to discuss civic technologies in practice and how the process of combining human rights with AI works. Examples of AI technologies in the field of human rights How is AI practically used for the environment? 1.5/2 degree goal and tipping points for the climate, AI as a possibility? Successes and failures for AI in the fight against climate change How well is AI data recei...
#13 Spock, Sherlock or just good old AI with Holger Hoos
April 27, 2021 12:00 - 52 minutes - 35.9 MBOur guests is Holger Hoos, co-founder of CLAIRE, the Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe, and professor of Machine Learning at Leiden University. I had the pleasure of joining Holger at last week's event Vision for AI 2021 in response to the European Commission’s publishing their “European Approach to Artificial Intelligence”. We’re chatting about the real back end of AI, its beginnings, why it’s so cool, where do we already encounter it in our eve...
#12 Technology to fight & cope with Climate Change with Manuella Cunha Brito
April 10, 2021 11:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBWith guest is Manuella Cunha Brito, co-founder of Good Tech Lab and now Climatescape, joining us from France to chat about using technology to fight climate change, how to incentivize businesses and startups to be sustainable as well as challenges in turning research into real impact. Topics: Technology, Climate change, Impact investment, Sustainable startups, Decarbonisation, Carbon removal, Biochar - pyrolysis of biomass, Climate adaptation What are the technologies that are actually re...
#11 Art for Amnesty, U2, Sting & Bill Shipsey for human rights - the power of culture!
March 25, 2021 09:00 - 47 minutes - 32.9 MBThis episode’s guest is Bill Shipsey, founder of Art for Amnesty, human rights activist and the bringer of culture to all things. We’ll be talking about his adventurous life of attaching U2, Sting and Joan Baez to Amnesty International, founding and then bestowing the Ambassador of Conscience award on Vaclav Havel, Nelson Mandela, Ai Weiwei, Alicia Keys and other inspiring advocates of human rights. Shipsey was Co-Executive Producer of “Instant Karma” – Amnesty’s multi-star benefit album of...
#10 The story of Artificial Intelligence with Bennie Mols
March 15, 2021 08:00 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MBOur guests is Bennie Mols, renowned science & technology journalist with a background in physics & philosophy on his fascination with AI & robotics and his dream that one day the co-author of a paper will be an AI. The history of artificial intelligence, from it being just science to being applicable What is fascinating about AI? What can AI NOT do? How would you explain the pace, the rapidity of how the narrative around AI changed from curiosity to fear? How to achieve a balance in jou...
#9 Tech-positive vs Tech-negative: Jobs, Society & Politics with Tony Curzon Price
March 08, 2021 12:00 - 37 minutes - 25.6 MBThis episode’s guests is Tony Curzon Price, strategic advisor at the UK’s Cabinet Office, and an advisory board member of ours, with a polemic of tech-positive and tech-negative perspectives discussing the future of work, can we highlight more tangible explanations for geopolitical as well as social activity other than values and identity, Using technology as a tool, not a machine and what are the limits to social understanding and society’s self-understanding? What is the relationship betw...
#8 Trade, Industry & Technology in Africa with Bogolo Kenewendo
February 09, 2021 14:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBBogolo Kenewendo is the founding president of Kenewendo Advisory, former Minister for Trade, Investment and Industry of Botswana. Bogolo led the Brexit trade negotiations on behalf of southern African nations and was a member of the UN high-level panel on digital cooperation. We discuss the African Continent Free Trade Area that was signed the 1st of January, the kind of questions her advisory company is being asked to work on, what benefits and challenges has COVID brought to the continen...
#7 Cybersecurity & Transatlantic Cooperation with MEP Marina Kaljurand
January 27, 2021 09:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MBDiscussion with MEP Marina Kaljurand, former Estonian Foreign Minister with interests in cybersecurity, transatlantic cooperation and digitalisation on all levels. What you’ll hear: Estonia as an e-nation: “nobody has so far proved that online voting services are less secure than offline.” Estonia is the only country in the world that gives its citizens rights to vote online. The digital revolution has come to stay, smart ones are taking advantage and facing challenges. The majority of i...
#6 Chrono-narcissism, philosophy & diplomacy in a high-tech world with Jovan Kurbalija
January 21, 2021 10:00 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MBWhat you’ll hear in this episode with Prof. Jovan Kurbalija, Founding President of Diplo Foundation, ambassador of the internet, pioneer in cyber diplomacy and Head of the Geneva Internet Platform, secretariat member of the UN high-level panel on digital cooperation: As a person promoting technology for the past three decades, my question is what are we going to pass on? My concern is that generations (including mine) focus too much on project management logic of human society (outcomes, o...
#5 UN panel on digital cooperation with Cathy Mulligan
January 19, 2021 14:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBWith guest Cathy Mulligan on how cryptocurrency enters the debate about digital cooperation at a UN panel? Sustainability in 2030 when 30% of the world's energy will be taken up by cloud computing, thought experiments like “do you actually need a central bank?”, what does universal connectivity mean? If you’re being forced to use particular technologies because you're a developing country, are you being colonised by digital means? “If you want people to think about ethics, you have to talk ...
#4 Volkswagen AI Director Patrick van der Smagt on new technologies and tackling SDGs
January 12, 2021 15:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MBWhat makes the Volkswagen Machine Learning Research Lab different from other research institutions? Creating technologies that really work - not just creating methodologies that show it could work and publishing. Robotics literature has solutions but it always has some problems - solving them so that it can be applied is what is sustainable. “Our general technologies evolve around predicting the future and using those predictions to make optimal decisions. At the moment I know what's going...
#3 “Vaccine nationalism” with Hans Pung, president of RAND (Corporation) Europe - why is it beneficial for high-income countries to supply lower-income countries with the vaccine?
November 26, 2020 14:00 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MBShould vaccine producing countries supply lower-income countries with the vaccine? Why? How much will COVID19 cost the world if we provide an equitable distribution of the vaccine across countries and how much if just the ones that can afford them vaccinate? Freshly published fascinating report on the impact of COVID19 “vaccine nationalism” on the global economy. RAND study (summary as well as entire study free): https://www.rand.org/randeurope/research/projects/cost-of-covid19-vaccine-nati...
#2 Facebook & US elections, EU vs Amazon antitrust violations, Beijing’s unprecedented antitrust rules for it’s Big Tech & EU’s new budget & innovation
November 16, 2020 11:00 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MBFacebook & US elections update EU (& US!) vs Amazon on antitrust violations & anti-competitive behaviour Beijing drafts unprecedented antitrust rules for it’s Big Tech in a first attempt to curb the power of monopolies EU’s new budget & what does it mean for SMEs & generally research, technology, innovation, AI & more? A European shared data cloud? European technological sovereignty? How has Facebook fared during and after the US elections? What does a 45% rise in aggressive content on...
#1 Facebook Ad Boycott & the National Research Cloud
November 10, 2020 14:00 - 13 minutes - 9.37 MBThe National Research Cloud aims to bring together government, industry & research academia to create a cloud that enables better access to advanced AI technology to universities, research institutions & industry researchers. What would that mean for SMEs & research institutes to afford high-end AI tech? Is the USA losing it's AI edge over China? What about Europe? Are Facebook's "policy changes" enough? What kind of influence do corporations have on Facebook & what do their ad withdrawals ...