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Technology that transforms: what an invention from 1450 can teach us about AI
Radio Davos - November 30, 2023 13:39 - 36 minutesIf 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 transformati...
'Reality kicks in': What just happened at talks to create a 'Paris deal for plastics'?
Radio Davos - November 24, 2023 14:49 - 32 minutesPlastics 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 ...
"Not just sticks of carbon" - how growing trees for the climate must also benefit biodiversity
Radio Davos - November 11, 2023 01:44 - 25 minutesWhen Professor Tom Crowther published research into the massive potential of trees to absorb more carbon than previously thought, he helped spur the Trillion Trees movement to plant, restore and conserve forests. But it also caused massive debate. As he publishes updated research, Crowther tel...
Quality over quantity: why the time has come for 'value based health care'
Radio Davos - November 09, 2023 12:54 - 44 minutesThe concept of 'value based health care' - where patient outcomes are monitored and health care services are funded on the basis of the quality of care, rather than the quantity of procedures - has been around for a couple of decades, but has yet to become the norm. This podcast explores the p...
Lessons in leadership we can all learn from: celebrating 100 episodes of Meet the Leader
Radio Davos - October 27, 2023 15:58 - 45 minutesThis week we’re celebrating 100 episodes of our sister podcast Meet the Leader. Every week, Linda Lacina interviews leaders - of major companies, organisations, or what we might call ‘thought leaders' in the fields of academia or campaign groups. If you want to know what makes these individu...
What 20 years of Second Life can teach us about the future of the metaverse
Radio Davos - October 10, 2023 13:12 - 43 minutesIn 2003 - the a year before a 19-year-old Harvard student called Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook - Philip Rosedale launched Second Life - an online virtual world that looked set to transform the internet. Two decades later, with the Facebook company, now called Meta, and its competitors seeki...
How to talk to a climate change sceptic
Radio Davos - October 05, 2023 11:39 - 25 minutesWhat is the single most important thing that any individual can do to help alleviate the climate crisis? Katharine Hayhoe is the chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, a distinguished professor at Texas Tech University and the author of Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and H...
Instability, inflation and the 'polycrisis' - the Global Risks Report half a year on
Radio Davos - September 28, 2023 13:58 - 36 minutesAt the start of this year, the World Economic Forum published its annual Global Risks Report - a major survey of sentiment about what are the big things that could go wrong - in the economy, the environment, in health, cybersecurity, geopolitics - and more. In this podcast, we invite back the ...
SDIM23: Innovation for Tough-To-Decarbonize Industries
Radio Davos - September 22, 2023 22:30 - 45 minutesSourcing and scaling viable innovations to decarbonize ‘hard-to-abate’ sectors like mining and aviation will be critical to the success of the Sustainable Development Goals. How can we leverage cutting-edge technologies and adopt novel strategies to accelerate the race to net-zero in these secto...
SDIM23 - Accelerating Progress on Gender Parity
Radio Davos - September 21, 2023 21:48 - 45 minutesGender parity has recovered to pre-pandemic levels globally, but the pace of change is stagnating. It will take an estimated 131 years to reach full parity at the current trajectory. How can we boost women’s economic participation and political empowerment and achieve gender parity at all level...
SDIM23 - Bridging the Gap: Financing Africa's Agricultural Growth
Radio Davos - September 21, 2023 20:00 - 1 hourSmall and medium agricultural enterprises (agri-SMEs) are Africa’s largest employer and economic engine—and the key to transforming food systems and improving food security for the continent. Yet three out of four agri-SMEs can’t access formal bank financing, and are too large for microfinance, ...
The global economy is slowing - here's why that may not be such a bad thing
Radio Davos - September 18, 2023 06:56 - 25 minutesThe World Economic Forum has just published its latest Chief Economists Outlook, a regular report based on the views of senior economists around the world. This edition shows a glass half full and half empty, with concerns of widespread economic recession easing since the last report in May, ...
What are semiconductors, and why are they vital to the global economy?
Radio Davos - September 06, 2023 17:40 - 32 minutesSemiconductors make the world go round, and the most cutting-edge versions are necessary to propel the artificial intelligence revolution. Historian Chris Miller, author ‘Chip War’, explains what chips do, how they are made, and why they are so vital to global supply chains and international r...
AI Professor Stuart Russell: - what could possibly go wrong?
Radio Davos - August 02, 2023 23:00 - 50 minutesProfessor Stuart Russell shares his concerns about the rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence. Listen back to our 5-part series on generative AI: Episode 1: AI: Why everyone's talking about the promise and risks of this 'powerful wild beast' Episode 2: A common good? The compan...
Beyond AI: the top-10 tech of 2023 set to change our lives
Radio Davos - July 19, 2023 15:57 - 42 minutesDesigner phages, spatial optics, plant sensors and bendable batteries - just some of the items on this year's World Economic Forum Top 10 Emerging Technologies that will change our lives in the next 3-5 years. To talk us through all 10, we hear from the two people who led the work compiling th...
Not just for gamers: how the metaverse might impact your life
Radio Davos - July 18, 2023 12:55 - 27 minutesIs the metaverse still a thing or has the world’s attention moved on to generative AI? On this episode of Radio Davos, we speak to a vice president of the consumer electronics company HTC. Pearly Chen heads Business Development & Content Partnerships for VIVEPORT a subscription plan for virtu...
The 90-year-old using sports to change the lives of refugees
Radio Davos - July 03, 2023 13:23 - 26 minutesClaude Marshall fled Nazi Germany as a small boy in the 1930s and now helps today’s refugees by fundraising for sports facilities in refugee camps. He tells Radio Davos why sport is so important for traumatised young people, and compares the plight of people today forced from their home with h...
Disease X - How the world can stop the next pandemic
Radio Davos - July 03, 2023 13:09 - 23 minutesCan we prevent a repeat of COVID-19? In a new book, Disease X, author Kate Kelland looks at what we learned from the pandemic and how scientists, governments and societies can be better prepared for the next one. Links World Economic Forum’s Website page for the “Centre for Health and Healt...
AI: Bringing stakeholders together to make AI work for us all
Radio Davos - June 28, 2023 15:41 - 25 minutesThe final episode of our AI series comes from the Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC), the World Economic Forum’s ‘summer Davos’, in Tianjin, China. Cathy Li, head of AI at the World Economic Forum, says what needs to happen next as the world gets to grips with generative AI, and introd...
AMNC23: Braving the Headwinds: Rewiring Growth Amid Fragility
Radio Davos - June 27, 2023 12:11 - 58 minutesAmid pressures on the global economy from recent major crises and renewed turbulence in financial markets, stakeholders will need to convert the bright spots of accelerated trade and investment in green and innovative industries into a new paradigm for sustained growth. How can both government ...
How COVID and cost of living hit progress on equality: the Global Gender Gap Report 2023
Radio Davos - June 22, 2023 16:20 - 34 minutesIn most parts of the world, the gender gap - the difference in opportunities and outcomes for women compared to men - is closing. But closing so slowly that it would take, at the current rate of progress, until 2154 for men and women to be truly equal. That statistic comes from the World Econo...
'AI will either compete with us or augment us' - so how do we pick the right path?
Radio Davos - June 15, 2023 06:57 - 35 minutes"AI will have some form of intelligence that will either compete with us or augment us. This is a question for us as a species. For the past thousands of years, we didn’t have a cousin or a brother and now we may have one. So it is how we understand that and how we deal with it." On Episode 4 ...
Responsible AI: how can philosophy help us make better tech?
Radio Davos - June 08, 2023 08:00 - 45 minutesThe rise of generative artificial intelligence raises a lot of philosophical questions. So can philosophy help us make AI that serves humanity for the good? On this episode we hear from 'applied ethicist' Cansu Canca, AI Ethics Lead at the Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University...
AI as a common good? The companies making the AI products we'll soon all be using
Radio Davos - June 01, 2023 09:01 - 51 minutesFor a transcript, visit the episode page at: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/ai-episode-2-microsoft-hugging-face In the second a special series on generative artificial intelligence, we hear from two companies involved in the AI revolution - one of the biggest and olde...
AI: Why everyone's talking about the promise and risks of this 'powerful wild beast'
Radio Davos - May 24, 2023 07:40 - 40 minutesIn the first of a special series on generative artificial intelligence, we ask why AI is suddenly such big news and where things might go from here. Speakers: Cathy Li, Head, AI, Data and Metaverse, World Economic Forum; Francesca Rossi, AI Ethics Global Leader, IBM Research; and Pascale Fung,...
Recession fears recede, but inflation's still a big risk - 3 chief economists on the global outlook
Radio Davos - May 12, 2023 11:27 - 38 minutesWe are still in a period of great economic uncertainty, with inflation posing a risk around the world and forcing central banks to tighten policy. Three chief economists spoke to Radio Davos at the World Economic Forum's Growth Summit. Hear where they think the global economy is headed. Feat...
Growth Summit 2023: Chief Economists Briefing
Radio Davos - May 04, 2023 17:57 - 47 minutesAgainst a backdrop of persistently sluggish growth, the global economy and markets continue to be roiled by crisis after crisis. What trends will determine the prospects for the year ahead, and are there grounds for optimism that the worst may be over? This is the full audio of the Chief Econom...
Growth Summit 2023: Future of Work - Health and Care
Radio Davos - May 03, 2023 14:53 - 30 minutesWith an estimated shortfall of 10 million workers in the sector by 2030, the health and care economy is under severe stress. What multi stakeholder policies and strategies can help recruit, retain and rethink healthcare jobs? This is the full audio from a session at the World Economic Forum’s G...
The future of jobs requires a ‘skills-first’ mindset - for employers and for you
Radio Davos - May 03, 2023 05:20 - 42 minutesWondering what job you’ll be doing in five years’ time? Chances are it may be quite different from what you do now, and you’ll need different skills. The transition to clean energy and the rise of artificial intelligence are likely to have a big impact on the world of work so employers, too, nee...
Chief Economists Outlook: What's next for the global economy?
Radio Davos - May 02, 2023 04:00 - 37 minutesWhat’s going on in the global economy? Christian Keller, the Head of Economic Research at Barclays, joins Radio Davos to discuss the latest Chief Economists Outlook and explore what likely lies ahead for consumers, businesses and policymakers. Read the Chief Economists Outlook: https://www.wef...
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