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The Fourth Industrial Revolution is an event of dizzying complexity and scale, but it is fundamentally of our own creation. Its story has not been written and its outcomes are not determined. It is our actions, in their millions, that will shape its course. How can you play your part in securing a benign revolution and steering it away from disaster? In our final episode of âShaping the Fourth Industrial Revolutionâ, we convene our own experts to discuss what we can all do as individuals to play our part in this great and important drama. With Nicholas Davies, Head of Society and Innovation.
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Who will reap the benefits of the Fourth Industrial Revolution? Will it be the top 1% at the expense of the rest of us, or will the proceeds be shared equitably enough to make it worthwhile for everyone? Voters in the rich world are already showing signs of serious discontent with the proceeds of globalisation, as evidence has grown that the growth of the last decade has benefitted those at the top disproportionately. There is a risk, in the eyes of many observers, that if powerful interests are able to capture the lionâs share of the Fourth Industrial Revolutionâs goodies for themselves, conflict and social upheaval will ensue. How can policymakers chart a path to a form of growth that is more inclusive as this revolution unfolds? Can the excesses of globalisation be curbed? In episode 9 of âShaping the Fourth Industrial Revolutionâ, we talk to Danny Leipziger, Managing Director of the Growth Dialogue; Jonathan Ostry, Deputy Director of the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund; Sergei Guriev, Chief Economist of the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development; Jeremy Howard, deep learning expert and founder of Fast.AI; Margareta Drzeniek-Hanouz, Head of Future of Economic Progress and Member of the Executive Committee at the World Economic Forum.
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The business of government has remained cautiously analogue as our lives have digitised, and perhaps there are good enough reasons for that. Nonetheless, a new generation of digital democrats is afoot, with plans to infuse legislatures everywhere with technological upgrades. If they succeed, governments of the future will be more open, more evidence-based, more data-rich and more responsive than ever before. The notion of representation could be changed beyond recognition, and legitimacy too will adopt a different hue. Are such changes necessary or welcome? And with filter bubbles and bots entering the lexicon, how does technology also threaten the efficacy of our governing systems? We filter the issues with Beth Noveck, Director of the Governance Lab; Carl Miller, author of âPower: Control and Liberation in the Digital Ageâ; David Binetti, founder of Votizen; Pia Mancini of Democracy OS and Democracy Earth; and Audrey Tang, Taiwanâs Digital Minister without Portfolio.
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As advances in AI and robotics threaten to put millions of people out of jobs, there is profound concern about the future of work in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Will human ingenuity dream up new forms of productive employment? Is the gig economy going to become the new norm and if so, can the rights workers have won over the last two centuries of struggle be protected? Joining us for episode 6 of âShaping the Fourth Industrial Revolutionâ are Andrew Maynard, Director of the Risk Innovation Lab at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University, Jane Humphries, Professor of Economic History at All Souls College, Oxford, Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trades Union Confederation, Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science and Smith-Zadeh Professor in Engineering, University of California, Berkeley; Stephane Kasriel, CEO of Upwork; Sue Duke, Senior Director of Public Policy at LinkedIn, and Alexander De Croo, Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium.
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With advances in genetic engineering, neuroscience, pharmaceuticals and prosthetics, are we poised to enter a âpost-humanâ era? Will we jettison the limits nature imposed, even up to mortality itself? If so, to what end? Who will have access to these powerful tools, and what will become of those that do not? For episode 6 of âShaping the Fourth Industrial Revolutionâ, we enter an ethical minefield with Rob Sparrow of Monash University, Melbourne; James Hughes, Executive Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies; Nita Farahany, Professor of Law and Philosophy at Duke University; Aldo Faisal, Senior Lecturer in Neurotechnology at Imperial College London; Lord Martin Rees, United Kingdom Astronomer Royal and founder of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk; and Meghan OâGieblyn, a writer and journalist.
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How can regulators assess the risks and mitigate them sensibly without stifling the enormous potential benefits that Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies have to offer? In episode 5 of âShaping the Fourth Industrial Revolutionâ, we examine some of the emerging tools regulators are developing to blunt the horns of this particular dilemma. We are joined by Karen Yeung, Interdisciplinary Chair in the Law School and School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham; Nita Farahany, Professor of Law and Philosophy at Duke University; Dave Guston, Co-director of the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at Arizona State University; Wendell Wallach, Chair of Technology and Ethics Studies at the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Yale University; Gillian Hadfield, legal scholar and author of âRules for a Flat Worldâ; Rob Sparrow, ethicist and Professor at Monash University in Melbourne; Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School; and Professor Kyong-Su Yi, Head of the Vehicle Dynamics and Control Lab at Seoul National University.
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How do you educate children for a future whose main characteristic is ambiguous change? How will new technologies impact what we need to learn, as well as how we do it? Can AI create personal tutors for all? Can entrepreneurialism and independence join maths and science as curriculum fundamentals? In episode four of âShaping the Fourth Industrial Revolutionâ we meet Ted Dintersmith, the former venture capitalist turned education philanthropist and activist; Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology and winner of the TED prize; Pasi Sahlberg, Finnish education guru and author; Brittany Bir, the CEO of programming school 42 Silicon Valley; Sylvain Kalache, co-founder of Holberton School of Software Engineering; Farb Nivi, founder of Grockit and Learnist; and deep learning expert, Jeremy Howard.
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Whatever else the First Industrial Revolution may have been, it was an environmental calamity. As we now know, the practice of mining and burning fossil fuels on a massive scale was profoundly consequential for our planetary development. Does the Fourth Industrial Revolution give us the chance to reverse the damage we have done? Across the spectrum of environmentalist activity, there are engineers and innovators finding ways to employ new technologies to lessen our impact on ecosystems, from the startup using blockchain to drive sustainable buying decisions to the activist using satellites to bring environmental degraders to book. In episode 3 of âShaping the Fourth Industrial Revolutionâ we talk to John Amos, founder of SkyTruth; Paul Bunje, Chief Scientist of the X-Prize Foundation; Jonathon Porritt, former Director of Friends of the Earth; Lauren Fletcher, founder and CEO of Biocarbon Engineering; Jessi Baker, Founder of Provenance; Kim Hunter, VP of Communications and Engagement at Aclima.
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The promise of Artificial Intelligence is enormous in almost every sphere it touches; education, health, agriculture and care, to name just a few sectors. AI has clear potential to transform outcomes in just a few years. As ever, risks abound, with autonomous weapons an area of special concern for experts today, and plenty more to come. For episode 2 of âShaping the Fourth Industrial Revolutionâ, we consult Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science and Smith-Zadeh Professor in Engineering, University of California, Berkeley; Jeremy Howard, founder of Fast.ai; Francesca Rossi, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Padova (currently on leave at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center); Farb Nivi, founder of Grockit and Learnist; Wendell Wallach, Chair of Technology and Ethics Studies, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Yale University, and Co-chair of the WEF Global Future Council on Technology, Values, and Policy; Geoff Mulgan, Director of the UKâs National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts; and Erica Kochi, Co-director of UNICEF's Innovation Unit.
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Humanity is embarking on an age of technological change more profound than any before it. With history as our guide, we know that massive social change will follow in its wake. In episode one of âShaping the Industrial Revolutionâ, we introduce the framework and look at some of the best, and worst, outcomes possible, with Geoff Mulgan, Director of the UKâs National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts; Jane Humphries, Professor of Economic History at All Souls College, Oxford; Gerd Leonhard, futurist and author of âTechnology versus Humanâ; and Bob Hirst, General Editor of the Mark Twain Project and curator of the Mark Twain papers at Berkeley.
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