AI-powered models, which are rapidly developing in capacity and scale, are expected to disrupt companies' operating and business models. What are the near-term use cases and long-term moonshot opportunities for AI to fundamentally reshape industrial ecosystems? This is the full audio from a session at the Special Meeting on Global Collaboration, Growth and Energy for Development in Riyadh on 29 April, 2024. Watch it here: ...

While AI has the potential to augment the capabilities of workers by automating tasks, concerns persist regarding technological unemployment and the concentration of productivity gains. As AI develops further, what are the trade-offs leaders will need to manage? This is the full audio from a session at the Special Meeting on Global Collaboration, Growth and Energy for Development in Riyadh on 28 April, 2024. Watch it here: ...

The recent sustained slowdown in growth has been compounded by a succession of crises and dislocations. What approaches are needed to reignite growth while shifting to a better balance between quantity and quality? Recorded 28 April, 2024 at the Special Meeting on Global Collaboration, Growth and Energy for Development in Riyadh. Watch it...

In a significant heightening of the battle for global pre-eminence in the semiconductor industry, export bans on certain types of advanced chips, including those used to develop AI, have come into effect. What impact will these restrictions have on both innovation and the competitive landscape in advanced chipmaking as the industry takes centre stage in power relations between the major global economies? This is the full audio from a session at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in...

AI and immersive technologies will fundamentally change how humanity interacts with society, government and even the environment. How can we meet the challenge presented by the complex risks we face while building trust in our technological future? This is the full audio from a session at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2024 on January 17, 2024. Speakers: Mustafa Suleyman, Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft AI Ben Thompson, Founder, Stratechery Ayanna Howard, Dean of...

Our soils withdraw 70% of freshwater and grow 95% of the food we eat. They are a critical lever to transform how we produce food and tackle the trilemma of food access and affordability, nutrition and health as well as nature and climate. From capital stacks for watersheds linked to farming corridors to skills and capabilities in protecting and restoring soil health, how can breakthrough finance, knowledge models and community collaborations realize the value of soil? This is the full...

Antimicrobial resistance is the third leading cause of death globally. While the global economy loses $36.9 billion a year as a result of super bugs, how can global economic policies continue to embed and accelerate action on urgent health security issues? This is the full audio from a session at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2024 Watch the session here: ...

By 2050, estimates indicate that the global economy will have doubled in size and will be serving a population of over 10 billion people. In this context, improving energy efficiency is critical to delivering an affordable, secure and climate-aligned future. What can companies and governments do to enable economic growth with less energy? This is the full audio from a session at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos on 16 January, 2024, linked to the International Business...

The development of generative AI has catapulted AI technology to one of the fastest and most impactful innovations of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. From creation to production and distribution, some predict its effect on global value chains is analogous to the steam engines of the Industrial Revolution. With added qualities of speed, and accessibility, what is the implication for industry worldwide and how do leaders manage its risks? This is the full audio from a session at the World...

Below the ocean surface is a world that is vast, distant and alien. We are now able to understand and explore more of this realm with technology. Join Caribbean marine biologist and explorer Diva Amon live from a deep-sea submersible examining the health of Mesophotic coral reefs off the coast of the Seychelles. She is joined by prominent experts and industry leaders to explore the potential of technology and how it can be harnessed to better steward ocean health. Speakers: Samuel Jacobs,...

Leaders around the globe have called for international collaboration to steer AI's development to human and planetary development rather than exploitation. Harmonizing diverse views will tackle challenges at the nexus of tech, privacy and rights. With AI's swift advance and varied national oversight frameworks emerging, how can global players collaboratively craft adaptive, forward-looking governance? This is the full audio from a session at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2024 on...

The First Movers Coalition, launched at COP26 in Glasgow in 2021, has garnered an unprecedented $16 billion in aggregated demand for emerging climate technologies and the support of 13 governments which together represent more than 50% of global GDP. What are the lessons learnt and what lies ahead in the journey to speed up and scale these technologies? This session is linked to the First Movers Coalition of the World Economic Forum. This is the full audio from a session at the World...

From diplomacy to defence, AI is markedly changing geopolitics. Shifts in data ownership and infrastructure will transform some stakeholders while elevating others, reshaping sovereignty and influence. How is the landscape evolving and what does it mean for the existing international architecture? This is the full audio from a session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2024. Watch it here: ...

AI offers novel opportunities for deeply personalized learning and tutoring and is set to turbocharge the edtech industry while creating uncharted risks for today’s learners in schools, universities and workplaces. With learning being reshaped at breathtaking speed, how can organizations and governments adapt to leverage the benefits of this new era? This session is linked to the Education 4.0 Alliance of the World Economic Forum. Speakers: Nzinga Qunta, Anchor, South African Broadcasting...

The transfer of knowledge across generations and cultures has shaped our evolutionary trajectory and our interactions with each other and the natural world. How might intergenerational dialogue inform a path that is simultaneously guided by a realism to see the world as it is and an optimism that there is hope and possibilities in a challenging and uncertain future? This session was recorded live January 19, 2024 at the Annual Meeting in Davos Switzerland. Watch the session...

Generative AI is advancing exponentially. What is happening at the frontier of research and application and how are novel techniques and approaches changing the risks and opportunities linked to frontier, generative AI models? This is the full audio from a session at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2024. Speakers: Yann LeCun, Silver Professor of Data Science, Computer Science, Neural Science and Electrical Engineering, New York University Nicholas Thompson, Chief Executive...

The year 2023 is the hottest on record - 1.48°C above the pre-industrial averages - propelling economies and societies into unprecedented and risky territory. Leaders are increasingly called upon to transform the current growth and development models to better steward the global commons and serve humanity. How can we enable a net-zero, nature-positive future that regenerates Earth’s finite resources and safeguards its peoples? This is the audio from a session at the Annual Meeting 2024....

As technology becomes increasingly intertwined in our daily lives and important for driving development and prosperity, questions of safety, human interaction and trust become critical to addressing both benefits and risks. How can technology amplify our humanity? This is the full audio from a session at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2024 Speakers: Sam Altman Chief Executive Officer, OpenAI OpCo, LLC Marc Benioff Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Salesforce, Inc. Julie...

From the advent of smartphone apps to novel incentive structures on social media, the latest technological advances mark a change in the nature of childhood in recent years, removing limits to screen time and impacting time for play and face-to-face conversations. What steps are needed to tackle emerging harms for children and young adults and reverse the trend of a growing anxious generation? This session was recorded live January 18, 2024 as part of the 2024 Annual Meeting in Davos,...

Long-standing economic tenets are being challenged by ongoing shocks, geo-economic tensions and supply chain reconfigurations. How can we adapt to changing economic realities, to ensure long-term and equitable growth? Join this interactive town hall with leaders to explore promising approaches to adapt to new economic realities. This conversation was recorded January 17, 2024 at the Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland.  Speakers include: Michael Sandel, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass...

Global cooperation has been critical for the impressive expansion of well-being and opportunities in the past 70 years. Yet these gains are at risk from the uneven impacts of continuous shocks to trade, climate and health, and geopolitical flashpoints. How can North-South cooperation be recalibrated to deliver win-win solutions to our most pressing issues rather than exacerbating them? This is the full audio from a session at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2024. Watch it...

While tackling inflation, higher interest rates have wider repercussions: slowing down growth, increasing pressure on global markets, creating debt sustainability risks and changing the nature of investment. Will high rates become the new normal and what might a new equilibrium look like? This is the full audio from a session at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2024 Speakers: Steve Sedgwick, Anchor, CNBC Gita Gopinath, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund ...

World Economic Forum Founder Klaus Schwab and Ajay Banga, President of the World Bank Group and Member of the Forum’s Board of Trustees, share their aspirations before the Forum’s Annual Meeting 2024. Follow all the action from Davos at wef.ch/wef24 and across social media using the hashtag #WEF24. Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: Radio Davos - subscribe Meet the Leader - subscribe World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast - subscribe Agenda...

An intensifying climate crisis, fragile global economy, and the emergence of critical questions around frontier technologies are converging against the backdrop of a deteriorating security landscape to create an uncertain geopolitical outlook. How will these issues shape geopolitics in the year ahead and what are the prospects for cooperative approaches to address them? Join this Strategic Intelligence Geopolitical Outlook for 2024 to learn more about the future of geopolitical cooperation ...