Dialogues Dispatch

Project Everyone Co-Founder Kate Garvey began working with the United Nations ten years ago to help build awareness and support for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), an agenda of 17 Goals that aim to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. Kate and Google’s President of EMEA Matt Brittin discuss where we are today, and the role of AI in helping to achieve the Goals globally,...

Lord Nicholas Stern, Chair of the London School of Economics’ Grantham Research Institute, is a leading expert on the economics of climate change. In a conversation about the need for inclusive systemic change, and the role of AI in transforming various sectors, such as energy, transport, and cities, he sits down with Google SVP of Technology and Society James Manyika to explore proactive measures...

How do we maximize the positive democratic potential of AI? Former diplomat and UK Member of Parliament Rory Stewart and Jigsaw CEO Yasmin Green have a candid conversation about the impact of AI on democracy, and the role of policy in getting AI right for society. Covering the risks of AI and the internet’s potential as a democratic tool, they underscore the importance of balancing technological a...

Physician-scientist Anna Greka, Professor of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, is a “molecular sleuth” who’s using new technology to solve age-old medical mysteries of rare genetic diseases. In this episode of Dialogues Dispatch, Anna and Google SVP of Research, Technology & Society James Manyika discuss what she describes as today’s “golden era of biomedicine,” and the ways that scienti...

Andrew McAfee, Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Co-Director of MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy, has spent years researching and writing about the ways technological progress changes the world. He joins Google & Alphabet President of Global Affairs, Kent Walker, for a conversation about generative AI’s potential to create wide-ranging impact across...

As Founding Dean of the University of Oxford Blavatnik School of Government, Ngaire Woods has had a front-row seat to the relationship between government and technology. In this episode of Dialogues Dispatch, Ngaire sits down with Google SVP of Research, Technology & Society James Manyika to discuss how we should navigate the governance of AI and the role of policy in maximizing AI’s benefits,...

Tune into Dialogues Dispatch, a limited-series podcast of conversations on AI and society that explore AI’s impact on policy, the economy, science, democracy, sustainability and more. Featuring bold thinkers and Google leaders discussing how AI is advancing everything from medical science to sustainability, each episode also considers AI’s risks, and how society can work together to get it right....