Reboot2030

Nico Andreas Heller in conversation with Yoshua Bengio. Watch on YouTube . As AI rapidly advances towards human-level capabilities, the debate over its regulation intensifies. Some argue that regulation is futile and open-source AGI will drive progress, but these perspectives overlook critical risks. Unchecked market forces and geopolitical competition could lead to catastrophic outcomes, but we s...

Nico Andreas Heller in conversation with John Davenport. Watch on YouTube . Studies show that identity fraud cost $52 billion globally in 2021, with ransomware costs potentially reaching an astonishing $265 billion annually by 2031. In this episode of Reboot2030, we examine AI's impact on cybersecurity, focusing on its potential to revolutionise cybercrime through sophisticated attacks and misinfo...

Nico Andreas Heller in conversation with Pawel Ngei Watch on YouTube . In an era of multiple global crises – from the climate emergency, to rising populism and the existential threats posed by rapid developments in AI – positive visions of a sustainable and regenerative future are urgently needed. This episode of Reboot2030 explores solarpunk, an emergent movement gaining traction for its life-aff...

Nico Andreas Heller in conversation with Jean-Désiré Kouassi . Digitalisation is a key driver of both economic and social development, not only in the industrialised world, but increasingly also in developing countries – with all the downsides and risks this implies. In this Reboot Dialogue, Jean-Désiré Kouassi tells us about how Be Digit Wise advocates against online propaganda and fake news; and...

Nico Andreas Heller in conversation with Akufuna Muyunda . In Zambia, climate change sparks severe repercussions: crop failures afflict six million families; dwindling rainfall deepens water scarcity, impacting rural life; diseases like malaria surge, straining health systems; smallholder farmers suffer livelihood losses, prompting diversification efforts; and rampant deforestation worsens environ...

Nico Andreas Heller in conversation with Susanna Cafaro Europe over the past ten years has seen a tectonic shift to the right, both at the level of member states, and at the European level. But what exactly does that mean? How will this shift affect European policy, relations between member states and indeed the European Union itself, or rather European ‘supranational’ democracy – both in the shor...

Nico Andreas Heller in conversation with Roberto Castaldi Europe is now facing multiple serious threats, internally via right-wing populists and nationalists, and externally, because of the ongoing war in Ukraine and other geopolitical conflicts and risks around the world. Global warming and migration act as fuel and further exaggerate these divisions along nationalist/populist versus liberal/fede...

Nico Andreas Heller in conversation with Chris Hamer Chris Hamer has long been active as a democracy activist on the global stage and is one of the co-founders and the current President of the Coalition for a World Security Community of Democratic Nations . In this dialogue he is making the case for a multi-national Alliance of Democracies at a time of global crisis to mitigate against the real an...

Nico Andreas Heller in conversation with Yoshua Bengio. What if artificial intelligence (AI) continues to progress towards and beyond our abilities, in areas where it could become dangerous, and what if our regulations won’t be 100% foolproof, opening the door to seriously harmful misuse by bad actors, historically never seen concentrations of power and existential threats to our collective future...

Nico Andreas Heller in conversation with Robert C. Hinkley . More than 20 years ago, Bob Hinkley proposed a Code for Corporate Citizenship that would amend the existing duty of directors “to act in the best interests of the corporation” by adding the following words... “but not at the expense of severe damage to the environment, human rights, public health and safety, dignity of employees or the w...

Robert Litterman (US) in conversation with Nico Andreas Heller. According to Bob Litterman, many private investors are nervous about investing heavily in climate solutions, because they lack confidence that such investments will pay off. Governments might promise that fossil fuels and other carbon sources will be very expensive in the future, but they are notorious for saying one thing and then do...

A Reboot Special with John Davenport (US), Ali Al Hajj Sleiman (ML/Mali), and Roberto Castaldi (IT), moderated by Nico A. Heller. Written constitutions, such as the American or the German Constitution, are treated often almost like divine texts or laws (timeless and eternal, written in stone), that can be referred to by anyone, but only a 'chosen few' (constitutional judges) are allowed to interpr...

A Reboot Special with Yoshua Bengio (CA) and John Bunzl (UK), moderated by Nico A. Heller. In this Reboot Special we talk about the strengths and limitations of current artificial intelligence, why it may become a dangerous instrument of disinformation, why superintelligent AI may be closer (years) than most previously expected (decades) and how this could yield to catastrophic outcomes - from AI-...

A Reboot Special with Robert Hinkley (AU), Francesca Leucci (IT), Susanna Cafaro (IT) and Young-Jin Choi (DE), moderated by Nico A. Heller. Existing law provides that directors must “act in the best interests of the corporation.” Bob Hinkley, a renowned American attorney and one of the Democracy School’s regular dialogue partners proposes a Code for Corporate Citizenship that would add “but not at...

John Bunzl (UK) in conversation with Nico Andreas Heller. First the pandemic and then the war in Ukraine disrupted international trade and fragmented global supply chains to such an extent that many countries, including the US, have started localising their economies, strategically important industries in particular. In this talk we look at the impact these developments are having on intergovernme...

Chris Hamer (Australia) in conversation with Nico Andreas Heller. For some years now, Chris Hamer has been a passionate advocate for a unified democratic community that increases the incentives for all nations to adhere to the rules-based order necessary for peace, security and prosperity. In this dialogue Chris takes stock, reflects on some of the geopolitical challenges the international communi...

Susanna Cafaro (Italy) in conversation with Nico Andreas Heller. Susanna Cafaro (Italy) is an European activist and professor of European Union Law at the University of Salento. She has authored and edited numerous books and over 50 scholarly articles and book chapters on the EU, European economic and monetary union, EU external relations, IMF & World Bank governance and functioning, Euro-Medi...

​​​​ Delton Chen (Australia) in conversation with Nico Andreas Heller. Delton is a civil engineer and geo-hydrologist with a Ph. D. from the University of Queensland. He founded the Global Carbon Reward Initiative in 2013 and developed the “carbon currency” concept as featured in the sci-fi novel The Ministry for the Future. Last fall he travelling the globe (again) to promote his Global Carbon Re...

Young-Jin Choi (Germany) in conversation with Nico Andreas Heller. Young-Jin is Director of Impact & ESG at Vidia Equity, where he builds on his experience as Head of Research, Impact Investing, at Phineo gAG. He is a passionate climate activist who utilises his professional expertise and networks to help accelerate the transformation of our civilization’s fossil fuel-based energy system. In t...

Aida Martínez Tinaut (Spain) in conversation with Nico Andreas Heller. The Government of Catalonia is planning to pilot a universal basic income scheme. The scheme will be launched in the first half of next year and will run for two years. About 5,000 people chosen randomly from various locations will participate. Aida, who works at the Office of the Pilot Plan to Implement Universal Basic Income...

John Davenport (USA) in conversation with Nico Andreas Heller. John is a professor of philosophy at Fordham University in New York. He teaches and writes on topics in political philosophy, ethics, existentialism and moral psychology and on some topics in philosophy of religion. He is the author of A League of Democracies – a plan to meet rising threats from Russia and China – and is currently work...

​ Robert C. Hinkley (Australia) in conversation with Nico Andreas Heller. Bob is an American attorney who specializes in corporate law generally and corporate financing specifically. From 2012 to 2020, he provided critical assistance to the US Department of Justice in connection with investigations that recovered more than $US 65 billion from more than a dozen banks for illegal behaviour that led...

Chris Hamer (Australia) in conversation with Nico Andreas Heller. In our Reboot Dialogue #1 Chris Hamer talked about the challenges democracy faces from a rising tide of autocracy and argued that the formation of a World Security Community of democratic nations would be a logical and forward-looking response. Russia’s war of aggression and China’s positioning and response to it have added new impe...

John Davenport (USA) in conversation with Nico Andreas Heller. John Davenport is on a mission to save liberal democracy in the US and globally; and has recently published influential op-eds on fixing US elections , how just war theory supports fighting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine , and recent initiatives calling for a global alliance of democracies . In this Reboot Interview John talks about conc...

Roberto Castaldi (Italy) in conversation with Nico Andreas Heller. In our Reboot Dialogue #3 Roberto Castaldi argued that for the EU to prosper in the long term, it needs to abolish the principle of unanimity and become a fully-fledged federation. The Conference on the Future of Europe, which he believes supports his arguments and which is currently in session, draws to a close in May. In this Reb...