Last Week on Earth with GARI

Dr Mark Galeotti joins Last Week on Earth for a conversation on Russia. Galeotti, Director of the consultancy firm Mayak Intelligence , Honorary Professor at UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies and Senior Associate Fellow at RUSI , has spent the last 40 years researching Russian history and security issues. In the episode, he gives an introduction his latest book A Short History of...

Today’s guest Banning Garrett has over four decades of experience as a strategic thinker, writer and speaker on international relations and global trends. As a consultant to both the World Bank and the United Nations , Garrett writes and speaks on long-term global trends and the impact of exponential technologies. After sixty-one trips to China since 1981 for consultations with Chinese officials a...

In this episode the European legend Joachim Bitterlich ,  former advisor to German Chancellor Kohl and member of JEDI (Joint European Disruptive Initiative), joins us for a discussion on contemporary European affairs. Tune in for a conversation on the current, most pressing issues like strategic autonomy, Franco-German relations, the upcoming German elections and lastly Turkey and the EU. Bitterli...

Today’s guest, the social entrepreneur Constanza Gomez Mont , co-founder for the initiative AI for climate ,  joins us to discuss civic technologies in practice and how the process of combining human rights with AI works. Examples of AI technologies in the field of human rights How is AI practically used for the environment? 1.5/2 degree goal and tipping points for the climate, AI as a possibility...

Our guests is Holger Hoos, co-founder of CLAIRE, the Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in​ Europe , and professor of Machine Learning at Leiden University. I had the pleasure of joining Holger at last week's event  Vision for AI 2021 in response to the European Commission’s publishing their “ European Approach to Artificial Intelligence ”.  We’re chatting abou...

With guest is Manuella Cunha Brito , co-founder of Good Tech Lab and now Climatescape , joining us from France to chat about using technology to fight climate change, how to incentivize businesses and startups to be sustainable as well as challenges in turning research into real impact.  Topics : Technology, Climate change, Impact investment, Sustainable startups, Decarbonisation, Carbon removal,...

This episode’s guest is Bill Shipsey, founder of Art for Amnesty, human rights activist and the bringer of culture to all things. We’ll be talking about his adventurous life of attaching U2, Sting and Joan Baez to Amnesty International, founding and then bestowing the Ambassador of Conscience award on Vaclav Havel, Nelson Mandela, Ai Weiwei, Alicia Keys and other inspiring advocates of human right...

Our guests is Bennie Mols , renowned science & technology journalist with a background in physics & philosophy on his fascination with AI & robotics and his dream that one day the co-author of a paper will be an AI. The history of artificial intelligence, from it being just science to being applicable What is fascinating about AI? What can AI NOT do? How would you explain the pace, the...

This episode’s guests is Tony Curzon Price , strategic advisor at the UK’s Cabinet Office, and an advisory board member of ours, with a polemic of tech-positive and tech-negative perspectives discussing the future of work, can we highlight more tangible explanations for geopolitical as well as social activity other than values and identity, Using technology as a tool, not a machine and what are th...

Bogolo Kenewendo is the founding president of Kenewendo Advisory , former Minister for Trade, Investment and Industry of Botswana. Bogolo led the Brexit trade negotiations on behalf of southern African nations and was a member of the UN high-level panel on digital cooperation .  We discuss the African Continent Free Trade Area that was signed the 1st of January, the kind of questions her advisory...

Discussion with MEP Marina Kaljurand, former Estonian Foreign Minister with interests in cybersecurity, transatlantic cooperation and digitalisation on all levels. What you’ll hear: Estonia as an e-nation:  “nobody has so far proved that online voting services are less secure than offline.” Estonia is the only country in the world that gives its citizens rights to vote online. The digital revoluti...

What you’ll hear in this episode with Prof. Jovan Kurbalija , Founding President of Diplo Foundation, ambassador of the internet, pioneer in cyber diplomacy and Head of the Geneva Internet Platform, secretariat member of the UN high-level panel on digital cooperation : As a person promoting technology for the past three decades, my question is what are we going to pass on? My concern is that gener...

With guest Cathy Mulligan on how cryptocurrency enters the debate about digital cooperation at a UN panel? Sustainability in 2030 when 30% of the world's energy will be taken up by cloud computing, thought experiments like “do you actually need a central bank?”, what does universal connectivity mean? If you’re being forced to use particular technologies because you're a developing countr...

What makes the Volkswagen Machine Learning Research Lab different from other research institutions? Creating technologies that really work - not just creating methodologies that show it could work and publishing. Robotics literature has solutions but it always has some problems - solving them so that it can be applied is what is sustainable.  “Our general technologies evolve around predicting the...

Should vaccine producing countries supply lower-income countries with the vaccine? Why? How much will COVID19 cost the world if we provide an equitable distribution of the vaccine across countries and how much if just the ones that can afford them vaccinate? Freshly published fascinating report on the impact of COVID19 “vaccine nationalism” on the global economy. RAND study (summary as well as ent...

Facebook & US elections update EU (& US!) vs Amazon on antitrust violations & anti-competitive behaviour Beijing drafts unprecedented antitrust rules for it’s Big Tech in a first attempt to curb the power of monopolies EU’s new budget & what does it mean for SMEs & generally research, technology, innovation, AI & more? A European shared data cloud? European technological so...

The National Research Cloud aims to bring together government, industry & research academia to create a cloud that enables better access to advanced AI technology to universities, research institutions & industry researchers. What would that mean for SMEs & research institutes to afford high-end AI tech? Is the USA losing it's AI edge over China? What about Europe? Are Facebook&ap...