The most extraordinary thing that’s happened in my adult intellectual lifespan is a demographic transition. The fact that human population fertility will reduce itself naturally in a non-coercive way if we get things right.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2019
Sustainably Feeding a Planet of 11 Billion
presented by Charles Godfray
Compassion through Computation: Fighting Algorithmic Bias
presented by Gideon Lichfield, Joy Buolamwini, Justine Cassell
I think the question I’m trying to formulate is, how in this world of increasing optimization where the algorithms will be accurate… They’ll increasingly be accurate. But their application could lead to discrimination. How do we stop that?
At places like Davos, people like to tell success stories. But their financial success has come with an unthinkable price tag. And on climate change, we have to acknowledge that we have failed. All political movements in their present form have done so, and the media has failed to create broad public awareness. But Homo sapiens have not yet failed.