Insights May 25th, 2016

In Peter Thiel on the Global Economy and Artificial Intelligence we see the business founder and investor discuss America, globalization, and the state of technological innovation.
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  • Chapter 1 (00:1520:38): China and Globalization
  • Chapter 2 (20:3834:51): Is Innovation Slowing?
  • Chapter 3 (34:5157:38): On the Need to take Risks
  • Chapter 4 (57:381:23:23): Artificial Intelligence

In this wide-ranging conversation, his second on “Conversations with Bill Kristol,” Peter Thiel discusses the global economy, the state of technology, and the future of computing and artificial intelligence. Thiel argues that we have had less technological innovation over the last few decades and explains one reason is an increasing aversion to risk. Finally, Kristol and Thiel discuss artificial intelligence and the extent to which it might transform our lives.

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Nikolas Badminton is the Chief Futurist of the Futurist Think Tank. He is world-renowned futurist speaker, a Fellow of The RSA (FRSA), a media personality, and has worked with over 400 of the world’s most impactful companies to establish strategic foresight capabilities, identify trends shaping our world, help anticipate unforeseen risks, and design equitable futures for all. In his new book – ‘Facing Our Futures’ – he challenges short-term thinking and provides executives and organizations with the foundations for futures design and the tools to ignite curiosity, create a framework for futures exploration, and shift their mindset from what is to WHAT IF…

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