A look at what’s on the docket at Davos 2024
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🗓️ 16 January 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Today is the first full day of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Among the challenges to be discussed are artificial intelligence, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, election integrity and the climate crisis. We’ll hear more about what to expect from the meeting of global leaders. Then, Lebanon is projected to slide back into recession as its tourism industry feels the economic shock of the Israel-Hamas war.
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| 0:00.0 | The world takes on artificial intelligence, |
| 0:03.7 | Edavos, from Marketplace. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm Sabrie Beneshore, in for David Brancaccio. |
| 0:08.3 | First, congressional leaders have come to an agreement |
| 0:11.1 | to kick the government shutdown can down the road a little further. |
| 0:14.9 | They unveiled a short-term spending bill that would keep federal agencies going until the beginning |
| 0:18.6 | of March. |
| 0:19.6 | It needs to be passed and signed by Friday, or else government agencies overseeing transportation |
| 0:24.2 | and housing among other things run out of money. The first full day of the World Economic |
| 0:29.4 | Forum in Davos Switzerland is underway. This is the meeting where world leaders hash out solutions |
| 0:34.0 | to global challenges. One of those this year is artificial intelligence. War, |
| 0:39.4 | election integrity, and growing economic inequality are also up there. |
| 0:43.2 | Marketplace's as Nova Safo is here with more Hynova. |
| 0:45.8 | Good morning. |
| 0:48.8 | Well, let's start with AI. |
| 0:50.7 | What are we hearing? |
| 0:51.7 | Yeah, several things. |
| 0:54.0 | One is a survey from consulting from PWC |
| 0:56.0 | tracking what CEOs are thinking about |
| 0:58.0 | and they're worried about disruptions brought on by AI |
| 1:01.0 | and climate change, and 45% of the CEO surveyed |
| 1:04.8 | said their company might not survive a decade without reinvention. In the |
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