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🗓️ 27 January 2025
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Last week’s annual gathering of the rich and powerful at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, was a bit overshadowed by the inauguration of Donald Trump in the U.S. The president made a virtual appearance at the conference, delivering a speech that hit on several of his recurring themes: tariffs, inflation and artificial intelligence. AI has been a big topic at the summit for several years. But the way it was treated this year felt different, according to Reed Albergotti, tech editor at news website Semafor. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino caught up with Albergotti just as he was wrapping up his reporting at Davos.
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0:00.0 | AI was the talk of Davos, but world leaders aren't exactly speaking with one voice about the risks. |
0:08.9 | From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty Carrino. |
0:17.7 | The annual gathering of the rich and powerful at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last week, was a bit overshadowed this year by the inauguration of Donald Trump. |
0:29.6 | The president made a virtual appearance at the conference, delivering a speech that hit on several of his recurring themes, tariffs, inflation, and AI. |
0:39.8 | The United States has the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth, and we're going to use it. |
0:46.3 | Not only will this reduce the cost of virtually all goods and services, |
0:50.8 | it'll make the United States a manufacturing superpower and the world capital of |
0:56.5 | artificial intelligence and crypto. AI has been a big topic at the summit for several years, |
1:03.5 | according to Reid Al-Brogati, the tech editor at news website Semaphore. But he said this year |
1:08.6 | felt different. We caught up with him just as he was |
1:11.6 | wrapping up his reporting at Davos. It was interesting just to sort of compare it to last year. |
1:17.3 | I was in Davos last year. And AI felt like it was everything at the conference last year. |
1:24.6 | And it really kind of was sort of in the wake of the chat GPT craze. |
1:31.2 | And I think there was actually sort of panic about what this was going to mean for the world. |
1:36.4 | You know, there were all sorts of panel discussions about, you know, every, every possibility |
1:41.1 | from AI, like destroying all of humanity to taking away all the jobs. |
1:46.1 | This year, the panic was really gone. |
1:49.4 | Most of the conversations I heard were sort of really kind of focused on the here and now. |
1:54.4 | What is happening with this technology now? |
1:57.1 | And, you know, our companies actually getting ROI from their AI deployments. |
2:03.5 | There were, you know, people from the media industry talking about, you know, how unfair it is, |
2:08.1 | that these these AI models were trained using, you know, their technology. |
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