Davos 2024: Trump's Iowa win and the future of AI
Power Play
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🗓️ 17 January 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump's emphatic victory in the Iowa caucuses has been the talking point of many at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. Meanwhile, the accelerating pace of artificial intelligence is also never far from the lips of those attending this year's WEF.
In today's edition of Power Play — continuing our special coverage of Davos — host Anne McElvoy explores these two prevailing themes.
Anne talks to Anthony Scaramucci, who was briefly White House director of communications under President Trump, about the impact technological advances like AI are having on the economy. They also dive into the consequences of the Iowa result for the United States and the rest of the world.
Then Anne talks to James Manyika, senior vice president of research, technology and society at Google, about how the how AI is changing the world before our eyes — a subject he's advised on from the White House to the world’s leading tech companies.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's Watson X governance helps organizations manage their AI responsibly at enterprise scale |
| 0:09.1 | and prepare for AI regulations coming worldwide. Learn more at IBM.com |
| 0:15.0 | slash governance. |
| 0:16.0 | I just want to thank you all. |
| 0:21.0 | There's a very special night and this is the first because the big night is going to be in November when we take back our country and truly we do make our country great again. Thank you very much everybody. |
| 0:37.0 | As news of the Iowa Caucasus sinks in here at Davos, the big players in politics and business certainly have a lot to ponder in a bumper election year ahead. |
| 0:50.4 | Welcome to Power Play, Politico's Transatlantic Podcast, where we talk to some of the world's most |
| 0:56.3 | influential people on both sides of the Atlantic. |
| 1:00.3 | I'm Anne McElvoy, and this week we're at the World Economic Forum and there are two questions on |
| 1:06.0 | the minds of delegates shuffling through the snow in their ski wear, AI and Iowa. Today I'll be getting reaction to events thousands of miles away as Donald Trump |
| 1:17.1 | celebrates a sore away victory in the Caucasus and we take the temperature on the topic that's dominating |
| 1:24.4 | conversation in the business community and beyond the impact generative AI is having on all of our livelihoods and profits. |
| 1:33.4 | I'll be joined by James Manneka, Senior Vice President of Technology and Society, that Google |
| 1:39.0 | has also advised the White House and many of the world's top companies on the impacts of technological advances |
| 1:46.0 | and by Anthony Skaramucci, Chairman of Skybridge Capital and former White House Director of Communications to Donald Trump no less. |
| 1:54.3 | Anthony Scaramichi, welcome to Power Play. |
| 1:56.9 | It's great to be on. |
| 1:57.9 | You're a well-known figure here among the financiers, the investors who are milling around here. I think most of them |
| 2:04.1 | want to come to your party in fact. But one of the things I'm struck by is they seem |
| 2:09.2 | quite bullish about the way the American economy is going in 2024, the pace of technological innovation |
| 2:17.6 | seems to them to be something of a friend and AI is a driving force there. |
| 2:22.3 | And then you've got other people sitting in rooms here saying |
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