Global Leaders Debate Money, Truth, and Power

Open to Debate

Education, Society & Culture, News, Government, Politics

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🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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From economic turbulence and the dilemmas posed by artificial intelligence to the big-picture challenges of our time, the pillars of money, truth, and power shape the complex global landscape. In partnership with the Future Investment Initiative (FII), join us as twelve of the world’s greatest thinkers debate: “Clash of the Titans: Three Grand Challenges Facing Humanity,” “What is Europe’s Economic Outlook?”, and “Will AI-Generated Entertainment Replace Human Creativity?” Emmy award-winning journalist John Donvan, Open to Debate CEO Clea Conner, and moderator and journalist Edie Lush moderate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.7	I'm John Donvan, you're a moderator in chief. Hi, everybody. This week, we go on the road. We're out in the field.
0:39.5	Actually, we went to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, took our whole team along to partner with the Future Investment Initiative Institute, which is a global nonprofit that centers its mission on innovation's positive impact on humanity.
0:52.1	And it does that by gathering together thinkers and innovators
0:55.0	from around the world, getting them together to try to turn ideas into real-world solutions.
1:00.3	We see this as part of Open to Debate's own global expansion and our mission to open minds about
1:05.3	challenges and grand challenges on an international stage. Given our mission to elevate public discourse and collective cooperation for the good of all,
1:13.6	we were pretty pleased to present debates on some vital topics to a very broad international community in Riyadh,
1:20.6	thus advancing the goal of creating civil dialogue to figure out the best ways to have the best impact on our shared future.
1:28.1	So with that knowledge on your part, here's a look at what we did at FII.
1:33.0	We sat down with the CEO of the Future Investment Initiative, Richard Atius,
1:37.1	to ask him about why we opened to debate were invited to participate as a knowledge partner
1:42.6	and what he hoped we would bring
1:45.0	to the annual gathering. Debate is extremely important because this is always from provocative
1:52.2	conversation, from creating opposition between ideas that you help people to make their own
2:00.4	opinion. And at the end of the day, what is important
2:03.8	is to have multiple opinions because I would say that on many topics like the future of Europe
2:11.3	or like the future of renewable energy or like is AI killing jobs or creating jobs, you need to hear different
2:20.6	opinions to make your own opinions.
2:23.0	So you cannot be a creator of debates and ideas unless you bring different opinions around
2:29.8	the same table.
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