Paris summit focuses on groundbreaking impact of AI
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🗓️ 10 February 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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An AI summit in Paris brings together world leaders, scientists and tech executives to discuss the groundbreaking impact of artificial intelligence, with EU nations and India playing “catch-up” to the US and China. Also, Senegal renames its streets that were named after French colonial figures to those of prominent Senegalese. And, Israeli police arrest two Palestinian bookstore owners in occupied East Jerusalem, with Arab and Jewish supporters protesting their detention in front of a Jerusalem court. Plus, conservationists build "sloth bridges" in Costa Rica to keep the animals safe.
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| 0:00.0 | On October 3rd, 1980, a bomb was detonated outside a synagogue on Copernic Street in Paris. |
| 0:06.0 | Three decades later, French investigators finally identified a suspect in the case. |
| 0:11.0 | A Lebanese Canadian sociology professor, living a quiet life on the outskirts of Ottawa, Canada. |
| 0:17.0 | Is Hassan Zyab guilty? |
| 0:19.0 | Can you introduce yourself? Or is the escapego? |
| 0:22.1 | Hassan Diab. From Canada land, this is the Copernic affair. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:32.9 | A police raid on a bookstore in East Jerusalem, followed by the arrest of the owners, sends a clear message. |
| 0:41.4 | If these two can be arrested for simply selling books that have the word Palestine in them, then nobody is safe. |
| 0:48.2 | I'm Marco Werman, today the chilling implications for free speech in Israel. |
| 0:52.1 | Also, a big artificial intelligence summit in France shows |
| 0:55.3 | that nobody wants to be left out. AI should serve the whole world and not just a small |
| 1:00.2 | handful of private actors based in the U.S. And in Senegal, street names are reminders of French colonial |
| 1:06.2 | rule. When you go out to big cities like Dakar, San Luis, at that time, they will choose French names in order to leave their imprint. |
| 1:14.9 | They mark on those cities forever. |
| 1:17.3 | Plus, we meet rapper MC Sophia. |
| 1:19.8 | Ah, preguisosa. |
| 1:21.9 | All coming up today here on the world. |
| 1:33.3 | I'm Marco Wurman. This is the world. Thank you for joining us. Carolyn Beeler has a day off. We begin the show in Paris where a high-stakes summit on artificial intelligence kicks off today. |
| 1:39.3 | It brings together world leaders, tech executives, and scientists to focus on the implications of AI for societies, |
| 1:46.0 | governments, and economies. And to be clear, global competition is a big theme. Just listen to |
| 1:51.0 | French President Emmanuel Macron addressing those gathered for the summit this morning. |
| 1:55.6 | I have a good friend in the other part of the ocean saying drill, drill. Here there is no need to drill. |
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