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H.B.R. presents. Hi there I'm Azimazar, host of the Exponential View podcast.

Now every week I get together with a fascinating mind to explore how technology is transforming our society, business and ultimately our future.

This week's podcast is slightly different.

I am going off air for the summer and before I come back to you with a new season in the fall,

I wanted to leave you with some reflections on some of the recent conversations we've had during this podcast series

and also I wanted to give you a heads up on some of the trends I'm going to be keeping my eyes on in the meantime. We have several summer specials to keep

your mind engaged over the next few months. They will combine my new insights and

thoughts on the nature of innovation, the new economy, the role of the state, the

new rules of geopoliticsolitics and so much more.

When we kicked off in January 2020, no one expected that only eight weeks later a pandemic would be spreading across the globe changing our lives forever.

There was something my first guest David Runtzman said that really stayed with me.

He noted that if the world ends it won't be because the killer robots get us. It'll be because the

states and corporations get us. Now David is a professor of politics at Cambridge University

at host of the Talking Politics Podcast and his passion is a history of ideas.

He cautioned that the relationship we should be concerned about is not the one between humans

and AI, but rather between AI and our artificial agents, organizations we build to promote wealth and security, state and business.

All over the world we've seen governments and businesses respond differently to COVID-19.

Their efforts are measured in lives saved and lives lost.

As we move forward, several of our conversations help make sense of this challenge.

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