Can AI solve our problems?

This summer, two big films are slugging it out at the box office: Oppenheimer and Barbie. Each devoted to a mid-20th century creation some may wish had never been invented. There’s the horrific possibility of mutually assured destruction, which we have lived with for almost 80 years, and there’s more than 60 years of little girls looking at that blonde, blue-eyed doll with the hourglass figure and wondering how they can ever look like that. Like it or not, these two inventions are here to stay. And now, in the first quarter of the 21st century, we are debating a new, and some say, potentially existential new invention: artificial intelligence (AI). In this week’s Inside Geneva podcast, we take a look at the possibilities for artificial intelligence, good, bad, and downright terrifying, with expert views from the UN, the industry, and academics. When ChatGPT first hit the headlines last year, I was intrigued, but pretty ignorant. I hadn’t given AI much thought up until that point.