World Economic Forum
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These podcasts bring you the full audio from World Economic Forum events, including the Annual Meeting in Davos.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Agenda Dialogues makes AI and robotics legible through panel debates about trust, safety, deployment and the institutions responsible for governing them.
Agenda Dialogues treats technology as a governing problem, using moderated panel sessions to connect AI and robotics with public trust, safety, regulation and economic policy.
An AI pioneer gets the microphone; you get to hear who thinks society should set the limits.
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A clear policy discussion of Latin America's growth problem, centered on Brazil's fiscal turn and Mexico's industrial pressures.
Latin America's growth challenge comes through as a problem of coordination, not just ambition. The discussion ties stronger growth to fiscal reform, industrial policy, regional integration, and digitization, while keeping political risk and pressure from the United States in…
A sober chief economist briefing on how war moves through energy, markets, demand, and policy.
The Chief Economist briefing follows the economic shock of the escalating conflict in the Middle East through energy, food, financial markets, and the policy choices that may follow.
A Davos panel shifts from AI scaling to the institutions that may decide what intelligence actually changes.
AI's next phase is treated here as a problem scaling alone may not answer. Nicholas Thompson leads a Davos discussion with Yashua Bengio, Yijun Choi, and Eric Zhang, before Yuval Noah Harari joins and pulls the focus toward the human systems AI would enter.
A data-led review of how gender parity connects to legal rights, leadership, growth, and economic resilience.
Global gender parity is treated here as an economic question with measurable consequences. The discussion uses the World Economic Forum's 2025 Global Gender Gap Report, which tracks 148 economies and finds that 68.8 percent of the gap has closed, as a starting point for a…
A panel weighs China's AI momentum against softer confidence and the pressure to turn innovation into productivity.
China's Economy Analyzed frames China's economic outlook as a tension between fast technological ambition and weaker confidence on the ground.
Host Jack Rhysider narrates true hacking, breach, and privacy stories from the people involved.
David Pierce and Verge staffers cover AI industry news, gadgets, and tech policy weekly.
Long-form interviews on AI coding agents, infrastructure, and security, plus a recurring SED News roundup.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
David Sparks and Stephen Robles dig into Keyboard Maestro, Shortcuts, and Mac automation weekly.
Agenda Dialogues examines climate and health through World Economic Forum estimates of 14.5 million climate-related deaths and $12.5 trillion in economic impact by 2050.
Agenda Dialogues brings Deva Newman of the MIT Media Lab and Jan LeCun of Meta together to debate how AI, robotics, generative biology, and sensor networks should be governed.
Agenda Dialogues’ “Who Trusts the Machines?” examines why surveys reported pro-AI attitudes of 72% in China, 74% in India, and 34% in Japan.
Michael Spence moderates Agenda Dialogues’ debate with Raquel Bernal, Larry Summers, and Sian Bellock on the purpose and reform of post-secondary education.
Agenda Dialogues centers on China's economy with Tianwei moderating a World Economic Forum and CGTN panel on tariffs, AI, consumers, and reform.
The Briefing Room from the World Economic Forum uses the 2025 Global Gender Gap Report to measure progress toward parity across 148 economies.
This episode from the World Economic Forum's Agenda Dialogues features a panel discussion on ensuring AI benefits all societies, avoiding the digital divide seen with past technologies.
This episode explores cybersecurity challenges in global conflicts, featuring experts discussing threats like cyber biothreats and infrastructure attacks, with insights from Cloudflare's CEO on defending against billions of daily attacks.
This episode discusses climate policy in the wake of Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, reviewing COP29 achievements like finance targets and carbon markets, and looking ahead to COP30 in Brazil as a key milestone for global action.
In Agenda Dialogues, Steve Pinker evaluates the arc of progress in the 21st century through life expectancy, health, food security, prosperity, peace, rights, literacy, happiness, and suicide.
Gillian Tett frames Agenda Dialogues around Latin America's growth ceiling, tying the discussion to Venezuela, surging political-risk insurance premiums, the EU-Mercosur deal, China, and the United States.
["Agenda Dialogues in Geneva frames the war in the Middle East as a global macro shock that could hit energy, food, finance, and policy.", "Saad Rahim of Trafigura says the physical oil market is already absorbing a disruption of 10 to 15 million barrels a day, with Asia and Africa feeling it before Europe and the United States.", "Massimo Torero of the FAO says oil, gas, fertilizers, and sulfur are already raising input costs for farmers in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Kenya, Somalia, Turkey, and Jordan.", "Razia Khan and Ludovic Subran focus on Saudi Arabia's east-west pipeline, Qatar's LNG outlook, the Strait of Hormuz, and insurance and financial-market spillovers that could last months."]
["At Davos, Nicholas Thompson of The Atlantic moderates an Agenda Dialogues panel on the next phase of AI with Yashua Bengio, Yijun Choi, Eric Zhang, and Yuval Noah Harari.", "Bengio argues that Scientist AI and Law Zero should produce honest probabilistic predictions, because current systems can develop unwanted goals, self-preservation, and even blackmail-like behavior.", "Choi calls today's systems jagged intelligence and pushes continual learning or test-time training, while Zhang divides intelligence into textual, physical, social, and philosophical layers.", "Harari says AI is not converging with the human mind, and the panel spends much of the hour debating open source, dangerous capabilities, and who should control release thresholds."]