Tech companies have moved fast to manifest the great promise of digital transformation, chasing rapid growth and sometimes disruption as an end in itself. The world has turned information technology into both a powerful tool and a formidable weapon, and today we are at an inflection point. Enormous challenges such as privacy, cybercrime and cyberwar, social media, the moral conundrums of AI, big tech’s relationship to inequality, and effects on democracy, come with no existing playbook.
Microsoft’s Brad Smith believes that when your technology changes the world, you bear a responsibility to help address the world you played a part in creating. Tech companies and governments must work together to address the challenges and adapt to the changes technology has unleashed. And governments will need to regulate technology by moving faster and catching up with the pace of innovation that is impacting our communities and changing the world.
This provocative, compelling conversation addresses some of the thorniest issues faced by industry and society today. How can the hopes technology offers be protected against the very real threats it also presents?
Speakers
Brad Smith, President, Microsoft
Interviewer: Ina Fried, Chief Technology Correspondent, Axios
14 окт 2024
