Episode Seventeen: Why do you believe that? The big drivers of change with Gregg Guerin

"The transitional phase is super bumpy, but we must go through it."

In this episode I am joined by Gregg Guerin, a friend for a number of years - and the person I often find myself talking to about trends and megatrends in the wee hours at the end of conferences! Yes I am that obsessed with this topic!

In this episode our conversation covers a lot of ground, here are the main points:

- The very timely topic of AI implications and benefits of what we know so far

- Energy transition, the need for storage, and how this changes international energy trade

- How progress is fractious and disruptive in the short term, but extraordinarily positive in the long term

- Should the government have a role in transitional assistance?

- Job disruption  and re-skilling: evidence from COVID when people switched.

- Coding in the world of AI and ChatGPT capabilities. Is it a game changer? 

- Degrowth and it's economic flaws, and it as

- Why innovation and the pace of change is NOT linear, and how Doomsayers get this wrong

- Investment shift towards ESG, and some of the issues with a centralised process

- Human intentions are good, but conclusions and the applications that follow aren’t always that well thought through

- The invisible world is where the key drivers are, but few people look at this, and only look at surface events

- How innovation and economic progress is the facilitator of the Global Order, China and US tensions

- Regulation and the keys to a well function free-market

- Biases in early version of AI and search engines, and the link with centrally planned structures.

- We are not powerless to make change in the world, we have agency

 

Gregg referred to this article: https://hbr.org/2018/07/collaborative-intelligence-humans-and-ai-are-joining-forces