ISF Podcast15 Huhti 2025

S33 Ep6: The Human Advantage: Thriving in Times of Technological Uncertainty

In today’s episode, Steve speaks with Tavia about how AI and other emerging technology are reshaping society, and how we as humans should react to it.

Key Takeaways:

AI and other emerging tech can help society, but guardrails are needed.
The world is becoming more fragmented when it comes to how it views AI and tech.
With AI and new technology, we have to be increasingly cautious in our interactions in cyberspace.

Tune in to hear more about:

Why it’s unlikely there will be international rules around AI (4:32)
How technology is changing how we interact – and what that means (7:12)
What people 50 years from now might say about how we’re currently handling emerging tech (22:28)

Standout Quotes:

“We need to be putting in place guardrails, particularly when it comes to AI, around how it's going to be used, because we are playing with a technology, the power of which we don't fully understand yet.” - Steve Durbin
“I think it is about how we get the balance right. I think that it isn't about shutting down some of the technological advances that we're seeing, it is about just being a little bit more realistic about their fallibility and trying to get equilibrium back between people and tools.” - Steve Durbin
“I suspect that what they will do is take a look back and go, why on earth did they do that? Why on earth didn't somebody see that there was a better way? Because that's with the benefit of hindsight, isn't it? And we've got 20-20 vision when it comes to hindsight. And so I think that we are in the here and now and we need to find a way of muddling through. And I think that everybody has a responsibility to do that.” - Steve Durbin

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