S24 Ep10: Nina Schick - The Future of Information Integrity

This week, we’ve got another fascinating conversation recorded at the 2023 ISF Congress in Rotterdam. This time, Steve speaks with generative AI expert Nina Schick. Nina and Steve discuss how AI, along with other technological trends that are evolving at exponential speed, are shaping both geopolitics and individual lives.


Key Takeaways:
1. Generative AI is reshaping the geopolitical landscape.
2. Educating ourselves and others about the implications of quickly evolving tech in global affairs.
3. Industries struggling to regulate exponential technology.
4. There are more questions than answers as we look to the future in tech.


Tune in to hear more about:
1. AI’s geopolitical impacts (3:13)
2. Learning about how tech is impacting global affairs (9:53)
3. Regulation challenges (11:55)
4. Nina Shick’s take on the economics of generative AI (16:27)



Standout Quotes:

1. “As the oil economies of Saudi Arabia and UAE seek to diversify away from oil and energy, one of the things that they're doing is trying to become very high tech economies when artificial intelligence is absolutely leading the way with these strategies. And there's so much money going to be invested in the Gulf in the coming decade when it comes to artificial intelligence. Again, even though these are relatively small countries, they are perhaps going to punch above their weight when it comes to power that is harnessed by artificial intelligence. And that means in a military sense, in an economic sense, and ultimately, you know, a geopolitical sense.” -Nina Schick

2. “I think the harder thing also are the non technical solutions – you know, education, literacy – how do people get upskilled in terms of understanding the new capabilities of artificial intelligence and how they will be deployed in their respective domains? So I think it's not only that there are technical solutions, there are also societal and learning solutions which perhaps we're going to have to get on top of very, very quickly.” -Nina Schick

3. “Regulators have to work with industry. There's no way they can do this themselves. And already in many of the kind of more promising areas with dealing with some of the challenges, such as information integrity, when you come to questions like provenance, you see industry championing the way and supporting regulators.” -Nina Schick

4. “Will there be economic value associated with AI? I think, absolutely. But the question is, how's that going to be distributed? And is it going to be monopolized? So that's going to happen with regards to the tech giants, who I think will become very, very, very powerful. I think this will continue to be a priority of utmost importance to governments. I think this challenge, or this kind of race between China and the US with regards to artificial intelligence will continue to play out. I think the Middle East is going to become a strong contender. And I suspect Europe might fall behind a little bit … And actually, I think that this technology is also going to be in the hands of millions of people.” -Nina Schick

Mentioned in this episode:

• Threat Horizon 2024: the Disintegration of Trust
• ISF Analyst Insight Podcast
  
  

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