Citizen Juries Could Regulate Tech & How Clean Air Improves Lives | WEF | Top Stories of the Week
Channel: World Economic Forum
Date: 2024-02-10

This week's top stories of the week include:

0:15 Citizen juries could regulate new tech – Azeem Azhar says many people are wary of AI and other new digital technologies because they have no power over these tools’ development or deployment .

3:50 5 ways clean air improves our lives – "99% of people all over the world are breathing unhealthy air, according to the World Health Organization. So bringing that pollution level down will significantly reduce the 8 million deaths per year that happen prematurely because of pollution, and will really improve people's quality of life, reducing strokes, asthma attacks and cancer cases," says Jane Burston, CEO and Founder, Clean Air Fund.

7:02 How can leaders build trust? – "Trust is a confident relationship with the unknown. So when you see trust through this lens, you start to realize why it's the social glue of relationships, why it enables collaboration and organizations, and why you can't have innovation without trust," says Rachel Botsman

10:43 Rich countries can't ignore refugee crisis – There are 108.4 million forcibly displaced people in the world today, low and middle-income countries are hosting 76% of them. "Like climate, like pandemics, like poverty, like security, forced migration, forced population movements, refugees are a global challenge that requires global responses," says Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
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