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Friday Focus: It's Getting Hot – Trump’s Trials
Season 2 Episode 83
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding dire…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Munk Dialogue with Jean Twenge: a clash of generations
On this Munk Debate podcast, we're talking about the clash of generations: Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z. How are these age groups - with vastly different life experiences and upbringings -…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Friday Focus: NATO Fallout – Google Thuggery
Season 2 Episode 82
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding dire…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Be it Resolved, affirmative action should be based on class, not race
In a landmark ruling, The United States Supreme Court rejected affirmative action at US colleges, determining that race should not be a factor in achieving educational diversity. The controversial de…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Friday Focus: Wither Europe? – Big Tech vs. Trudeau
Season 2 Episode 81
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding dire…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Munk Dialogue with AI Debaters Yann Lecun, Max Tegmark, Melanie Mitchell and Yoshua Bengio
On June 22nd we gathered at Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall for a live, sold out debate on Artificial Intelligence. We were joined on stage by four AI experts and pioneers to debate the resolution Be it R…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Friday Focus: Borat Coup – Affirmative Action
Season 2 Episode 80
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding dire…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Be it Resolved, AI research and development poses an existential threat
With the debut of ChatGPT, the AI once promised in some distant future seems to have suddenly arrived with the potential to reshape our working lives, culture, politics and society. For proponents of…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Friday Focus: AI Debate Recap – Titanic Mistake
Season 2 Episode 79
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding dire…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Munk Dialogue with James Bessen: how AI will transform the labour market
Some experts believe that over 300 million jobs worldwide will be automated by AI, with white collar professions in advanced economies being most affected by AI bots like ChatGPT. Radiologists, lawye…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago