AI and Global Disorder

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Artificial intelligence is acquiring the power to reshape global affairs faster than we can understand, regulate or control it. Its consequences already extend far beyond technological innovation, affecting politics, security, the economy and the information on which we depend.

Drawing on George Osborne’s work leading OpenAI’s partnerships with governments around the world, Misha Glenny’s investigations into cybercrime and international criminal networks, and Verity Harding’s experience at DeepMind and her work on AI governance and geopolitics, this conversation asks how AI is changing the global order.

Will it deepen instability, empower authoritarian states and criminal organisations, and make truth harder to establish? Or do such dystopian narratives obscure its capacity to strengthen institutions, expand opportunity and help solve problems that have long resisted human solutions?