DLD 2023: Quantum computing, Auschwitz-Birkenau, designing living brains & ubiquitous AI
In this special KEEN ON episode from DLD, Andrew talks to five speakers at Munich's iconic annual tech conference: Stanford University professors Erik Brynjolffson and Amy Wilkerson; Andy Kitchen, founder of Cortical Labs; Wojciech Soczewica, Director General of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation; and the data scientist and tv host Deborah Berebichez. These conversations range from Quantum computing and designing living brains to virtual tours of Auschwitz-Birkenau & our second machine age of ubiquitous AI
ABOUT DLD: Founded in 2005 as an intimate gathering of friends, DLD (Digital – Life – Design) has developed into Europe’s leading innovation conference for visionaries from around the globe. Co-chairs Steffi Czerny and Yossi Vardi have created an interdisciplinary and internationally connected platform for people eager to change the world in the digital era. DLD takes pride in the unexpected and presents insights from business, politics, science and art.
ABOUT ANDREW KEEN: Name as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.
Episode 2525: Jocelyn Benson offers an morally purposeful alternative to Trumpism
Episode 2524: Martin Wolf on whether Trump's tariffs are as dumb as they seem
Episode 2522: Edmund Fawcett on Trump as a Third Way between Liberalism and Conservatism
Episode 2521: Michael Stein on the Real Lives of the American Working Class
Episode 2520: Larry Aldrich on what's Right with America
Episode 2519: Is Criticism of Israel, by definition, Anti-Semitic?
Episode 2518: 100 Days or 100 Years?
Episode 2517: Soli Ozel on the Light at the End of the Authoritarian Tunnel
Episode 2516: Jason Pack on the Trumpian Post-Apocalypse
Episode 2515: David A. Graham on how Project 2025 is Reshaping America
Episode 2514: How to turn America into a Waymo Democracy
Episode 2513: Adam Hochschild on how American History is Repeating itself, first as Tragedy, then as Trump
Episode 2512: Adam Becker on AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity