Episode 19: AI in the Courtroom with Jordi Nieva-Fenoll

Episode 20: AI and the Future of Universities with Vincenco Ligorio

Will academic education soon be obsolete because of AI? This is a hot topic stirring lots of controversy. We talked to Vincenco Ligorio, currently Dublin based Hibernia College’s  Strategic Development Director and also in charge of academic innovation. The college focuses on educating educators. He sees education in a vast transformation process. However he provides an quite optimistic outlook and provides a peep into his strategy teaching his own son.

Episode 19: AI in the Courtroom with Jordi Nieva-Fenoll

He wrote a book on AI in the courtroom 8 years ago. It is still relevant today what is a rare event in today’s fast pacing of technology advancement. Jordi Nieva-Fenoll is professor of procedural law at the University of Barcelona. In this episode of Today & Tomorrow we talk with him about risk and opportunity of using AI in legal procedures, what legislators should be aware of either when using AI or regulating the use of it. Either has tremendous impact on our democracies.

Episode 18: How Nations Become Brands with Haya Mvita

“Made in Germany” or “Habibi, come to Dubai” are known brandings of a nation. However, Nation Branding is often mistaken for marketing, but in reality it goes much deeper, says Haya Mvita, who leads this field at the Diplomatic World Institute in Brussels. It is about building long-term trust, not only in a country’s external relations, but also within the nation itself. Especially in times of global transformation, further accelerated by technological progress, nation branding is becoming increasingly important. In conversation with Dieter Brockmeyer and Alexander Pinker, she explores the full spectrum of what this concept entails, including the role of AI and innovation as new soft- or smart power. She proposes the term Structural Power as new category instead. Potentially transformative and not without risk for International Relations are big tech-companies developing a kind of competitive sovereignty of their own.

Episode 17: When Data becomes Emotion and Art with Ferdi Alici

Ferdi Alici and his Ouchhh studio connect AI with art and create stunning installations reaching millions of people worldwide. His approach at the nexus of arts, technology and science is that project comes first and this determines what AI tolls are needed. This approach can serve as a blueprint on how to use AI without losing control and keep mankind on the creative driver’s seat. However, the Ouchhh process is complex since they do not use common tools like ChatGPT. They create their individual project tool boxes and compile specific data. Alici, considered an AI world star is very optimistic about our future and shows a path for the sustainable use of AI for the planet’s bright future

Episode 16: "What's space got to do with it" with Shelli Brunswick

What’s space got to do with it? Quiet a lot, from manufacturing new products and materials that ease our live on earth, to new models of leadership. The space industry is expanding its footprint more and more and it moves from being a heavily subsidized public space towards an flourishing business perspective. Shelli Brunswick knows it all from her long standing expertise as an executive of Space Foundation and now is setting up her own enterprise. Paperback book: https://a.co/d/6zmEJuu [https://a.co/d/6zmEJuu] Kindle ebook: https://a.co/d/gUfHmPD [https://a.co/d/gUfHmPD] (US) Shelli’s Website: https://shelli-brunswick.com/ [https://shelli-brunswick.com/]