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Policy Voices | Rutte’s first month as NATO’s Secretary-General

Oct 31 2024 23 mins

Mark Rutte has officially survived his first month in office. To take stock of what Rutte has been up to since his new job started, host Catarina Vila Nova sat down with Jamie Shea, Senior Fellow for Peace, Security and Defence at Friends of Europe, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges at NATO. They go over Rutte’s pivot to the Asia Pacif

Policy Voices | Fact-checking in the era of misinformation

Oct 24 2024 25 mins

Fact-checkers in the United States have been under harsh scrutiny during the US Presidential election regardless of what they choose to do. To fact-check or not to fact-check seems to be the question but for Angie Drobnic Holan, Director of the International Fact-Checking Network, journalists should never compromise on their commitment to the truth nor should they negotiate away th

Policy Voices | Only the US can influence Israel. But will it?

Oct 17 2024 24 mins

As much as this US presidential election has been dominated by domestic affairs such as the economy and reproductive rights – the current most consequential foreign policy issue is without a doubt the risk of a regional war in the Middle East. In this week’s episode of Policy Voices, host Catarina Vila Nova sits down with Gilbert Achcar, Professor of Development Studies and Int

Policy Voices | AI & Democracy: Looking ahead and shaping the future of AI and Democracy

Oct 10 2024 28 mins

Throughout this special series on AI & Democracy brought to you by Debating Europe we covered a lot of ground: from the impact on elections, to rules and regulations, ethics, and media literacy. In this episode of Policy Voices, host Catarina Vila Nova speaks with Sebastian Hallensleben, Head of Digitalisation and AI at VDE Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Techn

Policy Voices | AI & Democracy: Collaborating for a global impact

Oct 03 2024 33 mins

With the United States winning the AI race and the EU leading on legislative power, could this be the perfect match on global collaboration? It does seem like it but there might be some unintended consequences to the EU’s regulation force with the US taking a bit too personally Europe’s take on digital sovereignty. Bu despair not as this week’s guests remain optimistic noneth

Policy Voices | AI & Democracy: The role of policies and regulations

Sep 26 2024 25 mins

When regulating artificial intelligence, we want to make sure that the policies in place are conducive to innovation and don’t become a straightjacket. But as AI becomes a part of our daily lives, the worries that it will infringe on human rights are ever more present. In the fourth episode of the special series on AI & Democracy brought to you by Debating Europe, host Catarina V

Policy Voices | AI & Democracy: Empowering informed citizens

Sep 19 2024 31 mins

Soon enough, you will be able to send an AI-generated version of yourself to that Zoom meeting you’ve been dreading or ask it to stay on the phone for hours with customer service to cancel that gym subscription. It sounds like a dream, right? But this also means that, soon enough, we will no longer be able to distinguish fact from fiction when watching the news. In this third ep

Policy Voices | AI & Democracy: Preserving democratic principles in the AI era

Sep 12 2024 37 mins

When it comes to artificial intelligence, two narratives dominate: it will either be catastrophic or the solution to all of humanity’s problems. The reality is not so black and white and we are actually operating in a much greyer terrain. However, there are real concerns surrounding ethics and artificial intelligence but there are ways to preserve democratic principles in the AI

Policy Voices | AI & Democracy: Unveiling the impact on elections

Sep 05 2024 36 mins

With the arrival of artificial intelligence, elections are a significant area of concern. AI has the potential to supercharge the misinformation and disinformation space but as much as these fears are legitimate, the concerns appear to be overblown. Nonetheless, with the US elections less than two months away, the time is ripe for caution around the use of AI during the campaign, e

Policy Voices | Mid-year world tour with Pauline Neville-Jones, Dacian Cioloș

Jul 26 2024 44 mins

So much has happened in the first half of this year and to take stock of where we find ourselves now, Dharmendra Kanani, Chief Spokesperson at Friends of Europe, spoke with Dacian Cioloș, former Romanian prime minister, and former European commissioner for agriculture, and Pauline Neville-Jones, Member of the House of the Lords National Security Strategy Joint Committee.