Are we truly entering an ‘Intelligent Age’, as #WEF25 posits, driven by artificial intelligence, robotics and biotech advances? Hard to believe given the gravity of the challenges facing humanity. www.weforum.org/meetings/wor... - ThreadSky

agnescallamard.bsky.social • 77 days ago

Are we truly entering an ‘Intelligent Age’, as #WEF25 posits, driven by artificial intelligence, robotics and biotech advances?

Hard to believe given the gravity of the challenges facing humanity.

https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2025/

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agnescallamard.bsky.social•77 days ago

There is nothing intelligent about letting tech companies run amok, without robust safeguards to protect us from the worse effects of technology. There is nothing intelligent about letting technological leaps widen existing divisions and inequalities and facilitate authoritarian practices.

agnescallamard.bsky.social•77 days ago

There is nothing intelligent about allowing machines to make decisions to kill people; nothing intelligent about enabling the annihilation of international law, attacking international justice and pretending the Palestinians of Gaza are not the victims of a genocide by the Israel authorities.

agnescallamard.bsky.social•77 days ago

For all the promise of the digital age, it has brought widespread anxiety, heightened polarization and oceans of disinformation. Without ironclad human rights protections built into the heart of the technological development process, the utopia some promise could all too easily descend into dystopia

agnescallamard.bsky.social•77 days ago

Talk of safeguarding the planet will ring hollow if world leaders keep letting fossil fuel companies sacrifice our future through their relentless pursuit of profit. Corporate actors retreating from previous commitments will cause costly destruction and untold human rights violations.

agnescallamard.bsky.social•77 days ago

Protecting our planet must begin with commitments to vastly scale up climate finance and fund a rapid, full and just phaseout of fossil fuels, while helping affected communities adapt to the worst impacts of climate change and providing reparations for climate-caused losses and damages.

agnescallamard.bsky.social•77 days ago

Reimagining growth requires a genuine commitment to reforming the global financial system. If this is to be a worthwhile exercise, attendees must stop propping up the crumbling system that delivers unimaginable wealth to a tiny minority at the expense of the suffering of billions.

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