Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)
This week’s top stories of the week include:
0:13 – Matt Damon on how to stop water poverty holding back women and girls: Actor Matt Damon has been a water activist since 2006, when a film shoot in Zambia brought him face-to-face with what a lack of clean water and sanitation looks like. He went on to co-found Water.org with sector expert Gary White. Here, the pair discuss their WaterCredit initiative, which extends affordable micro-loans to help people build, access and pay for their own water supplies and toilets.
04:57 – Yoshua Bengio has a solution to make AI honest and safe: As AI is rolled out rapidly by corporations and countries in heavy competition, is the world taking full account of the risks? Yoshua Bengio says not. Bengio is a world-renowned expert on deep learning and one of the people hailed as the ‘godfather of AI’. Here, Bengio explains why caution should be the watchword with AI.
10:04 – These microbes ‘upcycle’ plastic waste into medicine for Parkinson’s disease: Parkinson’s is a degenerative neurological condition that affects 8.5 million people around the world, causing issues with sleep, movement and cognition. Now scientists are using microbes to produce a drug that fights some of the symptoms of Parkinson’s, in a process that also reduces plastic pollution.
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