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When AI Becomes “Smarter than Its Developers”
Art & DesignIn one of his last interviews, the late German author, filmmaker and philosopher Alexander Kluge explores Artificial Intelligence and its ability to reveal hidden truths in unexpected ways.
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Opportunities of a Sustainable Economy
BusinessAhead of DLD Munich 2026, Stientje van Veldhoven (World Resources Institute) highlights the many benefits of shifting from extractive business models to sustainable ones.
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Photonic Chips: Computing at Lightspeed
DLD26Michael Förtsch, Founder and CEO of Q.ANT, explains how optical computing can give AI a boost at much lower energy needs – and open up a whole new world of supercomputing.
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Generative AI in 2024: “The Year of Delivery”
McKinsey digitalization expert Rodney Zemmel explains where AI brings real benefits and how companies can best implement the technology in their businesses.Read the Article - Social & Politics

The Hidden Link Between Climate Change and National Security
As nature suffers, so do humans. Security researcher Florian Krampe explains why climate action is crucial to preventing conflicts, near and far.Read the Article - Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Radical Innovation: “I’m Not Giving You Money So You Can Succeed”
Astro Teller, head of Alphabet’s Moonshot Factory, tells DLD why world-changing ideas world must beat the odds of failure – again and again, in the most efficient way.Read the Article - Art & Design

“Art for All, Open to Everyone.” Meet London’s Serpentine Galleries
Get the inside view on one of the world’s leading cultural institutions, as Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist explains Serpentine’s mission and how he came to be DLD’s creative pathfinder…Read the Article - Life & Science

Biodiversity: “We Have to Put a Price on Natural Capital”
Preserving the planet’s resources is not just essential to our own survival, it will be good business to lead the way, Matthew Gould, CEO of the Zoological Society of London,…Read the Article
“The winners in AI are whoever have the most data. And the good news is that the good guys have way more data than the bad guys have.”
“We have done studies that show that people, when they have AI at their fingertips, are less creative. They come up with fewer different solutions to problems than when they don’t have AI available.”
“The bigger the change that’s possible, the less we’ll understand it. And the less we’re even able to conceive of what would happen.”
“Over half of the world’s GDP is dependent on nature and the services it provides. Yet our human activity is pushing ecosystems towards irreversible tipping points.”
“Best practice thinking, that mindset is about locking the future into the past. It’s about learning from the past and continuing to perpetuate that.”
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