Transcript
Transcript: Insights on Change
[00:00:00 Text on screen: Insights on Change.]
[00:00:10 Text on screen: Tom Jenkins, Chair of the Board, OpenText.]
Tom Jenkins: All of us, all human beings have to grapple with the fact that machines are coming that are faster and more intelligent than we are. It doesn't make them wiser. It doesn't make them more creative, but we have to redefine what our role is in society adjacent to these machines. And we've always redefined ourselves. Humans are adaptable, but it will be the greatest adaptation challenge, so far.
[00:00:37 Text on screen: "The well-spring of ideas is diverse and dynamic, with ministers and civil servants drawing on a range of formal and informal networks, expertise, interests, and stakeholders."
Iain Stewart
Policy Leadership from Without: The Use, Design, Launch, and Support of Arms-Length Panels, p. 5]
[00:00:49 Text on screen: Margaret MacMillan, Historian │ Expert on War & Diplomacy │ Oxford Professor.]
Margaret MacMillan: And so, peace is something that you don't just sit back and say, isn't that lovely? The blue birds are singing. Peace is something that you have to work at. You have to rebuild, and you have to build trust, and you have to build friendships, and you have to build shared goals and shared values, and you try and build shared institutions.
[00:01:05 Text on screen: Jim Balsillie, Retired Chairman and Co-CEO, Research in Motion (Blackberry).]
Jim Balsillie: Innovation for the purposes of economy is the commercialization of ideas, so they're synonymous, but our policy discourse conflates the invention research with the innovation. It's not innovation until you get money.
[00:01:26 Text on screen: "Success in arms-length advice is as much about changing the landscape of an issue, and opening doors for new possibilities, as it is about telling the government what to do."
Iain Stewart
Policy Leadership from Without: The Use, Design, Launch, and Support of Arms-Length Panels, p. 28]
[00:01:38 Text on screen: David Eaves, Public Policy Entrepreneur | Open Government Advocate | Associate Professor of Digital Government, University College London.]
David Eaves: We wrote this piece about how if you look across the political spectrum, there's a group of people who want to tear all of those institutions down because they don't think they're fit for purpose. And then, there's a whole bunch of people who really want to preserve them no matter what and keep them, like protect them because any change will threaten them. We may need to re-think the way that government is structured and the way that it works, in the same way that the private sector has been torn apart and had to re-build itself as a result of this technology.
[00:02:04 Text on screen: "It is possible to lead ambitious reforms and to make choices in a principled and defensible way for citizens and public servants."
Canada's Federal Spending Reviews
50 Years of Facts, Figures, and Lessons, p. 50]
[00:02:15 Text on screen: Abdi Aidid, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Faculty of Law | Canada Research Chair, Artificial Intelligence and Access to Justice]
Abdi Aidid: So, one thing that excites me is our children being in a world with frictionless access to information. Then I imagine that we're going to have greater occasion for things like scientific breakthroughs; we're going to have greater opportunity for things like reducing the incidence of disease; we're going to have, I think, significant social, health, economic upside associated with the free flow of information.
[00:02:42 Text on screen: Yoshua Bengio, Artificial intelligence researcher | Professor (Université de Montréal) | Co-president (LoiZéro) | Founder (Mila)]
Yoshua Bengio: To have a chance of finding a path that is beneficial for us, for humanity, we will have to pull ourselves out of our ruts, let our imaginations run wild, be rigorous in this work, be creative in the solutions we deploy, and open ourselves to ways of understanding things that are very different from what we have experienced all our lives. And it takes mental flexibility, it takes creativity, and it takes us working together and listening to each other to find a path that will be positive for everyone.
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