Dex Hunter-Torricke

And of course,

a deeply complex world with technologies that change the way billions of people live and work, every industry, every government, the nature of our relationship with each other, with our communities.

That's something which it turned out

Very few people had any real understanding of what the full scale of those challenges would be, how interconnected they would be.

And I think there's been a widespread systemic failure of leadership across societies.

The tech industry absolutely...

has a lot of that responsibility.

They built these things.

They're things which they had the closest understanding of as they emerged.

But the failing is absolutely not exclusive.

We also had a absolutely historic collapse in leadership from political leaders, from a bunch of other people who have immense power on the trajectory of those technologies and how our society should respond.

If tech hadn't had all the effects it's had in the world, if you didn't have social media and smartphones and AI and so on...

I think it's probably quite likely that we'd still be facing huge crises at this point.

A bunch of these things are unfolding.

And of course, AI is a thing which I'm very focused on and is a big part of this.

But part of the reason what I'm doing now is in fact not just about tech really, is if AI vanished tomorrow, we would still have gargantuan problems.

We would still be in really bad shape.

It is the combination of the tech with a deeply broken world that adds up to the state of dysfunction we're in now.

I was a speechwriter.

So I was the company's first speechwriter.