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Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling author, in conversation with Rudyard Griffiths, Chair and moderator of the Munk Debates.

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On this week\\u2019s edition of the Friday Focus podcast, Janice and Rudyard start the show with a recap of last night\\u2019s mainstage Munk Debate on Artificial Intelligence. What did we learn from the debate? And, which arguments, \\u201cpro\\u201d and \\u201ccon\\u201d on AI being an existential threat, had the biggest impact on the course of the debate and the audience? On the back half of the show, exclusively for Munk donors, the conversation turns to this week\\u2019s disaster at the Titanic that saw a catastrophic failure of an experimental, private submarine and the deaths of five people. What does this accident say about today\\u2019s culture of innovation, risk-taking and regulation? And how should governments respond, at great public cost, to the failures of for-profit risk-takers?

This podcast is a project of the Munk Debates, a Canadian charitable organization dedicated to fostering civil and substantive public dialogue.

More information at www.munkdebates.com.