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In this latest episode of Tools and Weapons, Microsoft's Vice Chair and President Brad Smith draws on the lessons from the printing press and supporting industries to illustrate how different technologies are coming together to create a new AI economy. He explains the critical partnerships between countries, regulators, and tech companies that are needed to build the infrastructure to run generative AI and develop the skills people need to use it. Smith also discusses how Microsoft’s AI Access Principles foster innovation and a path for new businesses by ensuring access, fairness, and responsibility.

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Last week, Microsoft announced a set of AI Access Principles via a keynote speech by Vice Chair and President Brad Smith at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. The AI Access Principles guide Microsoft's commitment to providing the broad technology access needed to empower organizations, developers, and countries to develop and use AI.

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Yves Ubelmann is a technologist, artist, and architect on a mission to digitally preserve the world’s cultural and natural heritage. He is the founder and CEO of Iconem, a company that creates stunning 3D models of endangered sites and environments. In this episode, Brad and Yves tour the subject of Iconem’s most ambitious project, an AI-generated twin of one of the world’s most magnificent cities: Venice. Inspired by his grandfather’s work to restore war-damaged heritage sites in France, Yves shares how he is using AI to memorialize the world’s heritage in 3D and raising awareness of the effects of climate change on our planet.

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The tech sector came together at the Munich Security Conference to take a vital step forward. Standing together, 20 companies announced a new Tech Accord to Combat Deceptive Use of AI in 2024 Elections, including Microsoft. Its goal is straightforward but critical – to combat video, audio, and images that fake or alter the appearance, voice, or actions of political candidates, election officials, and other key stakeholders. It is not a partisan initiative or designed to discourage free expression. It aims instead to ensure that voters retain the right to choose who governs them, free of this new type of AI-based manipulation. Learn more here.

Join Microsoft and GZERO Media for the premiere of Munich 2024: Protecting Elections in the Age of AI this Saturday at 12 pm ET/9 am PT/6 pm CET, a panel discussion that will be recorded live on Saturday at the Munich Security Conference.

European correspondent Maria Tadeo will moderate the Global Stage conversation examining the challenges of protecting election integrity across the 83 elections around the world in 2024. Amid concerns that AI tools and deep fake technologies could create a dangerous environment, how can AI be used instead to shore up the electoral process, protecting consumers and candidates against misinformation? The panel will include Ian Bremmer, President and Founder, Eurasia Group and GZERO Media; Fiona Hill, Senior Fellow, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings; and Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President, Microsoft.

Watch the live premiere at gzeromedia.com/globalstage.

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This week, Microsoft released the findings of its Global Online Safety Survey 2024 via a Microsoft On the Issues blog in support of Safer Internet Day. The annual survey seeks to raise awareness of the experiences of youth and families online and includes findings related to the early adoption of generative AI. It also highlights the availability of two new resources – a Family Online Safety Toolkit and a new educational game on Minecraft.

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This new episode of “Tools and Weapons” kicks off the new year with US Ambassador Nate Fick, America's top digital diplomat. Fick shares his goals as the first ambassador for cyberspace and digital policy, why he'd always choose his radio over his rifle, the parallels between philosophy and AI policy, and an inspiring reason for each of us to find time for national service.

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This new episode of “Tools and Weapons” kicks off the new year with US Ambassador Nate Fick, America's top digital diplomat. Fick shares his goals as the first ambassador for cyberspace and digital policy, why he'd always choose his radio over his rifle, the parallels between philosophy and AI policy, and an inspiring reason for each of us to find time for national service.

Subscribe and find new episodes monthly wherever you listen to podcasts.

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