Oxford Lives - Episode 73 with Mark Robinson

In today's episode of Oxford Lives we talk with Senior Advisor to the Oxford Martin School's AI initiative, Mark Robinson. Mark has a long history in technology procurement and science diplomacy. His mission now is to research and disseminate ways and means by which governments and big tech can come together to monitor the progress of the world's most rapidly evolving technology and preempt any potential calamities. But as Mark explains here, nobody can predict anything for certain… Links: My 2025 International Affairs Journal paper: https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiaf105 My 2020 Global Policy Paper on Science Collaborations and Lessons for Global Governance: https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12861 The Oxford Martin School AI Global Governance website: AI Governance | Oxford Martin School Here are the books I mentioned (Thomas is part of Blavatnik School of Governance): Thomas Hale, David Held, Beyond Gridlock ISBN: 978-1-509-51571-4, October 2017, Polity Press Marietje Schaake, The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley (Princeton University Press; Sept 2024) thetechcoup.com – How to save Democracy from Silicon Valley

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