Deborah Spar

In this episode, Felix and Mihir debate with their colleague Deborah Spar, Senior Associate Dean for Business and Global Society at Harvard Business School, the role of government in regulating AI. How do we make sure we get the best out this groundbreaking technology? Should we keep government out of the way, at least for the time being? Is industry self-regulation sufficient to prevent the worst? Are we contending with an existential threat? Plus, we discuss the vanishing division between our professional and our private lives. Is it mostly a boon? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Deborah Spar är professor vid Harvard Business School och expert på den kommersialiserade bebisindustrin, medan Hank Greeley är författare som utforskar framtiden för mänsklig reproduktion. Tillsammans diskuterar de hur teknologiska framsteg inom fertilitet och surrogatmödraskap skapar nya familjedynamiker. De tar upp etiska dilemman kring genetisk anpassning och oreglerade marknader för reproduktion. Dessutom utforskar de riskerna med kommersialiseringen av föräldraskap och hur detta påverkar samhället och individuella drömmar.

Eve Rodsky, bestselling author on household fairness; Richard Schwartz, Harvard psychiatrist studying marriage and loneliness; Debora Spar, HBS professor on tech and relationships. They trace marriage from economic contract to romantic ideal. They debate unequal domestic labor, rising parenting standards, loss of communal support, loneliness in single households, and policy and practical fixes for modern family life.