What makes a life worth living? In this episode of The Butterfly Effect, I speak with Joël Naoki Christoph, a French economist, policy researcher and founder of 10Billion.org whose work spans AI governance, international cooperation, and nuclear risk reduction. His experiences inform our conversation about what we choose to do with our finite time. Together, we explore what it means to dream of a world where 10 Billion people can thrive and how we can sustain that goal amid everyday responsibilities?
This is Joël’s Butterfly Effect:
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More about Joël:
Joël Naoki Christoph is a French economist and policy researcher whose work spans artificial intelligence (AI) governance, nuclear risk reduction, international cooperation, and global public goods. He is the founder of 10Billion.org, an initiative that fosters cooperation on challenges that cross national borders. He is also a Pugwash-Carnegie Project Fellow at the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs and a research associate at the Institute for International Legal Relations at FernUniversität in Hagen, where he researches geoeconomics and technology governance. He has held fellowships and research positions at Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights, the University of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute and the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia. He has also consulted for the World Bank and the International Energy Agency.
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