Season 2, episode 4
Our society is more unequal than ever, as the top 1% control over 44% of the world’s wealth while 689 million people are living on less than $1.90 per day, according to the World Bank.
In this episode of Mind Over Chatter, we asked our guests what the future of fairness, justice, and equality should look like, and how their research can help to bring about a fairer society.
We cover topics ranging from distributive justice, the virtues and vices of empathy, and the role AI will play in shaping equality in the years to come.
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Dr Alexa Hagerty, whose research looks at the global societal impacts of emerging technologies and Dr Natalie Jones, who focuses on global injustice and the rights of (indigenous) peoples, shared how injustice can be thought of as an existential risk to humanity.
Anthropologist, Professor Esra Ozyurek, who seeks to understand the tension between politics and religion in Turkey and in Europe, introduced us to the importance of understanding that different people have different needs, making equality insufficient to bring about justice.
Key points
[02.07]- what do we mean by fair when it comes to societies?
[06:45]- the difference between fairness, justice, and equality
13:13]- cognitive empathy and emotional empathy distinction
[13:50]- Time for recap 1: summary so far
[20:21]- how to link global injustice and different voices to existential risk
[20:44]- participatory futures intro
[21:21]-global justice causing existential risk
