Ep 28: Taavi Rõivas
on the future of driverless cars & AI, Estonia’s unicorns and government - business interaction
Taavi Rõivas is the Chairman of Auve Tech, an Estonian producer and operator of self-driving vehicles and autonomous transportation systems that are already operational on public roads. He is also former Prime Minister of Estonia, a long-time member of the Estonian Parliament, and an international public speaker on e-government, cyber security, AI, and other related topics.
In this episode, we discuss the development and promise of the self-driving vehicle industry, the interaction of government & business, how to clone Estonia’s success, the future of work and retirement as well as the risks of the development of AI and increasing government power.
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The topics covered in this episode (with Timestamps)
🔈 [01:45] INTRODUCTION, AUVE TECH, AND THE SELF-DRIVING INDUSTRY
Reinventing last-mile delivery of people
Use Cases for driverless vehicles
Estonia as a hub for driverless vehicle companies
Funding of development for such high-risk business
🔈 [25:00] ON GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS
What’s behind Estonia’s success from the state perspective
Practical reasons for going digital
Vision for cross-border digital public services
Legacy systems are an excuse
Digital adoption psychology
Role of the government for business environment development
Example of Finland as a historical roadmap
The promise of the Baltics as a remote work paradise
Unicorn nation and if the govt helped
How to keep on the success path
Challenges in the labor market and migration
🔈 [1:01:20] ON THE FUTURE OF WORK, RETIREMENT, AI AND GOVERNMENT POWER
Jobs that are ripe for automation
Universal basic income
Work longevity and a different “retirement”
Challenges of AI development
Lessons from the pandemic
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