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Halla Tómasdóttir

President of Iceland

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“for the first time perhaps that I remember at least in my lifetime the the power and speed of technology surpasses our ability to find wisdom and um and come together around how to govern this.”
An Historic AI Summit in Iceland, and a Conversation with its PresidentYour Undivided Attention, October 12, 2026 (said). Speaking as: Other. The president, in conversation with the hosts, on why AI is a new kind of governance problem.
“I know the word pause is a politically charged word right now. Um but I am a huge believer in pausing.”
An Historic AI Summit in Iceland, and a Conversation with its PresidentYour Undivided Attention, October 12, 2026 (said). Speaking as: Other. The president on pausing frontier AI development, then linking it to restraint in personal life and in spiritual traditions.
“I think we need to try to grow the power of the middle powers and the small powers and make them bigger powers by coming together.”
An Historic AI Summit in Iceland, and a Conversation with its PresidentYour Undivided Attention, October 12, 2026 (said). Speaking as: Other. One part of a four-point plan the president calls not fully baked, alongside pressure from young people and dialogue with the biggest computing powers.

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  1. PodcastYour Undivided AttentionSpeaks

    An Historic AI Summit in Iceland, and a Conversation with its President

    In a 45-minute episode recorded on 12 October, Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin describe a dialogue on AI held in Reykjavik on the 40th anniversary of the Reagan-Gorbachev summit, then interview Iceland's president, who argues for pausing and for middle powers to organise.