The former prime minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd is also a longtime student of China, with a unique vantage point to watch its power rise in the past few decades. He asks whether the growing ambition of China will inevitably lead to conflict with other major powers -- and suggests another narrative.

In a wide-ranging conversation about the evolution of AI, entrepreneur and investor Reid Hoffman and technologist Kevin Scott discuss how recent breakthroughs in AI have changed the way people and machines interact. Unlike the previous era where AI required knowledge of complex code, new technologies now enable direct interaction, letting people...