What are the stories set to shape 2024? From the biggest election year in history, to how to control AI and even taxis that fly, The Economist offers its annual look at the world ahead. 00:00 - The World Ahead 2024 00:33 - Vital votes 03:34 - Taxis take off 07:10 - AI rules 10:19 - Industry cleans up? 13:48 - BRICS build Read more on The World Ahead 2024: https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead-2024 Read Tom Standage’s editor’s note on The World Ahead 2024: https://econ.st/3ROGB69 Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI Europe, a laggard in AI, seizes the lead in its regulation: https://econ.st/3GNsYOD Taiwan’s presidential election will be a three-way race after all: https://econ.st/41ukOnz China is watching closely who will be Taiwan’s next president: https://econ.st/4apC55B Decarbonisation of industrial activities is beginning: https://econ.st/41C8D8n The BRICS are expanding: https://econ.st/3RPV16j A global agency to oversee AI is a tall order: https://econ.st/3v7PgrP China approves the world’s first flying taxi: https://econ.st/3TwhxlW The world wants to regulate AI, but does not quite know how: https://econ.st/3GQB2hu Flying taxis could soon be a booming business: https://econ.st/41ulb1r The BRICS bloc is riven with tensions: https://econ.st/48aEorO A Finnish firm thinks it can cut industrial carbon emissions by a third: https://econ.st/3v6zjSB