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Speaker 1: Pushkin. In the twenty first century, powerful technologies have been

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Speaker 1: appearing at a breathtaking pace, related to the Internet, artificial intelligence,

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Speaker 1: genetic engineering, and more. They could dramatically improve our world, or,

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Speaker 1: if we don't make wise choices, could leave us a

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Speaker 1: lot more solve. I Americ Lander. I'm a scientist who

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Speaker 1: works on ways to improve human health. I helped lead

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Speaker 1: the Human Genome Project, served as a science advisor to

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Speaker 1: the Obama White House, and today direct the Broad Institute

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Speaker 1: of MTN Harvard. This generation's choices will shape the future

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Speaker 1: as never before. The decisions ahead aren't just up to

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Speaker 1: scientists or politicians. We all of us are the stewards

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Speaker 1: of a brave new planet. In this podcast, we'll explore

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Speaker 1: hard questions. Should we alter the Earth's atmosphere to prevent

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Speaker 1: climate change? I can imagine conflicts that could arise when

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Speaker 1: nations start tinkering with the composition of the stratosphere. Should

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Speaker 1: we deploy a new genetic engineering technology in the wild

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Speaker 1: possibilities of a shining, marvelous future. We're just exploding all

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Speaker 1: around me like fireworks, And at the same time it

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Speaker 1: was literally in the same breath, I was also just

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Speaker 1: like Holly crap. If this isn't used properly, this could

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Speaker 1: be really damaging to our planet. As machines learn to

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Speaker 1: mimic human decision making, can we keep them from learning

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Speaker 1: human prejudices. When I learned that there was actually an

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Speaker 1: algorithm that judges used to help decide what to sentence people,

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Speaker 1: I was stunned. Can truth and democracy survive the impact

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Speaker 1: of deep fakes? Creditors would chime in and say, you

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Speaker 1: can absolutely make a deep fake sex video of your

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Speaker 1: ex with thirty pictures. I've done it with twenty. Here's

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Speaker 1: the things that keep me up at night. A video

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Speaker 1: of Donald Trump saying I've launched nuclear weapons against Iran.

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Speaker 1: And before anybody gets around to figuring out whether this

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Speaker 1: is real or not, we have global nucleu ountdown. And

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Speaker 1: is it time to turn war over to robots? I

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Speaker 1: know people who have killed civilians, and in all cases

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Speaker 1: where people made mistakes, it was just too much information.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for happening too fast. We'll talk to remarkable people.

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Speaker 1: A West African scientist fighting malaria, the co founder of LinkedIn,

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Speaker 1: A recent US Secretary of Defense, a civil rights lawyer

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Speaker 1: focused on artificial intelligence, one of the Navy's first female

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Speaker 1: fighter pilots, and many many more. To get the world

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Speaker 1: we want, we'll need to make wise choices. So fellows,

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Speaker 1: stewards of this Brave New Planet, join us as we

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Speaker 1: grapple with opportunities and challenges that are too big to

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Speaker 1: fit in a tweet, but that will shape our future.

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Speaker 1: Utopia or dystopia. It's up to us. Subscribe to Brave

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Speaker 1: New Planet on Apple Podcasts. Our first episodes drop October twelfth,