Speaker 1: Pushkin. In the twenty first century, powerful technologies have been
Speaker 1: appearing at a breathtaking pace, related to the Internet, artificial intelligence,
Speaker 1: genetic engineering, and more. They could dramatically improve our world, or,
Speaker 1: if we don't make wise choices, could leave us a
Speaker 1: lot more solve. I Americ Lander. I'm a scientist who
Speaker 1: works on ways to improve human health. I helped lead
Speaker 1: the Human Genome Project, served as a science advisor to
Speaker 1: the Obama White House, and today direct the Broad Institute
Speaker 1: of MTN Harvard. This generation's choices will shape the future
Speaker 1: as never before. The decisions ahead aren't just up to
Speaker 1: scientists or politicians. We all of us are the stewards
Speaker 1: of a brave new planet. In this podcast, we'll explore
Speaker 1: hard questions. Should we alter the Earth's atmosphere to prevent
Speaker 1: climate change? I can imagine conflicts that could arise when
Speaker 1: nations start tinkering with the composition of the stratosphere. Should
Speaker 1: we deploy a new genetic engineering technology in the wild
Speaker 1: possibilities of a shining, marvelous future. We're just exploding all
Speaker 1: around me like fireworks, And at the same time it
Speaker 1: was literally in the same breath, I was also just
Speaker 1: like Holly crap. If this isn't used properly, this could
Speaker 1: be really damaging to our planet. As machines learn to
Speaker 1: mimic human decision making, can we keep them from learning
Speaker 1: human prejudices. When I learned that there was actually an
Speaker 1: algorithm that judges used to help decide what to sentence people,
Speaker 1: I was stunned. Can truth and democracy survive the impact
Speaker 1: of deep fakes? Creditors would chime in and say, you
Speaker 1: can absolutely make a deep fake sex video of your
Speaker 1: ex with thirty pictures. I've done it with twenty. Here's
Speaker 1: the things that keep me up at night. A video
Speaker 1: of Donald Trump saying I've launched nuclear weapons against Iran.
Speaker 1: And before anybody gets around to figuring out whether this
Speaker 1: is real or not, we have global nucleu ountdown. And
Speaker 1: is it time to turn war over to robots? I
Speaker 1: know people who have killed civilians, and in all cases
Speaker 1: where people made mistakes, it was just too much information.
Speaker 1: Thanks for happening too fast. We'll talk to remarkable people.
Speaker 1: A West African scientist fighting malaria, the co founder of LinkedIn,
Speaker 1: A recent US Secretary of Defense, a civil rights lawyer
Speaker 1: focused on artificial intelligence, one of the Navy's first female
Speaker 1: fighter pilots, and many many more. To get the world
Speaker 1: we want, we'll need to make wise choices. So fellows,
Speaker 1: stewards of this Brave New Planet, join us as we
Speaker 1: grapple with opportunities and challenges that are too big to
Speaker 1: fit in a tweet, but that will shape our future.
Speaker 1: Utopia or dystopia. It's up to us. Subscribe to Brave
Speaker 1: New Planet on Apple Podcasts. Our first episodes drop October twelfth,