25 January

One of the world’s leading astrophysicists describing his first encounter with AI in his work. It took it 20 minutes to understand something he’s spent a lifetime trying to master. As he says, he has to join this revolution now, it’s too remarkable not to. If you look around at our world today, there are wonderful innovations that could transform all of our lives. But what do we see? A continuous diet of abuse, disinformation, protest, obstruction etc. A culture of ‘but…’ - everything is ‘but’. Our first instinct is to block, not to make the remarkable happen, which is always hard work. We nitpick every bump in the road. All of it driven by an existing status quo that doesn’t want to give up its position, funding a sewer of fake debate and opposition to everything, mostly through social media, vacuuming up people whipped into continuous frenzies of anger over total fictions.