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for centuries, humans have been trying to study our planet to bring order to cast, to explain their own existence. we encounter a flood of information every day, but isn't making us any more intelligent. dealing with an increasingly digitalized world is overwhelming. it's getting harder and harder to distinguish between true and false. how do you find the truth? i'm really passionate about building technology that make people's lives better to see the future. it is absolutely crazy. we're already living in the science fiction novel fil a computer. i'm any additional data later and more. my chapter in the science fiction novel is about knowledge and who gets to control with the

over 3 centuries ago, the age of enlightenment began, bringing with the pro miss reese and human rights. today, these achievements are great. do we need a new enlightenment? the 21st century? the my resume might seem a bit unconventional. i've never had a 9 to 5 job. i've started 6 different university programs, built a race car founded companies and worked in silicon valley. i've also just created an ai model with my startup iris a i, it's a kind of super brand that will capture all the world scientific research, organize it logically and make it openly accessible. along with 20 other chuckner, it's across the 11 countries. who may, i mean with this machine we, we will have the potential to really connect all that knowledge and build new

knowledge in a way that human beings just won't be capable of. but i think the church, for example, if i want to know about the enlightenment, i can search for terms like philosophy or do go with one click. iris spits out hundreds of academic articles 300 years ago enlightenment philosopher to need you to route was over the trying to organize the knowledge of the world. instead of the internet, he used books and he spoke to people like surgeons mechanics and watch make its own and 1713. this really was the oldest son of a knife, making his father wanted him to become a priest. instead they needed a root, became the opposites. an atheist who had no room for gold in his will. team springs i think a went on to reshape how we saw around group with his maximum of this, the o 6 o p d, 17 volumes, 71. allison articles 20000000,

which was the largest publishing project of the 18th century, instead of following church history, old ruling dynasties, it'll fitting use to alphabetical order entries for science. shared the page with those of kaufman kings stood on equal footing with farm animals. working. people took the place a spoiled aristocratic. it was a reversal of power relations in book for almost every bit of progress that we have made in the last 250 years we have made on the back of the enlightenment. the idea that we can use science and reason to improve human wellbeing has worked. it's an actual fact. science as a quest for knowledge seems to me to be as an admirable among the numerous things that the human species escapes who controls knowledge. who decides what's true and what's false when we get taught

and what gets ignored, decal is 18th century collection of knowledge challenge the existing power relations. not that it was perfect. as a woman, i wouldn't have been allowed to contribute to the old stickler p d. the authors were all frenchman, they describe the world from their perspective. of course, there were things that god overlooked you know, so science image itself is not a must say somebody like you do, you know, would be uncomfortable. the encyclopedia is that same projects of the encyclopedia then becomes universalize, seeing that this is the knowledge that has to be split over the will and it has to be either the alpha and omega. they need to come to the magic the my journey begins and gone at the 1st sub saharan african country to gain

independence, freedom and justice and states on the black star field to memory. donna's 1st as a free state and 1957 has independence allowed the country to break free from foreign ways of thinking. what european encyclopedias named the only true knowledge indeed rose on see till 30 donna was to called the gold coast. a country comprising a variety of kingdoms and with gold dust was once found. that was old books. it did a rule. the coast was. all he could describe little is known about the interior. he wrote the 3 centuries later. every last corner of the continent seems to have been surveyed and measured people's mountains and rivers have been given names these days. anyone who wants to have their say about what we consider to be knowledge can do so on the internet. but hundreds of millions of africans still don't have internet access. while global

tech giants try to bring the continent online, it's clear that whoever supplies the infrastructure also exports their own world view. so between china and the west, the rates for digital dominants in africa has begun at the start up incubator, mass, young, tech entrepreneurs from all over africa are hard at work. they're not just interested in turning business ideas into profit. the goal is to use digital technology to create jobs and improve standards of living and to find homegrown solutions to applicant problems. second, angelo cannot a, came to gone it from nigeria to join the mess team. a. this is a, was for, it was small, it wasn't close. yes. 6, if you can fix, you'll see that yes. okay. the oldest people below 2 different companies, they're working on the startups and where they're from google,

from the political been equity. why? but swan, they're the just other on the coincidence from gun, the oliver training at mass is in high demand with 1500 applicants buying for just 60 places each applicant brings with them an idea for a tech startup, messed entrepreneurs seek to improve people's lives. just a weather app to help small farmers prevent crop failures or a micro credit system that works without an expensive smartphone. similar to my startup iris, it's often about making knowledge accessible pieces, ada and favors. app aims to improve sex education for women tucking and send you both moved to f. her up to start this company where it's similar for opportunity, equinox fencing or for. but we haven't gotten in on an avery and a team to a major and, and she's somebody is talking about where the, how my start of also has co founders from 4 different countries all over europe or

across group. yeah. some, some cultural challenges now and then that will be better. yeah. you have a demo. you can see yes. right? yes. there is a fire where we men can discuss on the topics. we have infectious and diseases. maternity. so you could be anonymous, share your question. and if it's posted, being good in color, just congress phones and other people that have gone through this issue can give me tips and also help women, you know, understand your body and display them a ties these clinicians or these areas that's of a society has placed the stigma what's the word position for content and as large in like the next 50 years? what's your take on that? oh, so in the next 2 decades, for instance,

the advertisements we have the highest population of youth. thank 50 is everyone's going to come is africa, cause we're going to be, you know, between new ideas and this, we deal with the new tech companies and this is going to be pretty happy and improved speed. the pan african ism championed by mast is spreading further and further. the 4 of the $55.00 african states are now working together as part of a newly created free trade zone. the largest in the world, supporters see it as an attempt to reverse the power in balance and prevent the cotton and from being exploited both a century before the french revolution, 0 was studying at the famous so phone university in paris. when his father, cutting more financially, he $8.00 for living, is to choose to any extra money writing simmons pamphlets even pornography.

meanwhile, he began to make a name for himself into basing circles. french enlargements, in cars would gather in cell on. so cafe is like the pro. com. ok you the series of discuss the latest global developments, both have the rules. so then the central is that all the rhetorically gifted denise salons of the 18th and early 19th century were far more important for the spreading and developing intellectual ideas than the university's work. digital role is said to have worked on the all 6 a p d and one of these tables. the cafe legend goes that he sent me the stove so he could burn on a bunch of pages before they fell into the hands of the census. who wrote his 1st major book and see course, the policy philosophic, published anonymously,

and 1746 strips, a catholic, france. his id is scandalous. he describes christian dogma as absurd and atrocious . one morning to the room was arrested right here and number 3, route and extra religious revival has something to do with the desire to hold on to what seemed to be eternal values comes like a comforting thing to hold on to something that is i'm changing. i've never understood why the fact that you get comfort from something mason believe it's true . stephen think i said, if you feel being pursued by a lot, you may get conflict from your implicit faith. that is a rabbit, but actually it's not a rabbit, is a law, it's going to be to face up to reality. the in west africa,

highly conservative. christianity has been spreading and recently decades. unlike an 18th century paris, it's not catholicism that dominates here, but a host of independent protestant churches. their preachers take a strong view of those who think differently. like the senior as these, for example, the self proclaimed buddha, which is often seen as a kind of devil incarnate, for her part as it is in fighting against religion itself. but above all, against patriarchy, when the coming that is going to the african continent, the basically said, we know your d, t. so you've got to false gods, you know, and this one god, which is a christian god. you know, i mean that applies to you something as well. if other mentioned that, you know, think support itself. you know, the right to go in pools, you know, because on other people, for god's sake, why the

but these so called false gods having died out. they live on in the form of thousands of years of spiritual knowledge waiting to be revived. they called the one the base $21.00 to $5.00 green bill. i wonder what data who would have thought about as these he believed in the revolutionary power of science for as these are the path of deliberation life and the traditions of bluetooth. ready the belief and invisible forces and in the

higher self. ready ready the . ready you've called yourself a modern day, which was a more like a modern and a priestess. but in a nice way, what does that mean than um, misunderstood the word which they take, which should be more like someone that a, you know, if you flush and fly at night and kill you and you know the scary. meanwhile, on the other side of the world, which is a healer, someone a priest that someone who can, who is advantage enough to work with spirits that can show them, you know, what is to come in the future. did you find the difference between how people and. 8 people in the us react to respond to your music. oh yeah, absolutely. and what ways i'm gunna black child. i'm the black sheep in the

industry. yeah. that's yeah. yeah, yeah. kind of as a christian nation. right. so imagine this girl comes out calling, resolved the room, music queen. they're like to bring that little girl here with all of the stuff we don't want. and i'm laughing, but it's ridiculous because it's our tradition. what we have here so powerful. if they knew they wouldn't be meeting the chest like guerrillas would do, is in bedded in our culture. you know, you can't run away from me. you can't. it's true that the light went off and attacked the established church and its hierarchies and its orthodoxies. but it preserved azurie deep sense of reverence, whatever you think created the world. it wasn't you

the season wants to show me the world because to boot do festival. i'm. so we take a road trip from gonna through tell, go to bin for her buddha isn't a religion, it's a way of life. it's based on knowledge that's been passed down from generation to generation. it's not written in any encyclopedia which also means it's in danger of dying yet completely. so we're here at the beach and we don't where hundreds of thousands of people just vanish and didn't just vanish. someone bought and sold, there was stolen. what kind of knowledge do you think was lost during the call? a nice ation. a lot of 1st morales see, the morals are an important thing. it's, it's, it's part of the culture,

it's imbedded in you. so the morals is the 1st thing in the tradition. the knowledge that the people that were taken away last and when you see people they, you know, daily routines and practices away from them. you basically killed them. i believe our futures and all past in the sense that in order to actually evolve and live and see our future, you have to know what happened in the past. in the dashboard, a lot of these people were taken away from spiritual homes. and whether they like it or not, it could be 50000 years. the beloved line remains the same. and so if you are suppose to be a priestess, when that time comes for the calling, you can't run from it. there is no such thing as shame. and i'll culture which colonization that came a lot of self. hey,

a lot of it. so it's something that's new and it's for like a virus. and that's where the problem always starts. the 1749 does arose, work cold letter on the blind for the use of those who can see you wanted to show how much, how census influenced including m morales. he eoc you. that for person who caught c fixed is the biggest crime of home who is a comp matter system, if another person dresses decently, or stands, make it in a marketplace. do 2 root concluded that morality was not universal, was dependent on else sensory perceptions. your knowledge comes from

bodily experience. it doesn't stem from reason, from the senses from feeling and touching things. ways even further on doing the pleasure, what's the most important principle of life. and he himself was no stranger to pleasure. whether in his erotic novels, the says he had own cellphones and cafe in series worth and helped along by good food and wine. i've been eating like a young who does a road once road and getting round as a bull. it's early morning on the london underground. if the computers here are having any kind of sensory experience that is probably thanks to their smartphones. indeed, all his time knowledge was controlled by king and clergy in our world, data brain supreme. pretty much anything about our world could be found via search engines, like google and personalized algorithms determine which parts of the world we all

got to see when internet became so popular. now have even more radical form of democracy. our own can participate through the internet on the inside of broadening our prospective internet internet actually and makes people even were closed some dock and a gun to or at the bottom you have data, an entire ocean of data. instead, here a bit smaller, you have information on comp, then comes knowledge from gum, and then at the very top and a very small amount of wisdom. but it is always about climbing up here and that'll be the open data. i information with the knowledge to which device. sometimes the path to wisdom begins with a simple search query. when i type in the default, the search engine gives me nearly 16000000 results and under

a 2nd. and the 1st hit the open encyclopedia wikipedia among the world's top 15 websites. it's the only one that's not for profit. and if i want to add to the accumulated knowledge about the to home, i can just like thousands of others before me. i can also join the discussion about where the truth lies. wikipedia, co founder jimmy wells helped create the largest democratic encyclopaedia in history, a data hole for the internet era. but unlike the honest to globally deep wikipedia has to contend with fake news conspiracy theories and lobbying a world where everyone can broadcast their own version of what's true. if you count the legal votes, i easily when you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal fi election from us in the face of polarization and political influence can we can survive as

a public repository and objective truth. it is a little sense that skepticism has to be the 1st step of finding the truth that that has to be the touch stone for, for everything to you to agree with us. uh, yeah, i do. you know, if you're in school today, and you definitely need to be fully trained on how to spot misinformation. uh, how to check different seemingly. what looks like a new site is a real new site or not. and if you don't have the ability to distinguish between the 2 and you are quite vulnerable and we do see quite a lot of people, this isn't just young people. live in a current world where and who has the power over knowledge? oh, i mean, i don't think anyone is a good thing. obviously there's bumps along the way. but in general,

that's one of the key features of the kind of data is there is no priestly guilds who controls the kind of knowledge. do you think this will continue? i mean, there, there are threats to this, this openness and freedom is off with are definitely threats. and we do have this risk as we see country after country around the world, claiming a global jurisdiction over their rules are on the internet, which leads to more blockages, a more fragmented internet. and it's really against that ideal, that enlightenment, ideal me, that we're all people on this planet trying to learn, find, to know, trying to understand the world. we been blocked in china for quite some time. and we're sometimes blocked in other countries. and usually it's about some specific information that's true that they don't like i remember my teachers always telling me do not usually give you the source that changed a bit. yeah. you know, i think it's, it's really about challenging that presumption, right, that ordinary people can participate in the knowledge process. and it's the idea

that you today right now have the right to come and engage with information to engage in that public dialogue about what is true. that's a pretty radical idea. even for this era, that knowledge is open, that everyone can join in the, the debate, the dialogue, the chewing, the, the search for truth. and that it isn't just the province of a handful of selected. and that idea is very much and enlightenment ideas and takes effort that takes thought it takes me that's fine. yep. student yeah. jimmy wells is optimistic. people leaves in the power of the community in a crowd based enlightenment. but just like the writers of the all signal page, the most wikipedia authors are white and mail and open dialogue can sometimes turn into a war between editors with authors, shutting each other out. so what happens if the ideal of democratic communal

knowledge fails because of the rationality of people shows and knowledge that they do all the mortality, they don't come on hand the hand on time? the majority of it is the wrong opinion. being chris, the noise of the i informed pop back. so i think that's my latest attack home on the quality and democracy. how much responsibility can the individual be trusted with? it's a fundamental philosophical question which determines the political system we gravitate towards. do we want universal participation, or should we be ruled by a single party or a moral and intellectual elite? in pre revolutionary friends, did a ro worked over through the ruling of lights. he spent 3 months in the state prison involved farm. when he was released to pledge never to produce blasphemous writings again, oil spice of life in prison, and 1751. the 1st part of the

o. c co pay date was published, containing due to rose rays, the shop satisfied against the authorities. the entry on cannibalism contained to cross reference to the eucharist. catholics consumed, the body and blood of christ during communion. doesn't that make them cannibals? the increase, the king rule in french, begins with information about the king vulture, which he describes as a bird about as fast as a turkey, and only off the woods. is there any information about the actual king? it's very strange because it arises. you know, we have no problem is it, we have no weapons. we have no way of really attacking power accepted language. because to i just need to say of dictatorships is freedom, then it's just a solid ac is for the free and free thinking people that they won't allow themselves to be dictated to form one less than what power this likes is people who

would accept the narrative the power is trying to impose the what power does like, is expanding control and surveillance over its citizens and collecting their information . the forensic architecture is a network of architects and journalists who investigate governments, dictators and intelligence agencies. the cover of human rights abuses and manipulate evidence based in london, they compile data, images and videos to reconstruct poison gas attacks or presence where people or torture. how does forensic architecture compile evidence that will hold up in court? is really architect ale. weitzman is the head of the collective some an a milwaukee specializes in environmental crimes. i've been investigating the legacy of the

table and he made himself quite unpopular with the church. and my guess is that, you know, towards the state and the police, you, you, you might not be the most popular people are or is, it is like, what's your take on? i kind of going against the powers there are at this point. so 2 thirds and truth is also in the battlefield press. now, when you break the states monopoly over knowledge and say what jobs? because we can know when you line this makes us very unpopular. obviously with the people that want to apply 5 and a sides of the american this, that the pentagon with which we have class them separate locations for fighting against the corporations. so for example, we had a case that we're looking at or the extraction on oil pollution in argentina. it's not always just the states, we have a lot of states, it's a, it's a big frontier. number

a big power effect from all those people. we always hear the same kind of critique we are. we are not state also rise to speak the truth, but it's exactly that kind of authority section. we don't seek so much of the work that you do is, is enabled by the internet by global access, by uploading pictures from smartphones, etc, etc. and how to get data into knowledge, the very principles of knowledge. another principle of science is a kind of culture of suspicion. and that culture of suspicion need to be substantiated with the methodology that is built in order to verify claim does the testimony that we heard from several people that experience violence, agree with that video which agrees with the weather report which agrees with a satellite image and i said that i took it to it in a more diverse animal,

different perspective. so the more we have confidence that the statements that we're making against states and corporations a precise do you see yourselves like walking in dinner, rose foot steps like do you see yourself as an lightness? we are leaving in kind of radical cost and light to ment. reality in which we find that the problem is suffering like ment of governing, transparently and justly is precisely the target to fire investigations. you see what's nice behind it is that the state wants to keep its monopoly over the violence and of a truth and windows to monopolies, unite over violence and over true. you have an unchecked political situation whenever monopolies on violence and truth coincide, democracy becomes impossible. in the 18th century,

this called absolutism almost 60 years old, did a row sit out on one last big journey, the colt and some of the cuts for the 2nd and some pieces, but so blue was considered to be one of the enlightened absolutism. just really wanted to convince will polish despotism, which would essentially mean a polishing has. so she told wants you to the room that he's great. principles were beautiful in books, but they made the bad practical policy. while you wrong, i shall. i'm feeling paper. she said, i am right on human skin which is sensitive to the slightest touch. it arose. idealism was no match for catherine's hob noticed real politics. he liked to return to paris dissolution. the

oxford university is one of the oldest in the world. it's students have included philosophers, john locke, and adam smith, physics genius, stephen hawking, internet inventor, tim berners lee, us president, bill clinton, people who went on to change the world the today, the university's future of humanity institute is tackling big picture questions about humanity. according to swedish philosopher, an institute director nick foster and we are on the costs of perhaps the greatest paradigm shift in human history. for the 1st time, we could be replaced by an even more intelligent entity in the form of an artificial super intelligence. together with stephen hawking deal on mosque and others, he's signed off on a warning to humanity. 23 principles for a research to benefit human kind, not harmony. so do you want them a coffee or tea? oh, good, thank you. thank you. all right. you think super intelligence,

artificial intelligence, do you think that is a threat to humanity and, and the problem is as well i, it's, uh, i think, a very unique moment in, in the history of live uh, when this happens, the creation of the general artificial intelligence machines that, that attain the same general purpose reasoning ability that contest, set documents apart from the rest of the animal kingdom, getting that transition right? so will be maybe the most important task in, in this century. you've been quoted saying if a super intelligence decides that it's, it's better to bite all humans off the planet for some reason or other it, it will succeed. you some people say that that scare mongering, that's just, you know, blowing out of course. and if you think about what, what gives us humans this unique position on the planet. but it's not that we have stronger muscles than other animals are sharper teeth. it's our brain

. so just slightly different the wire and so similarly for you introduce into the world something radically, cognitively, it's apparent to humans done it. my for i would be that the future would be shaped by the values and preferences, office superintendent stuff. and so had that they did need to make sure we aligned them with us so that they're kind of an extension of, of human, of august and of human intentions rather than disabled. and i'm going to stick force in this part of the enlightenment, schumann. reason is kind of the core of that and an arrow where we're artificial intelligence has more reason, more reasoning capability than humans. is there a need to kind of read a fine or look at what it means to be human? so right now, many people define their identity in terms of being useful to somebody or something. you're already the breadwinner, or you're the mother of eraser children or you or something. the body in

a while as the robots kind of everything better. yeah. might just must be interesting, you can do that would be useful. a lot of our values and identities, you know, we need to based them on something different than this kind of instrumentality. principle that shapes the current world. but the unenlightened ment of the 21st century has to help us give new meaning to our existence, to redefine what it means to be human, adding a 4th chapter to freud, 3 famous insults to humanity. first, copernicus showed us that we weren't the center of the universe. second, darwin degraded us by placing us in the animal kingdom showing that we the so called crown of creation or basically 8. thirdly, freud himself taught us that we are externally determined by our psychological drives, and soon we won't even be the most intelligent beings on the planet. what will

humans be then? what will give us meaning and support in a world where we're redundant, the back to the city of we definitely need where i'm at the world, the largest to do festival with senior as these up as part of the one of those who do kings has invited us personally, to be honest, i feel out of place here as a northern european tech nerd. something in the rebels against the idea of due to being an enlightened ritual. wouldn't beautiful have called all of this superstition? or do we hear pnc rituals like these from a heavily biased euro central point of view? self funded mentally opposed our science and spirituality from each other actually

spiritual basis of life. we're not just flesh walking around. there's very within and, you know, the one thing that a lot of people don't understand is no see off les, right? they don't see how far they're sierra and your energy. when we stop seeing color and start treating, you know, each other differently. will it be fun? but so then we have our here we're here at the temple of price on the mountain straight on the other side of the plaza is a church. how do you feel about kind of the 2 religions meeting in, in this way? every constant, it has a piece of the street, just virtual in the lighting every try. it's a puzzle and it's been distributed to all the different tribes, then we can figure it out until we bring that entire pause together. so until then we're all going to be like my puzzle is the whole thing and another. 7 minus at the

end of it all, we all have to come together. all of us, even the christians, saving them after the parade, we had to the court of the king of we to his majesty data bulk thing. as a student, he left the socialist spinning and moved to the former east germany. these days he lives, most deer, and berlin and rules his kingdom. from there for him, there is no doubt that a life without a higher meaning doesn't do justice to being human. so do you think who can can provide or be a form of the white man? said freshman we do have that house level? of course the theme of enlightenment is contained within it. and we've every breath we take to the world needs in light on it. often,

rough heart alone is not enough. for the mind alone is even worse and as though we need both of them together, i don't know where you've come from or how can you know where you're going? is that a business looking at gates? july 17, 84, to need to do a ro died without a gold. and without ceremony, once you go, it makes no difference whether you was somebody or no body erode. in the end, you don't need more than the holes in the ground and full spruce boards, but did road didn't die without hope. he left behind rising said he couldn't publish in his lifetime. he thought that would one day change the world so that our grandchildren would also need be more educated, but also happier and more virtuous. so that we don't die without finding a place among humanity. the

deed, as well as legacy lives on, in the joy of scientific knowledge and a steadfast, skepticism of authority to question those claiming to have a monopoly on truth based on dogma or alternative facts. be they from religion, large corporations, or demagogues. the enlightenment says, progresses in our hands, and that means so is, requests is up to us as you go through life and the world around do shifts and changes and you're trying to make sense of it. for me. writing is not active. understanding the mind. nobody has the absolute truth, not even this. i understand it so we must maintain a position of the acceptance and respectful those who think differently, believe different, the love different. we still have things we don't understand. and so, before delving came along, it required

a major leap of courage to say that we don't actually need a great big design in the sky to explain it. the remaining problems that we face, like the origin of the universe, the origin or life actually to will be solved and enlightenment for the 21st century has to confront the complexity of the world. without being satisfied by simple answers. encyclopedias can no longer be universal repositories of knowledge. knowledge has to keep evolving. just as we humans have to keep questioning ourselves. at the dawn of the age of super intelligence, we're realizing that we're more than just rational beings who define themselves solely in terms of utility. the for me, this is all part of the education of the future. we need to know where we've come from in order to better understand where this journey will take us.

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