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[000:00:00;00] the, for centuries, humans have been trying to study our planet, to bring order to chaos, 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 makes people's lives better. easy. the future, it is absolutely crazy. we're already living in the science fiction novels the 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 the over 3 centuries ago, the age of enlightenment began, bringing with the progress, reason 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 a i model with my startup iris a i, it's a kind of super brain 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 a row was over the trying to organize the knowledge of the world. instead of the internet, he used books and he spoke to people like searching mechanics and watch make it phone and 1713. this really was the oldest son of a knife, making his father wanted him to become a priest. instead, the need is a root became the opposite of an atheist who had no room for gold and his will team springs think of went on to reshape how we saw around the world with his maximum of

this view on 6, the 17 volumes, 71000 articles 20000000 woods was the largest publishing project of the 18th century, instead of following church history. home owning dentist is it will fitting you stick to alphabetical order entry. the science trade, the page with those of crossman kings, stood on equal footing with farm animals working people took the place a spoiled aristocratic. it was the 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 effect size as a quest for knowledge seems to me to be as an admirable and among the numerous

things that the human species of 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, so i assume it's in itself is not the most that somebody like you do, you know, would be uncomfortable. the encyclopedia is that same projects of the encyclopedia that becomes gave us allies, seeing that this is the knowledge that has to be split over the world. 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 gas bill to commemorate donna's birth 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 arose on seek to city 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 applicants 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 race for digital dominance 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 home grown solutions to african problems. angelo canada came to gone up from nigeria to join the math team. this is a was fit. what was it? one quote was yes,

6 if you can fix it. as the oldest people belong to different companies, they are working on the startups and where they're from google, from the political been equity. why? but swan, they're just other on the continuum from uganda. oliver training at mass is in high demand with 1500 applicants fine 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. so with tim of for up to the next 15 or 4,

but we haven't gotten yet. and then avery and the team. so a major and, and she's some ideas. how does that work 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 a guide in colleges congress funds and other people that have gone through this issue can give me tips and also help women, you know, understand the body and disabilities. these clinicians, or these areas that's of a society has please to speak loudly. what's the word emission uh for confident as large in like the next 50 years.

what's your take on that? oh, so in the next to the kids, for instance, the advertisements who have the highest population of youth. thank 50 is everyone's going to come as africa cause we're going to be innovative, new ideas, and this we deal with the new tech companies and this is going to be pretty happy. an improved space. the pan african ism championed by mass just spreading further and further before the 55 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 half a century before the french revolution,

0 was studying at the famous cellphone university in paris. when his father, cutting off financially he eat dosher, living as a choose to any extra money writing, simmons pamphlets even cannot graphy. meanwhile, he began to make a name for himself into basing circles function, licensing cars. would catherine's 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. then the universities were digital ro is said to have loved only all secret p d. and one of these tables the cafe legend goes to the sent me the stove, so he could burn on

a bunch of pages before they fell into the hands of the senses. who wrote his 1st major book and see put the policy philosophic, published anonymously, and 1746, restricted catholic, france. his ideas scandalous. he describes christian dogma as absurd and atrocious one morning, due to 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. and stephen think, i said, if you feel being pursued by a lot, you may get conflict from your implicit faith that it's a rabbit. but actually it's nothing rapid, it's a lot, 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. there preachers take a strong view of those who think differently like the senior se, so, for example, the self proclaimed router, which is often seen as a kind of devil incarnate, for her part as ease it isn't fighting against religion itself. but above all, against patriarchy. when they're coming on the screen to the african continent, the basically said we know your d t, c, o gods, a false god, you know, and this one god which is a christian god. you know, i mean that applies to you. something as well as other mentioned that, you know,

thinks upon itself, you know, the right to go in pools, you know, because one of the people forgot sync. why the but the so called false god haven't 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 to 5 green. i wonder what data who would have thought about his visa? he believed in the revolutionary power of science for as these are the past

deliberation life and the traditions of buddha. ready the belief and invisible forces and in the higher self. ready ready the . ready you called yourself a modern day, which was a more like a modern day priestess. but in a nice way, what does that mean than um, misunderstood nowhere in 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, the 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 in. 8 and people in the us react to respond to your music. oh yeah, absolutely. and what ways i'm gonna black child, i'm the black sheep in the industry. yeah, that's yeah, yeah, yeah. then as a christian nation. right. so imagine this girl comes out calling, resolved the routing music queen of their life to bring the little girl here with all 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, isn't that it? and i'll culture. you know, you can't run away from me. you can't. it's true that the enlightenment often attacked the established church and its hierarchies. and it's orthodoxies, but it preserved azurie deep sense of reverence,

whatever you think created the world. it wasn't even the season wants to show me the world's biggest booty festival was. so we take a road trip from ghana through to 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 as completely so we're here at the beach and we don't where hundreds of thousands of people just vanish. they didn't just vanish somewhere and bought and sold. there was stolen. what kind of knowledge do you think was lost during the colonization?

a lot of 1st morales, the morals are an important thing. it's, it's, it's part of the culture, it's embedded 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 or you basically killed them. i believe our futures and i'll pass 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 liked 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 in our 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 morales, the eoc you that for person who caught c fixed is the biggest crime of home who is a comp matter system, if another person presses decently or stands, make it in a marketplace. do 2 root concluded that morality was not universal. was dependent

on how sensory perception predicting road knowledge comes from bodily experience. it doesn't stand from reason, but from the census, from feeling and touching things. 2 ways even further on doing the pleasure, what's the most important principle of life? and he himself was no stranger to place that was there in his a rustic novels. the says he had own cellphones and cafe in the series worth and helped along by good food and wine. i've been eating like a young who does a road once road, getting round as a bull. it's early morning on the london underground. if the commuters here are having any kind of sensory experience, then it's probably thanks to their smartphones. indeed are goals 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 the broadening our perspective, internet and internet actually makes people even were closed some dock and a gun to or at the bottom you have data, an entire ocean of data in then here a bit smaller. you have information on comp, then comes knowledge from down, and then at the very top, a very small amount of wisdom as well. there's always about climbing up here and that'll be the open data i information to 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 default, 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 by easily when you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal,

feel action from us in the face of polarization and political influence. can we could pdf 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. the, the, the current oral were and who has the power over knowledge?

oh, i mean, i don't think you need to is a good thing. obviously there's bumps along the way. but in general, that's one of the key features of the current ages. there is no priestly guild who controls the canon 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've 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, remember why teachers always telling me do not usually give you the source that changed the transfer 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 from 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 except for it takes thought it takes me that's fine. yep. student jimmy wells is optimistic. people leaves in the power of the community in a crowd based enlightenment. but just like the writers that they all signal pay, 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 that the ideal of democratic, communal knowledge fails because of the rationality of people. truth and knowledge that they do all the mortality they don't come have had the and on time. the majority of it is their own opinions. they increased the noise of the i informed public. so i think that's my latest attack on, 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 the work to over throws a ruling a late. he spent 3 months in

a state prison involved farm. when he was released to pledge never to produce plus from this writings again, oil spice of life in prison. at $1751.00, the 1st part of the o. c co pay the was published, containing due to rose rings, 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 armies, so it's we have no with this. we have no way of really attacking impala accepted language. close to either the display 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 dislikes 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 that cover up to 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 demo and he made himself quite and popular 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 battle field press. now, when you break the state 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 bit depends on as with which we have clashed on several occasions, we're fighting against the corporations. so for example, we had

a case that we're looking at oil 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 of empowers for 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 see 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 of it, principles 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 to imagine a tenant i to a, to it in a more diverse animal, a different perspective. so the more we have confident that the statements that we're making against states and corporations a precise do you see yourselves like walking in dinner, rose footsteps like you see yourself as and lightness. we are leaving in kind of radical post and light them into 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 of, of violence in all the truth in windows to monopolies unite over violence and over

truth. you have an unchecked political situation whenever monopolies on violence and truth coincide, democracy becomes impossible. in the 18th century, this was called absolutism. almost 60 years old did a ro sit house on one last big journey, the cold and sunny the customer, the 2nd in saint petersburg, who was considered to be one of the enlightened absolutism. this ro wanted to convince the will polish despotism, which would essentially mean abolishing himself. she told him once you to the rogue, that his great principles were beautiful in books, but they made for 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 knows real politics. he like 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 can be replaced by an even more intelligent entity in the form of an artificial super intelligence. together with stephen hawking, milan mosque and others, he's signed off on a warning to humanity. 23 principles for a research to benefit human kind. not harmon. so do you want them

a coffee or tay? i'm good. thank you. thank you. all right. you think super intelligence, artificial intelligence, do you think that is a threat to humanity? and the problem is as well i, it's, uh, i think a very unique moment in, in the history of life. when this happens, the creation of the general artificial intelligence machines that, that attain the same general purpose reasoning ability, that current decides i'll see, months apart from the rest of the animal kingdom getting that's 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 will succeed. and 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 or are sharper teeth. it's our brain, so i'm just slightly different the wire. and so similarly, if we introduce into the world something radically, cognitively, it's apparent to human, it's done by 4, i'll be that official and be shaped by the values and preferences, office superintendent stuff and so has done, they need to make sure we align them with us so that they're kind of an extension of, of human values and document intentions rather than disabled. and i'm gonna stick force as 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 well. robots, kind of everything better. yeah, it might just must be interesting. you can do that would be useful. a lot of our values and identities, you know, we need to base 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 fact that 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 the food 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 who to being an enlightened ritual. wouldn't depo 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 all flesh, right? they don't see how far their caesar era and your energy. when we stop seeing color and start treating, you know, each other differently will be fine. but so then we have our here we're here at the temple of price on phenomena 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 and 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 person, i know mine is 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 b. as a student, he left the socialist spinning and moved to the former east germany. these days he lives most severe 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 inviting me to have that house level?

of course, the theme of enlightenment is contained within as we've every breath we take to the world needs in light on it and press the 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. what. how can you know where you're going? is that looking at gates in july, 1784, to need to do a ro died without a gold. and without ceremony, once you go on, it makes no difference whether you were somebody or nobody who wrote. in the end, you gave me more than a hole in the ground and full spruce boards, but did row didn't die without hope. he left behind risings that 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 our 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, that means so is rigorous. it's 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 newmont, nobody has the absolute truth, not even this i understand. 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 carriage 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 of life actually 2, 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,

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