at the university of edinburgh center for tech. no morrow, futures. and in los angeles, ramesh trent of austin, a professor at the university of california and founder of the digital cultures lab research group. gary, let's go to you 1st. you signed this open letter tell us why her let me start with that. i don't actually expected to be a moratorium, but i think the situation is urgent. and i think the letter has gotten this on everybody's agenda and that's terrific. i don't actually think machines are too smart, i think you're too and reliable, non trustworthy. they make up the hall the time. somebody just committed suicide after the dialogue with the child. but i think there are all kinds of dangers here . maybe they'll be too smart eventually. i don't think they are now, but they're already being widely adopted. there's almost no regulation in the corporate are fairly irresponsible about it, might you? and so this is a perfect storm. and so even though i don't expect a pause, per se, i think that we really need to look at what we

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of where it all began. you studied french and russian at heriot—watt university in edinburgh, and then in yourfinal year youved a scott trust bursary from the guardian to study journalism. and i think you were quite clear at that point that you wanted to be a columnist. why? because i had been very politically involved and my entry into writing was partly because i'd studied languages and studied to be an interpreter and i like to manipulate words, but it was also because i had been very involved politically, almost precociously, and that i thought i had things to say. and what i didn't realise at the time was the degree to which reporting, running out, talking to people, finding out, all of that, is the nuts and bolts of everything, including column writing. so as someone who hadn't done an awful lot ofjournalism and heriot—watt didn't have a student newspaper for the first couple of years i was there, my sense of being a journalist was about writing my thoughts and, of course, because i was 21 or 22 i also assumed that everybody would be interested in my thoughts, which, when i look back at it now is a li

of iraq against the fighters in the iran-iraq war. where were you? i was in edinburgh , scotland, when i was an assistant professor at the medical school edinburgh university in scotland, scotland, we had a very peaceful and comfortable life and my wife, who had finished her pediatric dentistry course there , was also working there. i have to go and help, now that's why when i decided to come back, i had difficult years with majnoon chemical, not only in mashhad, but in the whole country, that is, with me, for the love of the people , i was in need of chemical training around the clock, at least 12 hours, 9 to 14 hours. the work of chemical treatment of teaching students of tehran, shiraz isfahan , tabriz, there was no medical toxicologist in iran at the time . think for yourself, i said to see you, thinking about this emotional issue , my country is in the fire of war, i have to go and help you, mr. doctor, during the war, you were in scotland with your family, child after child, and in terms of income, facilities and everything , you had a very comfortable life. i want to say that living a luxurious life is a luxury i was comfortable and introduced, and