How To Future - Proof Humanity
May 24, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 272
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Episode description
What does it mean to be human in the digital age? Writer and broadcaster Paul Mason explores how to defend our rights and freedoms against the forces that threaten our humanity.
As we move towards a future defined by artificial intelligence, we must make a choice: will we accept machine control of human beings, or resist it? The logic of machines and market forces threaten to reduce us to little more than consumers whose every action can be programmed, leading some to declare that ‘humanity is over’ – but there is another way.
This event was recorded live at The RSA on Thursday 23rd May 2019. Discover more about this event here: https://www.thersa.org/events/2019/05/how-to-future-proof-humanity
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