George Dyson
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Oct 7, 2026
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Given the incredible power of these new technologies, shouldn't we be asking how we can best coexist with them? And if our own extinction is a likely or even possible outcome of our technological development, shouldn't we proceed with great caution? The dream of robotics is, first, that intelligent machines can do our work for us, allowing us lives of leisure, restoring us to Eden.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Yet in his history of such ideas, Darwin Among the Machines, George Dyson warns, In the game of life and evolution there are three players at the table, human beings, nature, and machines.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
I am firmly on the side of nature.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
But nature, I suspect, is on the side of the machines.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Given the incredible power of these new technologies, shouldn't we be asking how we can best coexist with them? And if our own extinction is a likely or even possible outcome of our technological development, shouldn't we proceed with great caution? The dream of robotics is first that intelligent machines can do our work for us, allowing us lives of leisure, restoring us to Eden.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Yet in his history of such ideas, Darwin Among the Machines, George Dyson warns, "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature, and machines.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
I am firmly on the side of nature.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
But nature, I suspect, is on the side of the machines." As we have seen, Moravec agrees, believing we may well not survive the encounter with the superior robot species.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Given the incredible power of these new technologies, shouldn't we be asking how we can best coexist with them? And if our own extinction is a likely or even possible outcome of our technological development, shouldn't we proceed with great caution? The dream of robotics is first that intelligent machines can do our work for us, allowing us lives of leisure, restoring us to Eden.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Yet in his history of such ideas, Darwin Among the Machines, George Dyson warns, "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table, human beings, nature, and machines.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
I am firmly on the side of nature, but nature, I suspect, is on the side of the machines." As we have seen, Moravec agrees, believing we may well not survive the encounter with the superior robot species.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
How soon could such an intelligent robot be built? The coming advances in computing power seem to make it possible by twenty thirty.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Given the incredible power of these new technologies, shouldn't we be asking how we can best coexist with them? And if our own extinction is a likely or even possible outcome of our technological development, shouldn't we proceed with great caution? The dream of robotics is first that intelligent machines can do our work for us, allowing us lives of leisure, restoring us to Eden.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Yet in his history of such ideas, Darwin Among the Machines, George Dyson warns, "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature, and machines.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
I am firmly on the side of nature, but nature, I suspect, is on the side of the machines." As we have seen, Moravec agrees, believing we may well not survive the encounter with the superior robot species.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
How soon could such an intelligent robot be built? The coming advances in computing power seem to make it possible by twenty thirty.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Given the incredible power of these new technologies, shouldn't we be asking how we can best coexist with them? And if our own extinction is a likely or even possible outcome of our technological development, shouldn't we proceed with great caution? The dream of robotics is first that intelligent machines can do our work for us, allowing us lives of leisure, restoring us to Eden.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Yet in his history of such ideas, Darwin Among the Machines, George Dyson warns, "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature, and machines.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
I am firmly on the side of nature.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
But nature, I suspect, is on the side of the machines." As we have seen, Moravec agrees, believing we may well not survive the encounter with the superior robot species.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Given the incredible power of these new technologies, shouldn't we be asking how we can best coexist with them? And if our own extinction is a likely or even possible outcome of our technological development, shouldn't we proceed with great caution? The dream of robotics is, first, that intelligent machines can do our work for us, allowing us lives of leisure, restoring us to Eden.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Yet in his history of such ideas, Darwin Among the Machines, George Dyson warns, In the game of life and evolution there are three players at the table, human beings, nature, and machines.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
I am firmly on the side of nature.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
But nature, I suspect, is on the side of the machines.
Dale SkranGUEST
And, uh, you'll see that some of the most, uh, I would say powerful minds of our time are actually in that meeting.
Dale SkranGUEST
Um, uh, For example, what's his name? George Dyson was in the meeting.
Dale SkranGUEST
He's Freeman Dyson's son.
Dale SkranGUEST
He's author of Turing's Cathedral.