and we're back with lord martin rees martin many people who are actually working on artificial intelligence or self perfecting robots are telling me that it's just a matter of not even a century or 50 years we're talking about 10 years 15 years maximum 20 years when robots and machines will be doing most of our stuff and i'm thinking with the capable of doing it the question is do we want to do it we do very advanced things to protect. human race as a species but animals do that too but then what defines as humans are different things that we do like art that are we love where we know when we see the sun so you know. i'm just scared i'm thinking wake is that all when a day out with evolution are robots going to be. here. i think we've got to realize that. we do have distinctive human qualities and incidentally i think we can use. and off this intelligence provide a better life because a lot of people who have really mind numbing jobs working in warehouses or telephone cool centers and things like that and those jobs can be replaced by dignified well paid publicly funded jobs as people assis

martin rees a pleasure having me on our program so we had all of the questions you know. many of your colleagues are actually wording that technology may help human race advance and thrive and prosper but it can also. hinder many things and hurt humanity in many horrible ways so why is it because where evil or technology or we're just too dumb to be interested with it well there is a huge and growing gap between the way the world could be the way the world is we depend very much on technology indeed the population which has doubled in the last 15. couldn't all be said without the technology that we do cheesed longer life expectancy much better and cetera so all these things are due to technology and of course we have a connected world to the internet and technology is but of course what many of us is that these technologies if you will powerful. for not only can they provide more benefit but they open up new dangers. worried also about the downsides to take an example we know already that cyber attacks. kind of terrorism is can be very dangerous. biology biological advanc

rees speaks with. say about the possibility of living organisms there on future missions to the red planet. we could have a world that provides a decent life for all the 7 and a half 1000000000 people in it and at the moment we have a couple of 1000000000 in abject poverty and some people immensely wealthy and the fact that the richest 2000 people in the world have the resources to double the income of the bottom 1000000000 in the world and this is not happening is an ethical indictment i do think that by the end of a century there will be a few while the crazy adventurers who may be living away from the on mass and of course they would be ill adapted to that habitat and so they will be the people who will have the incentive. and the opportunity because their way through the regulators to enhance themselves and adapt themselves so i think if we imagine some species emerging which is different from who would be it will. those crazy people on mars we now know that most of the stars in the sky orbit shoul