For centuries, humans have been trying to study our planet to bring order to pay us to explain their own existence. We encounter a flood of information every day but isnt making us any more intelligent. Dealing with an increasingly digitalized world is overwhelming. Its getting harder and harder to distinguish between true and false. How do you find the truth . Im really passionate about Building Technology that makes peoples lives better. Easy. The future, it is absolutely crazy. Were already living in the Science Fiction novels the computer. Im 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. Doing the new enlightenment, the 21st century, the my resume might seem a bit unconventional. Ive never had a 9 to 5 job. Ive started 6 Different University programs, built a race car founded companies and worked in silicon valley. Ive also just created an a i model with my startup iris a i, its a kind of super brand that will capture all the World Scientific research, organize it logically and make it openly accessible. Along with 20 other tech here, its across the 11 countries. Who may, i mean with this machine, we will have the potential to really connect all that knowledge and build new knowledge in a way that human beings just wont 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 philosophy. I do need you to row was already trying to organize the knowledge of the world. Instead of the internet, use 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. An atheist who had no room for gold and his will team springs think he went on to reshape how we saw around the world with his maximum of with the o. 6 p. D. The 17 volumes. 71000 articles. 20000000 woods was the largest publishing project of the 18th century, instead of following Church History old ruling dynasties. It will fit in new strict alphabetical order entries but science trade. The page with those of crossman kings, stood on equal footing with farm animals. Working people took the place of spoiled aristocrats. 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. Its 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 whats true and whats false when we get taught and what gets ignored, disclose 18th century collection of knowledge, challenge the existing power relations. Not that it was perfect. As a woman, i wouldnt have been allowed to contribute to the own stickler pd. The authors were all frenchman. They describe the world from their perspective. Of course, there were things that god overlooked. You know, so science, the needs in itself is not the most that somebody like you do, you know, would be uncomfortable. The encyclopedia is that same project of the encyclopedia that becomes universalize, seeing that this is the knowledge that has to be spent over the world. And it has to be either the alpha and omega. They need to come to the magic the and my journey begins and gone at the 1st sub saharan african country to gain independence, freedom and justice and states on the black starkey fields to commemorate donnas birth as a free state and 1957 past independence allowed the country to break free from foreign ways of thinking, what european encyclopedias named the only true knowledge. Indeed rose on seek to 30 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 peoples 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 dont have internet access. While global tech giants try to bring the continent online, its 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. Theyre 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 best team. This is a wolf. It was the wall. It wasnt close. Yes, 6, if you can fix it. Yeah. Ok. The oldest people belong to different companies. They are working on the startups and where theyre from kugal, from the political been equity. Why . But one, theyre 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 peoples 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, its often about making knowledge accessible pieces, ada and favors. App aims to improve Sex Education for women. And you both move to f her up to start this company where its similar for up to the next 15 or 4, but we havent gotten yet. And then avery and the team. So a major and, and shes somebody is talking about where 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 very 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 and you must share your question. And if its posted, being good in color, Just Congress punch of the people that have gone through this issue can give me tips and also help women, you know, understand your body and disabilities. These conditions, or these areas thats of a society has please the stigma. Whats the word mission for content and as large in like the next 50 years . Whats your take on that . Oh, so in the next to the kids, for instance, the advertisements we have the highest population of youth. Thank 50 is everyones going to come is africa, cause were going to be innovative, new ideas. And this we deal with the new Tech Companies and this is going to be pretty happy and improved speed. The pan african ism championed by mast is spreading further and further. The 4 of the 55. 00 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 a century before the french revolution. 0 was studying at the famous silvan university in paris. When his father cutting off financially he ate dr. Living as a choose to any extra money writing sermons pamphlets even cannot graphy. Meanwhile, he began to make a name for himself into basing circles function, licensing cars would gather in, sell on. So cafe is like the pro come to argue the theories and discuss the latest global developments. Both have the russo and in the central federal. The rhetorically gifted denise. The salons of the a teens and early 19th century were far more important for the spreading and developing intellectual ideas than the universitys work. Digital role is said to have worked on the all 6 a p d and one of these tables. The cafe legend goes to the sent me the stove, so he could burn on 4 pages before they fell into the hands of the census. Who wrote his 1st major book and see coach the policy philosophy, published anonymously and 1746, stripping catholic, france his ideas scandalous. He describes christian dogma as absurd and atrocious. One morning the 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 im changing. Ive never understood why the fact that you get comfort from something mason believe its true, steven. Think i said, if you feel being pursued by a lot, you may get conflict from your implicit faith that its a rabbit. But actually its not a rabbit, is a law, its 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, its 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 as these for example, the self proclaimed router, which is often seen as a kind of devil incarnate, for her part as isa isnt fighting against religion itself. But above all, against patriarchy, when theyre coming on the skin to the african continent. The basically said, we know your d t, c o got to false god, you know, and this one got, which is a christian god, you know, i mean that applies to you something as well as other mentioned that, you know, think support 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 havent died out. They live on in the form of thousands of years of spiritual knowledge waiting to be revived. They called the one we base 21 to 5 green i wonder what data who would have thought about as visa. He believed in the revolutionary power of science for as these the past deliberation lies. And the traditions of buddha. Ready the belief and invisible forces and in the higher self. Ready ready the. Ready youve called your cell a modern day, which was a more like a modern and a priestess to put 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, 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 that 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 going on and people in the us react and respond to your music . Oh yeah, absolutely. And what ways im gonna black child. Im the black sheep in the industry. Yeah. Thats yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Then as a christian nation, right. So imagine this girl comes out calling and resolve the reading music queen. Theyre like to bring the little girl here with all of the stuff we dont want. And im laughing, but its ridiculous because its our tradition. What we have here, so powerful if they knew they wouldnt be meeting the chest like guerrillas would do, is in bedded in our culture. You know, you cant run away from it. You cant. Its true that the light went off and attacked the established church and its hierarchies and its orthodoxies. But it preserved a very deep sense of reverence. Whatever you think created the world. It wasnt you the season wants to show me the worlds biggest boo festival. I was so we take a road trip from gonna through to go to bin for her. Buddha isnt a religion, its a way of life. Its based on knowledge thats been passed down from generation to generation. Its not written in any encyclopedia which also means its in danger of dying as completely so were here at the beach and we dont where hundreds of thousands of people just vanish and didnt 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. Its. Its part of the culture, its 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. You basically killed them. I believe our futures and not passed 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 as you are supposed to be a priestess, when that time comes for the calling, you cant run from it. There is no such thing as shame in our culture. Which cool, nice ation. That came a lot of self. Hey, a lot of it. So its something thats new and its for like a virus and thats 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 m morales, the eoc, your dad for person who caught c. Fixed is the biggest crime of home who is a comp matter system, if another person dresses decently, or stands, make it in a marketplace. Do 2 root concluded morales, he was not universal, was dependent on else sensory perception. Knowledge comes from bodily experience. It doesnt stem from reason, from the sensor from feeling and touching things you ways even further on doing the pleasure, whats the most important principle of life. And he himself was no stranger to pleasure. Whether in his erotic novels, the says he had own cellphones and cafe in series worth and helped along by good food and wine. Ive been eating like a young who does a road once road. Im getting round as a bull. Its Early Morning on the london underground. If the commuters here are having any kind of sensory experience that is probably thanks to their smartphones. Indeed all his 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. But instead of broadening our perspective internet internet, it actually makes people even were closed, some dock and a gun to or at the bottom you have data, an entire ocean of data. Instead here a bit smaller, you have information on comp, then comes knowledge from gum, and then at the very top and a very small amount of wisdom or the. So its about climbing up here and thatd be the open data. I information to knowledge, to wisdom, to vice. Sometimes the path to wisdom begins with a simple search query. When i type in the jungle, the Search Engine gives me nearly 16000000 results and under a 2nd. And the 1st hit the open encyclopedia wikipedia among the worlds top 15 websites. Its the only one thats 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 whole 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 whats true. If you count the legal votes 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 can pdf survive as a public repository of 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 and you to agree with us. Uh, yeah, i do. You know, if youre in school today, 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 dont have the ability to distinguish between the 2 and you are quite vulnerable and we do see quite a lot of people, this isnt just young people. The, the, the current oral were and who has the power over knowledge . Oh, i mean, i dont think anyone is a good thing. Obviously theres bumps along the way. But in general, thats one of the key features of the current ages. There is no priestly gills who controls the canon of knowledge. Do you think this will continue . I mean, there, there are threats to this, this openness and freedom as well. Well, there 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 its really against that ideal, that enlightenment, ideal me, that were all people on this planet trying to learn, trying to know, trying to understand the world weve been blocked in china for quite some time. And were sometimes blocked in other countries. And usually its about some specific information thats true that they dont like, remember why teachers always telling me do not use the computer. The source changed the transfer bit. Yeah. You know, i think its, its really about challenging that presumption, right . That ordinary people can participate in the knowledge process. And 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. Thats a pretty radical idea. Even for this era that knowledge is open so that everyone can join in the, the debate, the dialogue, the chewing, the, the search for truth. And that it isnt just the province of a handful of selective meetings. And that idea is very much, i mean, like mentor index effort that takes thought it takes. Its fun. Yeah. 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 also 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 if the ideal of democratic communal knowledge fails because of the rationality . If people shows and knowledge that they do, all the mortality they dont come has had the hand on time. The majority of it is their own opinion. Being chris, the noise of the i informed public. So i think thats my latest attack home on the quality and democracy. How much responsibility can the individual be trusted with . Its 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 france, due to ro, worked 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 plots from his writings again, oil spice of life in prison. Of 1751. The 1st part of the o. C co pay date was published, containing due to a rose race, a 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. Doesnt 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 . Its very strange because it arises. You know, we have no problem is it, we have no width of this, we have no way of really attacking power except for the language. Because to i just need to be of dictate to ship this freedom. Then this is the song, c is full of free and free thinking people this, they werent allowed themselves to be dictated to form one less than. What power does likes is people who would accept the narrative. The power is trying to impose the what power does like, is expanding control and surveillance over the citizens and collecting their information. The forensic architecture as 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 summit. A milwaukee specializes in environmental crimes. Ive been investigating the legacy of the table. 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, whats your take on that kind of going against the powers there are at this point, so 2 thirds and truth is also in the battlefield right now. When you break the states monopoly over knowledge and say what child . Because we can know when you line this makes us very unpopular, obviously with the people that want to apply 5 and a side of the american this, the pentagon with which we have class them separate locations for fighting against the corporations. So for example, we had a case that were looking at all extraction on Oil Pollution in argentina. Its not always just the states, we have a lot of states, its a, its a big frontier. Number a big power effect from all those people. We always hear the same kind of critique we are, we are not state also rise to speak the truth, but its exactly that kind of authority section. We dont 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 principle of knowledge of it principle of science is a kind of culture of suspicion. And that culture of suspicion need to be substantiated with a methodology that is built in order to verify, claim, dust. 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. I said that i took it to it in a more diverse animal, different perspective. So the more we have confidence that the statements that were making against states and corporations a precise do you see yourselves like walking in dinner, rose foot steps like you see yourself as enlightened this we are leaving in kind of radical post and like to ment, 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 whats nice behind it is that the state wants to keep its monopoly over violence and of a truth in windows to monopolies unite over violence. And over true, you have an uncheck political situation. Whenever monopolies on violence and truth coincide, democracy becomes impossible. In the 18th century, this called absolutism almost 60 years old, did a row sit house on one last big journey, the cold and sunny, the cuts for the 2nd and some pieces, but the rule was considered to be one of the enlightened absolutism. This ro wanted to convince to accomplish despotism, which would essentially mean a polishing has. So she told wants you to the room that hes great principles were beautiful in books, but they made for bad practical policy. While you wrong, i shall. Im feeling paper. She said, i am right on human skin which is sensitive to the slightest touch. It arose. Idealism was not much for catherines hobb nose, real politics. He liked to return to paris disillusioned. The Oxford University is one of the oldest in the world. Its 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 universities future of Humanity Institute is tackling the 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 could be replaced by an even more intelligent entity in the form of an artificial super intelligence. Together with Stephen Hawking deal on mosque and others, hes signed off on a warning to humanity. 23 principles for a research to benefit human kind. Not harmony. So do you want them a coffee or tea . Sound good, thank you. Thank you. All right. You think super intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, do you think that is a threat to humanity . And a problem is as well i, its, uh, i think, a very unique moment in, in the history of live uh, when this happens, the creation of a general Artificial Intelligence machines that, that attain the same general purpose reasoning ability that contests such saucy months apart from the rest of the Animal Kingdom, guessing that the transition right will be maybe the most important task in, in this century, youve been quoted saying if a super intelligence decides that its, its better to bite all humans off the planet for some reason or other it, it will succeed you some people say that that scare mongering, thats just, you know, blowing out of course. And if you think about what, what gives us humans this unique position on the planet. Um, its not that we have stronger muscles than other animals are sharper teeth. Its our brand, so just slightly different the wire and so similarly for you introduce into the world something radically cognitively as a parent to human, its done. It might well be that the future would be shaped by the values and preferences, Office Superintendent stuff. And so has that, they need to make sure we align them with us so that theyre kind of an extension of, of human vargas and document intentions rather than disabled. And im going to stick for us a part of the enlightenment schumann. Reason is kind of the core of that and an arrow where were 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. Youre already the breadwinner, or youre the mother of eraser children or you or something. The body in the robots kind of everything better. Yeah. 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 werent 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 wont 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 were redundant, the back to the city of we definitely need where im at the world, the largest to do festival with senior as these up as part of the one of those who do 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 due to being an enlightened ritual. Wouldnt beautiful 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. Were not just flesh walking around. Theres very within and, you know, the one thing that a lot of people dont understand is no see off les, right . They dont see all their sierra and your energy. When we stop seeing color and start treating, you know, each other differently wont be fine. But so then weve our here were here at the temple of price on the non 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 to spiritual enlightenment every try. Its a puzzle and its been distributed through all the different tribes that we can figure it out until we bring that entire proposal together. So until then were all going to be like, my puzzle is the whole thing and another. 7 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 book. As a student, he left the socialist spinning and moved to the former east germany. These days he lives, most deer, and berlin and rules his kingdom. From there for him, theres no doubt that a life without a higher meaning doesnt do justice to being human. Thank you. So do things. Who do can, can provide or be a form of inviting me says they have that house level. Of course the theme of enlightenment is contained within it. And weve, every breath we take to the world needs in light on it. Often. Rough hard alone is not enough. For the mind alone is even worse. And as though we need both of them together, i dont know where youve come from. What. How can you know where youre going . Youre going to have this looking at gates 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 no body erode. In the end, you dont need more than the holes in the ground and full spruce boards, but did road didnt die without hope. He left behind rising said he couldnt 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 dont die without finding a 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, and that means so is, requests is up to us as you go through life and the world around do shifts and changes and youre trying to make sense of it. For me. Writing is not active. Understanding the mind. Nobody has the absolute truth, not even this i understanding this so we must have maintained a position of the acceptance and respectful those who think differently. I believe different. The love different. We still have things we dont understand. And so, before delving came along, it required a major leap of courage to say that we dont 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 or life actually to 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, were realizing that were more than just rational beings who define themselves solely in terms of utility. The for me, this is all part of the education of the future. We need to know where weve come from, in order to better understand where this journey will take us, the, the colon this for the election officially against the admission of migrants. Yet, under the tables, setting hundreds of thousands of work visas to bribes. The cash for the visa scandals could cost peas, its credibility and election victory. The focus on europe in 30 minutes on d. W. The one of mankinds oldest ambitions could be within reach. What do you see . It really is possible to reverse the researchers and scientists all over the world for in a race against time. They are peers and arrival with one daring goals to help smart nature. 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