of will be in the milder zone. some significant snow to begin with in the mountains in the north east. on saturday there will be some sunny spells and temperatures up to about 12. warm christmas eve, back to you, i2. warm christmas eve, back to you, sophie. thanks, matt. and that s bbc news at ten. this is bbc news. we will have the headlines at the top of the hour as newsday continues straight after hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. are the machines about to take over? that basic fear seems to underpin much of the discussion about artificial intelligence, and parallel developments such as synthetic biology. the latest wave of tech advances offers us extraordinary new possibilities, but do we flawed human beings have the will and the means to contain and control them? well, my guest is mustafa suleyman, ceo of inflection ai and the author of a challenging book on al and us. is that a doomed relationship? mustafa suleyman, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for havin
mustafa suleyman, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for having me. it s a great pleasure to have you here. now, you, in your career, are wrestling with the complex relationship between us humans and increasingly intelligent machines. it seems, if i ve got it right, that you re not so much worried about the machines you re worried about us, our wisdom. is that right? it s a great way of putting it. i mean, i think the great challenge we have is one of governance. containment means that we should always be in control of the technologies that we create. and we need to make sure that they are accountable to us as a species, they work for us over many, many decades and centuries, and they always do way, way, way more good than harm. with every new type of technology we have, there are new risks risks that, at the time we experience them, feel really scary. they re new. we don t understand them. they could be completely novel in ways that could be very harmful. but that s no reason t
mustafa suleyman, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for having me. it s a great pleasure to have you here. now, you, in your career, are wrestling with the complex relationship between us humans and increasingly intelligent machines. it seems, if i ve got it right, that you re not so much worried about the machines you re worried about us, our wisdom. is that right? it s a great way of putting it. i mean, i think the great challenge we have is one of governance. containment means that we should always be in control of the technologies that we create. and we need to make sure that they are accountable to us as a species, they work for us over many, many decades and centuries, and they always do way, way, way more good than harm. with every new type of technology we have, there are new risks risks that, at the time we experience them, feel really scary. they re new. we don t understand them. they could be completely novel in ways that could be very harmful. but that s no reason t
the article is funny because it pointed out rachel levine is himself pretty funny. here you have a man dressed up like a woman in makeup and purple glasses wearing some kind of admiral s uniform pretending to be the assistant secretary of health when he looks like a candidate for an imminent heart attack himself. so the whole outfit is a riot. it s like a halloween costume some clever drunk college student dreamed of. this year i m going as an obese transvestite health admiral. you d laugh if you saw him at a party but the biden administration can t allow to you laugh at rachel levine or kamala harris or any of the other transparently absurd figures pretending running our continue are country or for biden himself who somehow got 81 million votes despite being senile and rarely going outside. it s all pretty funny when you think about it but you can t laugh and you can t laugh because humor is the most subversive thing. once you start noticing the pure hilarious ridiculousness
next time you get in trouble, call a crackhead. we re going to get into this. we re in the midterm homestretch. what you see from senator kennedy is not actually an aberration at this point. many republicans are turning to fear tactics, tropes, racial references, and sometimes outright documented racism in this part of the final weeks of this campaign. some candidates are used in the past racial dog whistles. that s the tactic where you re signaling a type of racism to one audience while preserving your deniability. but lately the right wing relied on social sirens than any dual whistling. crime is up in america and that could be a valid issue for campaigns but some republicans are literally campaigning on the false racist accusation that black americans would be the cause of all american crime. and i m going to show you exactly the quote so you can decide for yourself what you re hearing. but i want to you know up front, this is not like a fringe or rookie candidate. in th