gaining political traction. but is he stoking a dangerous culture war? peter boghossian, welcome to hardtalk. i think we have to begin with that word woke . it is so widely used now. i am mindful that its origins in the united states were amongst the black community who insisted, demanded that people should wake up, get woke to injustice. now, that s a positive. you invest the word with a great deal of negativity why? it s not that i invest the word with a great deal of negativity. it s that it s become a catchword. we can use other words. helen pluckrose from the author of cynical theories called it. a british writer and academic. exactly, exactly. ..called it critical socialjustice, people maajid nawaz, also from here, has called it regressive leftism, wesley yang calls it the successor ideology. so it s an ideology that goes by different names, but it basically means the same thing. there s a suite of conclusions around which it cohers. so, for example, the author
we are still a long way from curing. we have been getting some reaction to all that from sir nigel shadbolt, researcher in al, professor at oxford university. he is the executive chair of the open data institute. health s a good example. drug discovery, prediction of disease, it s already performing at levels to analyse images from ct scans to x rays. there s a whole range of ways in which ai, which is great at finding patterns, great at producing outcomes, great at finding and applying the rules that might help us build better solutions, can operate to our benefit. health s a good example, but so is climate change, another existential threat. it will be the ai driven models that help us understand how the climate is changing and what we can do to ameliorate those effects. they will be hugely consequential. and one could really reel off a whole range of area where the benefits really are there to see. they ve been there for decades. we re seeing them more dramatically reveale
intriguing question ofjust exactly where the leader of the russian mercenary group yevgeny prigozhin actually is. he s been a high profile figure in the russian invasion of ukraine but two weeks ago he led a short lived mutiny and was thought to have fled to belarus under an amnesty agreement. now the leader of belarus, alexander lukashenko, says that mr prigozhin has gone back to russia placing his future potentially into question. our russia editor steve rosenberg travelled to the capital of belarus minsk. he was one of only a handful ofjournalists in the room to speak to mr lukashenko who the uk does not recognise as the legitimate president of the country. there are still so many questions about the russian rebellion. would he have the answers? the leader of belarus, alexander lukashenko, brokered the agreement that ended the mutiny, so we are told. under a deal with the kremlin, wagner mercenary yevgeny prigozhin was supposed to move here to belarus with
also on the programme. pretty sure we know which sidejoe biden is on. he is in south carolina this hour, pitching more money into solar and renewables. how does science respond? we will talk about the role of ai in all that. and whether uk scientists will have a seat at the biggest table. speculation today that britain might be ready to rejoing europe s multi billion dollar horizon project. brian taylor, former political editor of bbc scotland. he is pro indepence. maura gillespie, former deputy chief of staff and communications director for congressman adam kinzinger and former adviser to speaker of the house of representatives, john boehner. lets that with this debate over oil and gas production. the boss of energy giant shell says we need to continue to keep on dreaming. in an interview one speaker suggested we still need to discuss because we are not moving fast enough towards renewable energy. the reality is that the energy system of today continues to desperately need o