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The implications of the new technologies, especially again,

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artificial intelligence and bioengineering,

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it undermines the very most basic assumptions of the liberal order

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about human free will, about individualism,

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about these basic slogans that the customer is always right,

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the voter knows best, the new technologies really undermine these assumptions.

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The crucial point is what happens when outside system and outside algorithm

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knows you better than you know yourself.

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Know how you feel, can predict your emotions,

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can manipulate your emotions, can predict your decisions, your choices,

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can make choices on your behalf.

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And this is true of the marketplace where a corporation knows your choices

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better than you and can predict and also manipulate your choices.

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More and more decisions, crucial decisions in people's lives,

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what to study, where to work, who to marry, whom to vote for.

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There is an algorithm out there that can tell you better than what you can tell yourself.

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People think it can never happen.

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Humans are too complicated.

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We have souls, we have spirits, no algorithm can ever figure out.

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These mysterious things like the human soul of free will.

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But I think that this is 18th century mythology,

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which held on for 200 years because there was no technology to do it.

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But now, or very soon, we will have the technology to do it.

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And it will force us to rethink the fundamentals of things like the free market

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or democratic politics.

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How do you get people convinced of your vision and enough people, enough countries,

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to actually make it work?

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So in terms of the first question of formulating a new vision,

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I don't think that's impossible.

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The first step is to acknowledge the realities, the biological realities of human beings

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and how humans make decisions and where human desires and choices really come from.

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And the enormous potential for both good and bad of the new technologies

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to really hack human beings.

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We are very soon, we will have the technology to have it really total surveillance regime

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in which you can survey the entire population down to the level of what's happening to your blood pressure

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and to your brain activity every minute of the day.

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We might soon reach a point when all the people in power, all the powerful positions

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are still occupied by human beings, not by computers.

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You still have a prime minister, you still have a CEO.

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But the prime minister chooses from a menu written by AI.

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And vision is situation in 20 or 30 years when the system is so complicated

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and so fast moving that no human being is really able to understand it.

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Technology will, on the one hand, make it possible to start enhancing and upgrading humans

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and on the other hand, especially the rise of AI,

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will make more and more humans economically unnecessary useless

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and therefore also politically powerless.

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And the world or humanity might have different parts of humanity,

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might have different futures and we might see really a process of some kind of speciation.