Aleks Krotoski

It sets death up as failure.

It sets aging up as failure.

And that has a huge psychological impact on people who are going through decline.

And also you're funneling away way too much money from stuff that needs to be there to help the people who, between today and whenever you get your silver bullet, philosopher's stone made out of ones and zeros, these people need support now.

Absolutely.

And some of my contributors really were like very, in fact, one of the people who did the fact checking on this was just like screaming at some of these, some of the people who were talking about, you know, one of my contributors was basically saying, what about all of these other people in the world?

There is nobody else who's being consulted on this except for this person.

cohort and you know there's no comments about gender there's no comments about sexuality there's no conversations about disability there's no conversations about culture all these different appropriate inappropriatenesses are just coming to the fore and um yeah it's a great fantasy it's a great fairy tale until the day it actually happens and then who's gonna pick up the pieces well

Not them.

Yeah.

Because I asked all of them, so what happens next?

And not a single person had an answer for me.

And that was also quite disturbing because that's exactly why we are in the position today that we are in.

Now, we can excuse that from the past.

We can say, well, we didn't realize that...

technology was going to become such a big part of our lives and that, you know, the fallout would be decline of democracies, increase in populism.

We didn't realize these things would happen.

Now we do.

Now we recognize that there is a cause and there is an effect.

So why not think about what's going to happen once you throw these technologies at your problem?