Amanda Scott

Yes, it's so self-centered.

It's so egocentric and insecure.

And they're already telling us.

Exactly.

Yeah, there was a beautiful story.

We probably don't have time, but the connection between a tree and the whales that was shown in an Aboriginal mythology.

And then when the tree started to die, there was something that they could make from the bones of whales that beached themselves that helped to heal the tree.

It was gorgeous.

Let's not go into that.

People, you need to read this book.

I need to read that bit.

Right at the end, we're way over time, but we need to talk about CRISPR.

Because that, honestly, I'm in the process of very slowly reading the book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, which is about possible sentient AI and how incredibly likely it is to wipe everything out, not just people, but all life.

And then I read about CRISPR and thought, oh, my God.

The ingenuity of humanity is amazing, but we should not be allowed to have these things.

They're dangerous.

And that may be just me panicking.

So please unpanic me.

It's a cut and paste, basically, isn't it?

It's an editing tool.