Dr. Marcelo Suárez-Orozco

I mean, if you do just basic surveys, folk panic.

are extraordinarily concerned.

So this dialectic between techno effervescence and techno panic needs to be resolved to get into a techno coexistence in the service of humanity.

Science will benefit enormously

from AI.

We had at one of the summits, one of the leading vaccinologists in the world talk about how the development of vaccines, the development of medical breakthroughs is being enhanced dramatically.

But there's also a dark side, a side that dehumanizes us, a side that makes us tools, clocks.

in a machinery without a heart.

Well, I've been involved in various capacities with the Academy for about two decades now.

And it's a scholarly, it's a scientific Academy.

Its origins really go back to Galileo.

It was Galileo's Academy.

And it is entirely secular in that our colleagues come from all faiths, all religions, all nationalities, all disciplines.

No, not at all.

Many of my colleagues are not Catholics.

No, all religions, all nationalities, entirely secular.

So you're nominated.

It takes a long, long, long time.

I mean, the main work I did for Francis way, way back over the last beginning, before Francis actually, was on immigration and on refugee flows.

That's my area of expertise.