George Aranda

Hello.

Hi there.

Well, I guess I do a few things.

I do science communication and science education.

I guess I just like the ability to contextualise ideas and science, whether they're philosophy or whether it's new science ideas that are coming out.

things like COVID or to do with gravity or all those kinds of things.

I think narrative provides a really good way to contextualise it.

So science isn't just something that happens in a void.

It's connected to families.

It's connected to society.

It's connected to our current beliefs.

And I think narrative is a really good way of expressing that.

I think science fiction is really useful.

It provides us with ideas that we might not normally have thought about.

Quite often we're at the edges of science and we need to explore what goes beyond what we are currently capable of.

So the ideas behind things like AI are things that we need to start thinking about now.

So obviously the science fiction trope of AI is the Terminator scenario, but there are many more shades of grey between where we are now and there.

And the ethics and the rules and our reliance for things like autonomous cars rely on things like AI.

And we have to consider how these are going to be unpacked in the future in terms of policy and in terms of physical reality.

Exactly right.