Rowan Hooper

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1,427 appearances 18 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 3d ago

Rowan Hooper’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The World, the Universe and Us · THIS Is What You Need To Worry About With The Rise Of AI · 18 Sep 2026 podcast

Well, you know, as we were talking about this, it made me think a bit of how we're not adapting and planning properly for all the climate change problems that we know are coming down the line. voice-verified

really getting ready for those. voice-verified

And despite what you said about voice-verified

You know, the comparisons to the industrial revolution and we're talking about a cognitive revolution that could be coming up, an AI revolution. voice-verified

Despite what you said about that, I still feel there are these massive changes coming voice-verified

we're not, we are not really thinking. voice-verified

I do feel that it's going to, and despite what you're saying about, you know, our jobs are secure for a while, I am still worried that there is going to be this gigantic change going down the line that we don't understand. voice-verified

So I've got some hard figures on that, on the sort of Star Trek utopia side of things maybe. voice-verified

So deep tech companies that we used to hear quite a lot about – voice-verified

you know, a decade ago. voice-verified

Deep voice-verified

So there are things like really fancy like brain computer interfaces or nuclear fusion development, developing that, things like those sorts of almost sci-fi things. voice-verified

Investment on those has recently really jumped. voice-verified

And here's some figures. voice-verified

One hundred and fifty billion dollars have been put into those companies since 2024 compared to only 133 billion in the whole 10 years of 2009 to 2019. voice-verified

So and the suggestion is that. voice-verified

Well, first of all, AI is helping to solve those problems. voice-verified

then the expectation is that AI will also be able to solve those sort of fusion problems and other problems, material science and stuff like that. voice-verified

So there is a lot of excitement over these big, big sci-fi type Star voice-verified

Well, and also with the Industrial Revolution, you know, that perhaps is where the gigantic inequality we see in society first started really widening out. voice-verified

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