Rowan Hooper

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The World, the Universe and Us · How to Be Hopeful: Caitlin Moran and New Scientist Look to the Future · 21 Sep 2026 podcast

If it does that in the electricity grid,

as well and you increase in efficiency say by forty percent in all these systems, it would absolutely change the world.

I know we always roll our eyes about fusion, right?

But some people do say now fusion is where they're doing it.

Some people have always said that I know what you're gonna say.

No, but it is.

but like again, this is people are saying no it is it w it is looking different now, and one reason is because AI can solve these m mad problems with with um getting fusion working.

Well at the moment we are, yeah.

But then you could get to more of a an A G I a general intelligence.

But no, I'm j yeah, I'm just really talking about these custom ones.

So AlphaFold.

Well, so that is the danger, that is the sort of dark side of it, is that it's it's this sort of hyper capitalist form of it that it can ve that it has gone into that that's the threat.

That's what we sort of need to avoid.

Or we might we may not be able to avoid it, that might still g carry on.

But at the same time, at least we've got these other things uh potentially within reach.

Yeah.

I I think they must have just made a cold decision, thought this is where the money is.

We're gonna go roll out L L Ms 'cause people want them to 'cause they can't be bothered to write their own email or write their own eulogies to their parents' funeral so they'll just get Chat GPT to do it and

Well I think it's

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