November 11, 2024

Robots: The Aliens We Made

Paul Scharre, Executive Vice President and Director of Studies at CNAS, joins Emily Chang to discuss the world’s most advanced, and most intelligent, robots. Will the creation of a synthetic species with human-like intelligence improve the human experience, or end it?

Watch the full episode on Bloomberg.

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