James Barrat Biography

James Barrat has written and produced documentaries one of the most rewarding ways of telling stories ever invented. His clients include National Geographic Discovery PBS and other broadcasters in the US and Europe. Barrat's long fascination with Artificial Intelligence came to a head in 2000 when he interviewed inventor Ray Kurzweil roboticist Rodney Brooks and sci-fi legend Arthur C. Clarke. Kurzweil and Brooks were casually optimistic about a future they considered inevitable - a time when we will share the planet with intelligent machines. Intelligence will win out. Intelligence not charm or beauty is the special power that enables humans to dominate Earth. Now propelled by a powerful economic wind scientists are developing intelligent machines. Each year intelligence grows closer to shuffling off its biological coil and taking on an infinitely faster and more powerful synthetic one. But before machine intelligence matches our own we have a chance. We must develop a science for understanding and coexisting with smart even superintelligent machines. If we fail we'll be stuck in an unwinnable dilemma. We'll have to rely on the kindness of machines to survive.

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