Is humanity smart enough to survive itself? | Jeanette Winterson
TED Talks Daily23 Aug 2022

Is humanity smart enough to survive itself? | Jeanette Winterson

With quick wit and sharp insight, writer Jeanette Winterson lays out a vision of the future where human and machine intelligence meld -- forming what she calls “alternative intelligence” -- and takes a philosophical look at our species, asking: Are we smart enough to survive how smart we are? (Followed by a Q&A with TED’s head of curation Helen Walters)

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