00:00How do we drive our ethical compass when we don't know what would be the implication
00:09and the application of the work we are doing?
00:12Imagine spending your entire life searching for truth only to realize that the same knowledge
00:19that heals humanity can also destroy it. This is the scientist's dilemma.
00:30I'm a postdoctoral researcher at University of Bristol and like many young scientists in UK,
00:36I do work on technology with dual use. Give me one technology that is not dual use.
00:42This is a dual use thing. I can use it. I can use it to uplift this audience or I
00:51can use it to sink
00:53you down. Depends on my intent. This is a weapon. This is a weapon. Is it not dual use?
01:00What to do then? Not console oneself by saying, no, no, no, no, no. Now I have this kind of
01:07a protection
01:08that cannot be breached. I have enveloped the new technology in a code that cannot be read.
01:17All that won't work. What man has made, man can break. You can build a giant fence in the morning
01:26and then devise ways to get around it or get over it in the evening because you are the doer.
01:32What you
01:33make, you can break. The code is all yours. Remember. Oh yes, we have nuclear weapons, but we also have
01:39treaties. Oh no, we'll impose sanctions. Oh no, we'll have non-proliferation treaties. Oh yeah,
01:47we'll penalize fuel enrichment. No, no, no. European stockpiles. So don't tell yourself
01:55better technology is the answer to prevent the misuse of dual use technology. No, no. The answer
02:05is mass-based education. Man will have to change. Mankind will have to choose the right inner center
02:14first.
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