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What you would see are thousands and thousands of kinds of biomolecules, little nanoscale machines organized in complex, 3D patterns, and together they mediate those electrical pulses, those chemical exchanges that allow neurons to work together to generate things like thoughts and feelings and so forth.

Now, we don't know how the neurons in the brain are organized to form networks, and we don't know how the biomolecules are organized within neurons to form these complex, organized machines.

I think we've all seen brain scans taken using MRI machines.

But of course, the problems begin with those little nanoscale molecules, the machines that make the cells and the organs in our body tick.

These DNA machines are wonderful.

But once they find it, that DNA is still tiny, and surrounded by so much other DNA, that what these machines then do is copy the target gene, and one copy piles on top of another, millions and millions and millions of copies, until that gene stands out against the rest; until we can visualize it, interpret it, read it, understand it, until we can answer: Does my pig have the flu?

Even judges use the output of these machines in court to decide whether someone is innocent or guilty based on DNA evidence.

Three years ago, together with a fellow biologist and friend of mine, Zeke Alvarez Saavedra, we decided to make personal DNA machines that anyone could use.

For example, I could never have imagined that a truffle farmer, of all people, would use personal DNA machines.

But personal DNA machines can also save human lives.

But instead, Ian could use personal DNA machines small enough to be placed in front of the air-conditioning unit to keep sequencing the virus and keep saving lives.

Personal DNA machines are now aboard the International Space Station, where they can help monitor living conditions and protect the lives of astronauts.

In other words, the harm that's caused isn't actually caused by the machines or the radiation.

I mean, we can crank out these machines on assembly lines, we do know how to make things cheap, but there's just not enough people that want them."

But I just think the most important thing, if we're going to overcome the climate crisis, is to keep in mind that the cause of the clean energy crisis isn't from within our machines, it's from within ourselves.

During the 19th century, immigrants and urban political machines helped fuel this culture of voting.

Behind door number one, we stop making progress in building intelligent machines.

So the only alternative, and this is what lies behind door number two, is that we continue to improve our intelligent machines year after year after year.

At a certain point, we will build machines that are smarter than we are, and once we have machines that are smarter than we are, they will begin to improve themselves.

It's not that our machines will become spontaneously malevolent.

The concern is really that we will build machines that are so much more competent than we are that the slightest divergence between their goals and our own could destroy us.

The concern is that we will one day build machines that, whether they're conscious or not, could treat us with similar disregard.

We have already built narrow intelligence into our machines, and many of these machines perform at a level of superhuman intelligence already.

I mean, there's just atoms in here, and as long as we continue to build systems of atoms that display more and more intelligent behavior, we will eventually, unless we are interrupted, we will eventually build general intelligence into our machines.

We will continue to improve our intelligent machines.

It seems overwhelmingly likely, however, that the spectrum of intelligence extends much further than we currently conceive, and if we build machines that are more intelligent than we are, they will very likely explore this spectrum in ways that we can't imagine, and exceed us in ways that we can't imagine.

If intelligence is just a matter of information processing, and we continue to improve our machines, we will produce some form of superintelligence.

Another reason we're told not to worry is that these machines can't help but share our values because they will be literally extensions of ourselves.

They're even building machines, weapons, that might kill human beings in war.

Is this the kind of society we want to build, without even knowing we've done this, because we turned decision-making to machines we don't totally understand?

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