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When in '96 I was sent by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to the North Caucasus, I knew some of the risks.

We all knew about the risks, and how terrifying the journey is, and I met many people who lost loved ones at sea.

We recognize that there are potential risks and potential for abuse, but personally, having spent many years doing this, I believe that the benefits to humanity from having emotionally intelligent technology far outweigh the potential for misuse.

When the Montreal Protocol called for the phasing out of CFCs, the chlorofluorocarbons implicated in the hole in the ozone layer, the risks were immense.

And right before the operation, we were able to discuss the functional map of my brain with the doctor, to understand which risks I was running into and if there were any I wanted to avoid.

And you can do so from the comfort of your own home, without the risks associated with buying on the streets.

With all the risks to his safety and his health, some would say no.

The risks associated with 9/11 will not be measured in terms of lives lost by terror attacks or buildings destroyed or trillions of dollars spent. They'll be measured in terms of the costs of our distraction from critical issues and our inability to get together scientists, technologists, government leaders, at a moment of transformation akin to the beginning of the Renaissance, akin to the beginning of the major transformational eras that have happened on Earth, and start coming up with, if not the right answers, then at least the right questions.

I think that in the end, this technology will be used for human genome engineering, but I think to do that without careful consideration and discussion of the risks and potential complications would not be responsible.

And let me take a pause in this story right here and ask the question: why do refugees like Doaa take these kinds of risks?

You have the right to have access to this kind of information to begin the conversation about whether you want to take the risks or not.

And I find that a very encouraging message, in fact, that even in the face of huge amounts of data, it still pays off to make decisions, to be an expert in what you're doing and take risks.

Because in the end, it's not data, it's risks that will land you on the right end of the curve.

And three: the part you have control over, the choices you make, the risks you take, and how you think about and respond to challenges and setbacks.

Because of these risks, pregnancy is always a huge, and sometimes dangerous, investment.

Scientists have a harder time quantifying these risks.

For the remainder that is ionizing, our exposures are usually low, and choices like getting your home tested for radon and wearing sunscreen can help reduce the associated health risks.

The leading theory is that our skin has evolved to be acutely aware of touch so that we're equipped to deal with risks from the outside world.

And even when we're ambitious, even when we're leaning in, that socialization of perfection has caused us to take less risks in our careers.

Of course, radiation was something we were unaware of until the late 1800s, let alone the associated cancer risks, which we discovered much later.

We're judged internally and externally by our convictions and our trial wins, so prosecutors aren't really incentivized to be creative at our case dispositions, or to take risks on people we might not otherwise.

We don't know the answers, we don't know if we're going to find them, and we know that the risks are high.

Another group of ingredients in smartphones comes with similar environmental risks: these are metals such as copper, silver, palladium, aluminum, platinum, tungsten, tin, lead, and gold.

Let's have some risks.

There are risks to doing stuff, and there are risks to not doing stuff, because there were a couple dozen people saved by this technology, and then we've been thinking about it for the next 20 years.

And with this shift in technologies, we were able to begin to understand that there was a shift in the economic equation, because we were able to recognize that yes, there are huge costs to climate change, and yes, there are compounded risks.

What this shows is that when faced with some global challenges, policy makers are able to act collectively, with urgency, and run the risks of unconventional policies like money printing.

The real question is: Do we care enough about future generations to take the very same policy risks we took to save the financial system?

So after a lot of questions about how this could have possibly happened, a selective reduction was mentioned, and while this procedure was not impossible, it posed some unique risks for the healthy twin and for me, so we decided to carry the pregnancy to term.

All we can do going forward, I think, is talk honestly about the risks and benefits and take responsibility for our choices.

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