This TED Talk features technology strategist Lucy Ferry Jones, recorded live at TED 2019.

I'm here because I've spent far too many nights lying awake, worrying and wondering who wins in the end.

Is it humans or is it robots?

You see, as a technology strategist, my job involves

behaviour change, understanding why and how people adopt new technologies. And that means I'm really

frustrated that I know I won't live to see how this all ends up. And in fact, if the youngest person

watching this is 14 and the oldest, a robust 99, then together

our collective consciousnesses span just 185 years.

That is a myopic pinprick of time when you think of the evolution and the story of life

on this planet.

Turns out we're all in the cheap seats and none of us will live to see how it all pans out.

So at my company, we wanted a way around this.

We wanted to see if there was a way to canterleaver out beyond our fixed temporal vantage point

to get a sense of how it all shakes up.

And to do this, we conducted a study amongst 1,200 Americans,

representative of the US Census, in which we asked a battery of attitudinal questions around

robotics and AI, and also captured behavioral ones around technology adoption. We had a big

study so that we could analyze differences in gender and generations between religious and political beliefs,

even job function and personality trait.

It is a fascinating time-bound time capsule of our human frailty

in this pre-dawn of the robotic era.

And I have five minutes to tell you about it.

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