Brave New Birth: The Ethics of Artificial Womb Technology
Intelligence Squared
Intelligence Squared
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🗓️ 17 April 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes in life, you gotta go big, and nowhere goes bigger than Dubai. |
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| 0:30.0 | Hello, this is Jeremy Bowen, the International Editor of BBC News. |
| 0:34.0 | And I'm here because I want to talk to you about an event I'm doing |
| 0:38.0 | with Intelligent Square on the 2nd of November in London. |
| 0:42.0 | And I'm going to be talking about the more than 30 years that I've spent |
| 0:46.0 | reporting on major events in the Middle East. |
| 0:49.0 | With my great friend and colleague over many, many years, Justin Webb. |
| 0:55.0 | And I'm sure we'll talk about a few other things as well. |
| 0:59.0 | Justin and I started at the BBC on the same day in 1984. |
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| 1:16.0 | Welcome to Intelligent Squared. I'm producer Catherine Hughes. |
| 1:20.0 | On today's episode, we're exploring the fascinating world of reproductive technology |
| 1:24.0 | and the potential impact that artificial wombs could have on society. |
| 1:28.0 | Our host is physicist and broadcaster, Helen Chesky. |
| 1:32.0 | Here's Helen with more. |
| 1:35.0 | Today we are looking at how technology forces ethics to take a big long look in the mirror, |
| 1:41.0 | with a topic that sounds a bit like science fiction, and that is artificial wombs. |
| 1:46.0 | These don't exist today for humans, but perhaps it's time to start thinking about |
| 1:50.0 | what would happen if they did exist, because the technology is creeping ever closer to reality. |
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