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Forcing the Hand

Flash Forward

Flash Forward Presents

Science

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2015

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

This week’s future is a social experiment. What if Earth had a robotic overlord who decided to ban all weapons? All fights would have to be hand to hand. Would there be less death that way? Less casualties? What counts as a weapon anyway? Listen to the episode to find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi and I am your host.

0:03.7

If you're new to... If you're new...

0:04.7

... Hi and welcome to Meanwhile in the future.

0:12.3

I'm Rose and I am your host.

0:14.0

If you're new to Meanwhile in the Future,

0:16.0

which you probably are because this is only our third episode,

0:20.0

here's how it works.

0:21.0

Every week we take a trip into a weird, crazy future that I've made up.

0:24.7

Then we teleport back to now, and we talk about how that specific future might play out,

0:29.6

with the help of some experts. It's fun and sometimes scary but mostly fun. This week we're

0:35.6

going to Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming.

1:00.8

We apologize for the delay in this decision.

1:03.0

As you know, the computational capacity of our UNBOT is unrivaled,

1:07.0

but we're asking it to solve extremely difficult problems for us.

1:11.0

In this case, the risk analysis and scenario run-throughs took a bit

1:14.6

longer than we expected, but we're finally here to let UNBOT describe its

1:18.9

decision. As agreed, UNBOT's decision will be final.

1:24.0

We have learned the hard way what ignoring its orders might do,

1:27.0

and I don't need to remind you all the vote we all took

1:30.0

placing full power in the hands of UNBot. Its algorithms are final. With that, I will let

1:36.6

the bot describe the your problem of war. I regret to inform you that no simulation eliminate

1:56.6

war completely. None of them will eliminate death. None of them will stop humans from killing each other.

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