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Martin Rees is the 15th Astronomer Royal, an actual senior post in the Royal Households of the United Kingdom. That  as he writes half-seriously in his new book, On the Future: Prospects for Humanity, if the Queen of England wanted her horoscope done, “I’m the one she’d ask.” Rees isn’t actually an astrologer — he’s a cosmologist and astrophysicist, one who in a long and distinguished scientific career has made breakthroughs on black holes and the tantalizing possibility of the multiverse, while finding time to serve as president of the Royal Society and as master of Trinity College at
Cambridge University, where he still works today at the age of 76. 

This interview has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity.
  Martin Rees: I don’t think it’s changed, really. I describe myself as a technological optimist but a political pessimist. We have the technology to provide a good life for 9 billion people in the world by the middle of the century, but we’ll have a bumpy ride because of political constraints. That’s still my view.
 

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I don’t think it’s changed, really. I describe myself as a technological optimist but a political pessimist. We have the technology to provide a good life for 9 billion people in the world by the middle of the century, but we’ll have a bumpy ride because of political constraints. That’s still my view.
 

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As regards A.I. and the machines taking over, of course some people worry about that. But I think that is a longer-term concern, and I think it may be misleading. People assume that machines will be aggressive and expansionist like we are. We have evolved via natural selection, by a process which has favored intelligence but also favored aggression. But if Darwin and biological evolution is replaced by technological evolution, there’s no particular reason why it should be strictly analogous to the harsh survival of the fittest. I don’t see why we would assume that these machines will be aggressive rather than contemplative.
 
As regards A.I. and the machines taking over, of course some people worry about that. But I think that is a longer-term concern, and I think it may be misleading. People assume that machines will be aggressive and expansionist like we are. We have evolved via natural selection, by a process which has favored intelligence but also favored aggression. But if Darwin and biological evolution is replaced by technological evolution, there’s no particular reason why it should be strictly analogous to the harsh survival of the fittest. I don’t see why we would assume that these machines will be aggressive rather than contemplative.

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