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00:00:00someone has fallen in a nursing home or help rescuers
00:00:03find people faster during disasters, and
00:00:06parts of it already work, at least in the lab.
00:00:10researchers in Italy have shown that wi-fi signals can sense people
00:00:14and follow their movement. so how
00:00:16does it work? wi-fi uses electromagnetic
00:00:20waves, and it's everywhere these days. it passes through walls
00:00:24and people. our bodies reflect and absorb this signal,
00:00:27suddenly altering it. Measuring these
00:00:30changes lets researchers detect movement, positions and
00:00:34motion patterns that one day might become distinctive enough to
00:00:37tell people apart, somewhat like
00:00:39fingerprint.
00:00:43At the Frauenhofa Institute for Integrated Circuits in
00:00:46Nurnberg, scientists are studying how radio waves can be
00:00:50used to determine what's inside an
00:00:52object.
00:00:56Not with our eyes, of course, with electromagnetic radiation.
00:01:01To demonstrate the principle, they run an experiment: two sealed
00:01:05packages, each filled with different screws. Using radio
00:01:08waves, they check what's inside them. The system
00:01:11analyzes how radio frequency electromagnetic signals are
00:01:15altered as they interact with the objects, using principles
00:01:18similar to wi-fi. And it works: the screws
00:01:22can be identified on the screen.
00:01:26So if you're packaging screws for a client with an automated system.
00:01:38Radio waves are already part of everyday life,
00:01:42we use them to listen to the radio, make a cell phone
00:01:45call or stream
00:01:47music.
00:01:50GPS helps us navigate,
00:01:53democracy stands in the way of medical imaging like MRI relies on magnetic fields and
00:01:57radio waves. Wi-Fi uses only. radio
00:02:00waves, what it can do is still more limited, but still
00:02:03remarkable. unlike surveillance cameras, it doesn't matter
00:02:07if it's dark or if someone changes how they look.
00:02:11instead, the system reads how the body affects the
00:02:13signal, but identifying who someone is is
00:02:17much harder. the researchers carry out another
00:02:20test: the subject carries a receiver.
00:02:24using radio waves, they pinpoint her position. it's
00:02:28much more precise than conventional. carrying
00:03:08device, tracking becomes more
00:03:10complex.
00:03:13the system has to rely on how signals travel between
00:03:17transmitters.
00:03:20as she moves through the room, she scatters and absorbs radio
00:03:23waves. walls and floors reflect the signals as
00:03:27well.
00:03:31and so do
00:03:31objects
00:03:35with multiple people, the problem becomes even harder. It's
00:03:39a bit like ripples and water. One disturbance
00:03:42is easy to track, many overlapping waves are difficult to
00:03:46separate.
00:03:49In practice, the signal travels much like light. It
00:03:53doesn't just move along the direct path between a transmitter and a
00:03:56receiver. It's also reflected by objects.
00:05:01They had collected data on about 13 or 14
00:05:03people, using that same data, they were able to
00:05:07reidentify those people, but only in lab
00:05:10conditions, and only with one person in the...
00:05:13environments, one person was in the room, no more
00:05:15people.
00:05:20How someone moves or how their body alters the
00:05:23signal. Outside the lab, it still isn't
00:05:26reliable, but the technology is
00:05:29improving, and unlike cameras, it's invisible, works
00:05:32without light and can see through walls. Avoiding it is almost
00:05:36impossible.
00:05:40You don't have to be afraid today.
00:06:12consequences of a technology like this: who controls it and who
00:06:16sets the limits? in 2024, the European
00:06:19Union passed the world's first law to regulate
00:06:22AI, but tech billionaires like Elon Musk
00:06:26and Peter Teel and companies like Apple and
00:06:29Meta reject limits on AI, while promoting
00:06:33vision of the future that goes beyond science fiction into the
00:06:36realm of science
00:06:37fantasy.
00:06:41this man wan to go to Mars, Elon
00:06:44Musk, the richest man in the world. While
00:06:47NASA is aiming for a crude Mars mission around
00:06:512040, Musk has set his sights on
00:06:542031. He wants to launch the Starship
00:06:57rocket developed by his company SpaceX towards
00:07:01Mars in late 2026,
00:07:04and by 2050 he says 1 million people could be
00:07:08living there.
00:07:11So what is Musk? visionary or just a
00:07:14megalomaniac with too much money. we pay a
00:07:18visit to daniela, a mars expert at the DLR
00:07:22Institute of planetary research in Germany. what does science
00:07:26make of these dreams of Mars? science
00:07:28fiction.
00:07:32million people living on Mars is very
00:07:34unlikely. because um isn't suited for
00:07:38long-term human colonization. it just
00:07:40doesn't provide the conditions. for humans to be able to stay healthy and
00:07:44survive there,
00:07:48mars has far too little gravity, no
00:07:51dense atmosphere and no protective magnetic
00:07:55field. it's not a plan b, a planet b for
00:07:58humanity.
00:08:02if we have the technology to colonize Mars, then we have the technology
00:08:06to save earth. our know how should go into saving our own
00:08:09planet, the best one in the solar system. Germany's
00:08:33first professor of AI ethics has studied their
00:08:36ideas.
00:09:42that collect data and can explain and predict the
00:09:46behavior of each
00:09:47person.
00:09:50According to biographys, Elon Musk and Peter Teel were both
00:09:54fascinated by fantasy and science fiction comics as boys
00:09:57and that fascination still seems to shape their
00:10:01thinking today. Peter Teal founded Palentier
00:10:05Technologies, named after the all-seeing stones in
00:10:08Tolkins Lord of the Rings. The company
00:10:11builds military and intelligence software, powerful tools
00:10:15and dangerous ones in the wrong hands, as the wizard
00:10:18gandolf warned. Gotham, the Palentier analytics
00:10:22software, is named after the unruly. city in the Batman
00:10:26Universe
00:10:28and Anderal Industries which builds AI controlled weapons
00:10:32and is closely linked to Palandier takes its name from
00:10:36powerful sword in the Lord of the Rings. These tech
00:10:40billionaires sound like characters straight out of science
00:10:43fiction and they have a plan. Critics call it
00:10:46Tesgril.
00:10:53Tesgril is an acronym that bundle several tech world
00:10:56ideologies: one is transhumanism,
00:11:00merging the human brain with computers, promising eternal
00:11:03life in machines. Singularity is the moment a
00:11:07super intelligent AI is born. Eugenics, the
00:11:11idea that only the highly intelligent should reproduce,
00:11:14essentially an elite dictatorship. Looming over
00:11:17all this is long-termism. Climate change, environmental damage and
00:11:21poverty are sidelined in favor of spreading humanity across the galaxy.
00:12:03claimed that regulating AI would speed up the
00:12:06arrival of the antichrist. he's even said he knows who that
00:12:09is, in his view, greta
00:12:11tumberg.
00:12:14he also argues that the
00:12:18future.
00:12:21he says, "i no longer believe that freedom and democracy"
00:12:40AI speeds up climate change through massive resource use or leads to discrimination and social inequality, those are minor issues, at least when compared to the countless human
00:12:44lives that could exist in the ultra distant
00:12:47future. would enable in the ultra-distant future.
00:12:51earth faces climate change.
00:12:55an environmental collapse, Elon Musk's plan to colonize
00:12:58Mars is framed as the first step towards a cosmic
00:13:02future. The key idea is terraforming, using
00:13:05technology to reshape Mars, making it more like
00:13:08earth with a breathable
00:13:10atmosphere.
00:13:13The idea sounds tempting, but it's not really thought through. For
00:13:17this to work, a planet needs two key things: first, enough
00:13:20gravity to hold to an atmosphere, and
00:13:23second, a magnetic... field to protect that atmosphere from being
00:13:27stripped away by the sun,
00:13:31so is all this just fantasy? critics
00:13:33like kaina, use the term tech fascism to describe
00:13:37these grand future visions promoted by tech
00:13:40billionaires. supporters of this thinking refer to something they
00:13:43call the dark
00:13:45enlightenment.
00:13:48transhumanists and technofascist thinkers
00:13:51argue that hierarchies between genders or... they
00:13:55say that hierarchies between genders or
00:13:58between ethnic groups
00:14:00presumably,
00:14:05power relations not as a social problem, where one could, for example, politically
00:14:09oppose it, they embrace these
00:14:11hierarchies, using them to justify
00:14:14excluding, marginalizing, and discriminating against certain
00:14:18people.
00:14:25Elon Musk planning to take to Mars a hand-picked elete
00:14:28people like himself and other tech oligarchs to carry on
00:14:32once they've made earth
00:14:33unlivable?
00:14:36What kind of elite would that even be? They're describing
00:14:39survival, not a good life. Mars is a
00:14:42frozen desert, extremely cold and dry. People
00:14:45would have to live inside domes, there would be no blue sky, no
00:14:49plants, at least not
00:14:50outdoors.
00:14:55often seen as visionaries, but many people don't fully
00:14:58understand what those visions are, and who would
00:15:02benefit?
00:15:06ai chat bots like chat gpt don't just make
00:15:09mistakes, they sometimes invent things or
00:15:13hallucinate. they don't actually know everything, but sound as
00:15:16if they do, filling in the gaps with answers that seem
00:15:20convincing, even when they're wrong. a recent
00:15:23study found that nearly... half of their responses contained
00:15:27problems or mistakes, it's like auto complete on
00:15:31steroids, but the consequences can be very
00:15:34real. It all started when my...
00:17:07case it may have learned that whenever this reporter's name came up, a
00:17:11crime was mentioned next, so it
00:17:14built sentences that sound plausible, but have nothing to do with
00:17:17reality,
00:17:21and bound clow's not alone, a recent study
00:17:24looked at 3,000 responses from four AI
00:17:27assistants about news events,
00:17:3045% contained at least one significant
00:17:33problem, in 31% sources were
00:17:36missing,
00:19:07"we tend to think of data protection as fixed data set and a person
00:19:11appears in it. That's
00:19:14the problem, that model is outdated. With
00:19:17AI, everything is mixed together and the links are much looser. That
00:19:21doesn't reflect reality anymore. We need to rethink
00:19:24the law so it properly covers how AI actually
00:19:27works.
00:19:31In other words, the law hasn't cut up with how AI works and what can
00:19:35go wrong."
00:19:38Microsoft says it's taken action,
00:19:41boundcloud's name is now blocked on co-pilot so he no longer appears at
00:19:45all.
00:19:47In a statement, the company says it's working to improve responses
00:19:51and urges users to verify
00:19:53sources.
00:19:56We also explicitly inform users that they are interacting with an
00:19:59AI system. In addition, we recommend checking the links
00:20:03to source
00:20:03materials.
00:20:08According to bal, Microsoft offered him
00:20:12in compensation and to cover his legal
00:20:15costs.
00:20:24Which could help create the legal and political framework to
00:20:27regulate AI and define
00:20:29responsibility.
00:20:37then his legal fight
00:20:39continues,
00:20:42so is this AI or is it real? it's getting
00:20:46harder to tell and that matters more than ever when..."
00:20:50manipulation and fake news erode trust, democracy is
00:20:53put at risk. Social media is also where many young
00:20:57people shape their views, learn to get along and find their
00:21:01communities. That's why a pilot project in Germany is
00:21:05helping students build the skills they'll need in
00:21:08today's digital
00:21:10democracy.
00:21:15Today, these seventh graders are turning their classroom into a film
00:21:19set. the topic is values and community,
00:21:23they're acting, directing and filming, doing it all
00:21:25themselves, and this is the result.
00:21:41They can make or break a
00:21:42conversation.
00:22:50We need right now, people who want to get involved, who are curious
00:22:53and have the confidence to dive
00:22:55in.
00:22:58More education on democracy is urgently needed in
00:23:00schools. Only about two-thirds of adults in Germany
00:23:04believe young people will be ready to stand up for
00:23:07democracy. Young people themselves are even more
00:23:10skeptical, just 54% believe their
00:23:13generation will stand up for democracy as
00:23:15adults.
00:23:18Communication coach Maya's.
00:23:50In our workshops, Summa raises awareness of these
00:23:53challenges. Her message, policymakers need
00:23:56to do much more to bring these topics into
00:23:59schools.
00:24:01In this community, they've taken a first step. The students had
00:24:05fun, learned a lot and took a lot of pride in their