"We Might Have 100 Years Left!" Neil deGrasse Tyson On The World Ending

Well, welcome back to peace. I'm very excited now. I'm not crazy about a lot of guests, but I've always wanted to sit with this guy because he's one of the. Well, he's probably the number one astrophysicist in the

world

. A rock star. from space yes even while we were sitting here he has been telling me what is on my own screen behind me because to me it looks like a big maze that he knows and he is Neil Degrasse Tyson. Thanks for coming. You're in The country I was in had to attract you to my studio and I'm very happy about that, I was just on the hood before I continued, what is this behind that we put here?

Okay, so this. These stars that are appearing are just special effects, but in the background there is a real image of the Milky Way and what appears right now is the galactic center behind us and in the center lurks a supermassive black hole dining on any star that it gets too close look, you

have

a gigantically big brain for this kind of thing right, you accept that it's the same size as everyone else's brain, I just prioritize what matters to me differently than everyone else, well I guess that what you're brilliant at doing You've got this fantastic book coming to the moment, but you're brilliantly crystallizing the really important questions in life, one of which is how long

have

we been here.

Yeah, well, there are some thoughts on that because we don't know yet. Enough about the forces that will end, sorry, we may have a hundred

years

on Earth at the rate we're going, not really, sorry, there are Earth problems that require geopolitical solutions, self-harm, okay, right, and then there's the universe, the death of the sun the collision of the milky way with the andromeda galaxy and possibly the great tear how it would be okay how the sun would die oh sun like any star will run out of fuel in its core and will begin to change, will begin to swell and grow so much that it will envelop the orbit of Mercury and Venus and come very close to Earth, so imagine looking on the horizon and the sunrise is in the middle of the sky.

Well, that would be terrifying. Is this starting to happen? No, not yet, we have another several billion

years

. You're going to prioritize with that, right, it's a deleted intro, right? Don't you know people said that to start with what's troubling you? Yes, let it go well, but there is another one, the great tear, if the expansion of the universe accelerates at a continuous rate and is not controlled. The universe will expand in 22 billion years. It will expand faster than the fabric of space-time can keep up. It's just going to break and I'm terrified of this for 22. billion years why are you terrified of not being here no one you know is going to be here it's just okay to be afraid of things we can't stop climate change apparently are you worried about the great tear that we are going to stop the great tear of the universe, the great platform would be that we are quite incompetent on many levels.

I wouldn't have that much hope. What about another threat to civilization here? I had the last interview with Professor Stephen Hawking, which was a memorable experience about his studies at the University of Cambridge and I asked him about the threat of artificial intelligence. This is what you say. Oh, surely artificial intelligence will be the end of us, and if not, how do we best work with it? There is a greater danger of artificial intelligence if we allow it to design itself, because then it can improve quickly and we can lose control. Now I'm reading more and more about the potential for AI to self-design. will happen, do you think there's no reason to think that won't happen?

The question is at what minute will it happen. Because the moment you become self-aware and can learn on your own, what do you learn exponentially? What did he mean by Professor Hawking? For self-design well, just consider how long you go to school to learn to read, write and do arithmetic or lately it seems like people just read or write but not arithmetic, how long does it last that you are in school for years and years and years A computer that is self-aware and has access to all the knowledge on the Internet can build on any foundation it had at the previous moment to accelerate that learning and be able to acquire all the knowledge and all the wisdom in a matter of minutes. minutes, are we boosting this?

Should we stop? Should we reach the top? There are expert people who definitely feel that way. I'm not that apocalyptic about it. I think no, we are not going to build the only machine that controls everything. but right now, if you had told someone 20 years ago that I drive a car that can steer itself and tell me where grandma's house is to avoid traffic in real time, they would say okay, back in the day of the jetsons They imagined robots as humanoid objects. walking doing tasks they weren't thinking that the car was the robot that the telescope was the robot that their coffee machine is the robot they weren't thinking that they had a robot operating the coffee machine right, the robot was driving their car so we Yes we infused AI in all areas of our lives that meet our needs, so I don't see AI becoming centralized in a way that then takes over.

Some people think Elon Musk is AI. You know, or you met him when he was only worth a hundred billion yeah, yeah, yeah, I met him when he had a big line, he says you know how to make a small fortune in space, start with a big fortune, that was a good line , but now he made a great fortune, he is doing many very interesting things. things in space, but one of the problems up there is that space is getting quite crowded with things, including elons. I mean, what is the answer to this? Yes, it is not clear and today one of the reasons I am in London is to attend a space. sustainability summit look at those two words together space sustainability uh we see these satellite trails crossing the sky they call them satellite constellations and that makes me angry because a constellation of stars that doesn't move across the sky took our word and caught them naming their satellites after this, so there are thousands of satellites in the sky creating these streaks.

How dangerous is that. Well, first, it is ugly for those who simply want to enjoy the majesty of the night sky and it also makes space commerce difficult because space fills up then and some satellites have been actively destroyed China did it first we did it second Russia did it third and okay, I didn't destroy your satellite, I destroyed one of mine, but you saw it, okay, have you been to space? no, no, you would like, I'm fine, so you know people like, uh, like jeff bezos, yeah, all these guys, so william shatner, william shatner, so if this is the classroom globe , you know how high they went, about the thickness of two dimes. nothing really and I'm an astrophysicist you're going to say it's bad I'm not where you want to go go to the moon mars beyond giving a destination that is not to boldly go where hundreds have gone before this matter professor hawking told me if he knew that he had his last day on earth everything was about to end ai or else he said he would like to be with his family playing wagner and drinking champagne what would you do wow okay literally I told you right now okay you're right , the

world

is about to end and it's happening in six hours.

What are you going to do? I would say: What can I do with my intellect and that of others to prevent the world from

ending

in six hours? But assuming you can't do it. anything no, no, no, I don't assume that, no, excuse me, okay, you have these photos of people escaping from cities that are about to be devastated by a hurricane, what are you going to do? Nobody says, why don't we touch the hurricane's cyclonic energy uses that energy to meet the city's energy needs and then the hurricane leaves, you know who thinks that way?

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics professionals, professor hawking, had this obsession with discovering what the black hole was. right, what is your obsession? What's your weird thing that you'd love to figure out that's never been solved? I want to know our equations, tell us that if you enter a black hole, time runs so that the future history of the universe you just came from unfolds to infinity and another space-time opens up in front of you, so I want a mapping of all the new space-times that black holes are providing so that everyone is basically obsessed with the same thing, black gold, well, who wouldn't be?

I find them a little black. Where are the black holes? The way kids are obsessed with the T-Rex. Every child knows a T-Rex. Yes, I think it's because it's a threat that can eat you. That has earned their respect. this book, welcome universe, absolutely fantastically fascinating, thank you, you are remarkably fascinating, it is like the original textbook that spawned a series of books, the latter is the 3D universe, there are glasses that are part of it and the objects in the universe. pop and they transform from just a picture of a planet to a world like a planet, we even show the constellations and you realize that the constellations extend into three dimensions, it's not just that I can talk to you, unfortunately, we are running out time. a play, it's a pleasure, please come back next time you're here, we'd love to have you back, great, finally talk to you, probably