GZERO WORLD WITH IAN BREMMER: The New Humans

By Jennifer Robinson / Web Producer

Published December 4, 2023 at 12:42 PM PST

Richard Jopson Photography. Courtesy of American Public Television

Host Ian Bremmer

Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App

In the past few years we’ve seen an explosion in biotech tools like CRISPR gene editing and AI-powered implants that are helping eradicate disease, improve lives, and transform our understanding of human life. But with benefits, come major risks. On this episode, Ian Bremmer sits down with Siddhartha Mukherjee to discuss how these new tools are changing medical science and creating a generation of "new humans.

GZERO WORLD WITH IAN BREMMER: The New Humans

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In the past decade, we’ve seen an explosion in medical and biotechnologies like gene editing with CRISPR, synthetic organs, cloning, and AI-powered prosthetics that are helping to eradicate disease, improve the human condition, and enhance our brain power. These developments have radically transformed our understanding of the human body and what we thought was possible. But like most new tech, there’s also potential for misuse, privacy concerns, and ethical implications. Gene editing can cure debilitating diseases but also lead to designer babies. AI learning algorithms can power neural implants but also potentially create new chemical weapons. Ian Bremmer delves into that tension on the GZERO World Podcast with Siddhartha Mukherjee, a physician and biologist whose new book, “The Song of the Cell,” explores the science, history, and technology behind what he calls “the new humans.”

GZERO WORLD WITH IAN BREMMER is a public affairs series built for our disorienting time, when the world order that has united much of the globe since the end of World War II is fraying. Host and renowned political scientist Ian Bremmer sits down each week with world leaders, noted experts, and newsmakers from all sides of the political spectrum for a compelling discussion of recent events in global politics.

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GZERO WORLD WITH IAN BREMMER: The New Humans

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