Despite risks and downsides of new technologies, the enormous amounts of good they can create (e.g., health improvements, cancer treatment) should be acknowledged, and societies should balance optimism about benefits with realism about risks rather than defaulting to pessimism.

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Mark Rutte

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yes we have to acknowledge the risks in the downsides of these new technologies but at the same time for the for our societies to come along let's also acknowledge the enormous amount of good this can create in terms of our health cancer is the many things I mentioned earlier

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Yuval Noah Harari: How to Survive the 21st Century- Davos 2020Yuval Noah Harari
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