Farmers, Drones, Microplastics & AI Ethics: Environmental Impacts

Agriculture and Technological Change

The researcher believed that the minds of the farmers were changing, that they were adapting.

The existing technology has limited scientists for many years.

If people had not studied this, then there wouldn't have been any alternatives.

Drone Operations and Wetland Community

The drone will be operated by Rebecca from Rothera Base in Antarctica.

Have all members of the wetland community had to cooperate?

Scientific instruments, which include radar and cameras, are loaded in the back of the drone.

Clubs, Sport Travel and City Action

Clubs can always do some things.

Will the city not have released a social media action plan to hold social media companies accountable?

New York City Mayor Adams said that football clubs had to lead by example, regardless of what position we as individuals held.

Loads of planes are taken or a new shirt is worn every game.

If you had played on the other side of Europe, planes would have been needed for competition to function.

Adams said he's increasingly concerned. He announced the action plan.

Microplastics, Oil Spills and Neuralink

Cristóbal López said that those little balls of plastic were an environmental problem because fish confused them with fish eggs and ate them and they entered the food chain.

An oil spill from the Prestige tanker devastated Galicia's marine coastline in 2002.

Had the spill been first reported to authorities on 13 December?

Pellets, which can break down into even smaller microplastic, represent a danger for marine and human life.

If fishermen had caught fish that had consumed microplastic, we would have eaten that microplastic.

Will Neuralink's goal not be to create a brain-computer interface?

Voice Synthesis, Language and Ethics

They had normalized that language, but if you or we stopped to think about it, it was a bit racist.

Mr Jacob produced credible copies of voices which were based on only small snippets of audio pulled from YouTube.

In its marketing it won't suggest potential uses include call centres and surveys.

They made the calls using a freely available commercial platform.

The term l'Arabe would be often used to refer to corner shops run by people with Maghreb heritage.

Ben Jacob hadn't been using the tech as an example and to show the capability of the new generation of systems.

Film Questions and Personal Achievement

As a film, all kinds of questions are raised by Netflix's You People.

Thanks to his hard training, he improved his strength and endurance dramatically.