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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Jonathan responds to your texts and tweets, is joined in studio for all the latest science stories for Newsround and speaks to one of our two guests featured on the show. Listen and subscribe to Futureproof with Johnathan McCrea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.   You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'

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Futureproof Extra: The Science of Risk (Best of)

5 days ago - 15 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Best of Futureproof: Becoming Concious & Rare Blood Plasma

7 days ago - 33 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Extra: How soon could we see lab-grown teeth?

12 days ago - 13 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

The Science of Embalming

14 days ago - 35 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Extra: How micro-robots will help detect cancer in patients

19 days ago - 15 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

What we know (and don't know) about the cosmos

21 days ago - 41 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Futureproof Extra: The Dangers & Opportunities of Artificial Intelligence

Recently hundreds of leading technology experts, journalists, and policymakers from across the world released a statement saying that: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside pandemics and nuclear war”. But as we are just now beginning to grapple with this brave new world of generative artificial intelligence it can still be difficult to know what the future might actually hold for us, what role AI will have in our lives, and where the danger really lies. Patricia Scanlon, Ireland’s AI ambassador, and founder of Dublin-based speech recognition tech company SoapBox Labs joins Jonathan to discuss.