{"id":22655,"date":"2026-04-11T20:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T18:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/brian-cox-we-dont-know-how-powerful-ai-is-going-to-become-its-both-exciting-and-potentially-a-problem\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T20:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T18:37:17","slug":"brian-cox-we-dont-know-how-powerful-ai-is-going-to-become-its-both-exciting-and-potentially-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/brian-cox-we-dont-know-how-powerful-ai-is-going-to-become-its-both-exciting-and-potentially-a-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Cox: \u2018We don\u2019t know how powerful AI is going to become \u2013 it\u2019s both exciting and potentially a problem\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The physicist, BBC presenter and author on snowflakes, art v science and the time Paul McCartney quizzed him about one of Saturn\u2019s moons<\/p>\n

What is the inspiration behind your latest live show, Emergence?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It came from a book that I\u2019ve loved for years: The Six-Cornered Snowflake by Johannes Kepler. Kepler is most famous for his laws of planetary motion<\/a> in and around 1610, but he wrote this little book about New Year\u2019s Eve in 1609, when he was walking across the Charles Bridge in Prague in a snowstorm. He was going to his benefactor\u2019s house and he hadn\u2019t bought him a present. So he writes this beautiful little book about looking at the snowflakes landing on his arm and thinking about the symmetry of them and asking, why are they six-sided?<\/p>\n

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\nThe physicist, BBC presenter and author on snowflakes, art v science and the time Paul McCartney quizzed him about one of Saturn\u2019s moons
\nWhat is the inspiration behind your latest live show, Emergence?
\nIt came from a book that I\u2019ve loved for years: The Six-Cornered Snowflake by Johannes Kepler. Kepler is most famous for his laws of planetary motion in and around 1610, but he wrote this little book about New Year\u2019s Eve in 1609, when he was walking across the Charles Bridge in Prague in a snowstorm. He was going to his benefactor\u2019s house and he hadn\u2019t bought him a present. So he writes this beautiful little book about looking at the snowflakes landing on his arm and thinking about the symmetry of them and asking, why are they six-sided? Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The physicist, BBC presenter and author on snowflakes, art v science and the time Paul McCartney quizzed him about one of Saturn\u2019s moons What is the inspiration behind your latest live show, Emergence? It came from a book that I\u2019ve loved for years: The Six-Cornered Snowflake by Johannes Kepler. Kepler is most famous for his …<\/p>\n

Brian Cox: \u2018We don\u2019t know how powerful AI is going to become \u2013 it\u2019s both exciting and potentially a problem\u2019<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22655"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}