# Is humanity smart enough to survive itself?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2022
- Speaker: Jeanette Winterson
- Year: 2022
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: History
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/jeanette_winterson_is_humanity_smart_enough_to_survive_itself)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

With quick wit and sharp insight, writer Jeanette Winterson lays out a vision of the future where human and machine intelligence meld -- forming what she calls "alternative intelligence" -- and takes a philosophical look at our species, asking: Are we smart enough to survive how smart we are? (Followed by a Q&A with TED's head of curation Helen Walters)

## Lectures

1. [Is humanity smart enough to survive itself?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/jeanette_winterson_is_humanity_smart_enough_to_survive_itself/25469e465ba5), 19 min (TED's player)