Born, not Made

A new season begins. This week, the question shifts. For ten episodes, we talked about artificial intelligence and the mind ,creativity, decision-making, what it means to think. That conversation isn't over. But today something changes. Because AI was always a challenge to the mind. What's arriving now is a challenge to the body. A factory opened in China last month. 14,000 square meters. It manufactures robots. Who builds them? Other robots. Robots building robots , not in a movie, not in a forecast. On the factory floor, right now. Toyota is deploying 400,000 humanoid robots globally. Goldman Sachs says 6.5 million humanoid robots will be at work by 2035. And so we arrive, again, at the oldest question: What makes a human being human?