Drinks in hand, customers at a London bar attend a sold-out talk on AI and the future during an annual event that takes public science discussions to pubs and cafes around the world. The Pint of Science Festival, now in its twelth year, has expanded to more than 25 countries with more than 450 events in the UK this year. "This opens up something that I would normally not go out of my way to research by myself" says Botsant Muchengwa, an audience member.
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00:00Collectively fail to protect the very planet of those muses, those flowers and those birds.
00:05So the goal of this evening's event is to make science accessible.
00:08Essentially bring it away from the research institutes, away from the scientists and the policy makers
00:13to a conversation that the average person can engage in because these kind of topics affect everyone right now.
00:20Humanity, even if it's a new wave of humanity in Mars.
00:24They've been instrumental in my journey coming here, but they've also been instrumental in...
00:34This opens up something that I would normally not go out of my way to research by myself.
00:39It opens me up to something that I can learn as well.
00:43So yeah, I think it's definitely a very accessible way of learning something new.
00:48Scientists have a habit of lots of dry material before the fun starts.
00:54So this is a more open-minded approach to discussion of science ideas.
01:00...is Joe's!
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01:10They've played well early on and then we see the Belgian exploitation of the Congo and then we have...