Boris Johnson's bizarre speech on technology at the UN in 2019: AI robots, nanorobots, etc.

On September 24, 2019 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave a weird speech at the United Nations concerning the future of technology.

"...but no-one can ignore a gathering force that is reshaping the future of every member of this Assembly.There has been nothing like it in history.
When I think of the great scientific revolutions of the past - print, the steam engine, aviation, the atomic age - I think of new tools that we acquired but over which we - the human race - had the advantage,
which we controlled.

That is not necessarily the case in the digital age.

You may keep secrets from your friends, from your parents, your children, your doctor – even your personal trainer – but it takes real effort to conceal your thoughts from Google. And if that is true today, in future there may be nowhere to hide.

AI - what will it mean? Helpful robots washing and caring for an ageing population, or pink eyed terminators sent back from the future to cull the human race?

Will nanotechnology help us to beat disease, or will it leave tiny robots to replicate in the crevices of our cells? Today, nanotechnology is revolutionizing medicine by designing robots a fraction of the size of a red blood cell, capable of swimming through our bodies, dispensing medicine and attacking malignant cells like some Star Wars armada.

Month by month, vital decisions are being taken in academic committees, company boardrooms and industry standards groups. They are writing the rulebooks of the future, making ethical judgements, choosing what will or will not be rendered possible. Together, we need to ensure that new advances reflect our values by design.

We need to find the right balance between freedom and control; between innovation and regulation; between private enterprise and government oversight. We must insist that the ethical judgements inherent in the design of new technology are transparent to all. And we must make our voices heard more loudly in the standards bodies that write the rules..."

~ Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 2019