{"id":241428,"date":"2026-07-23T12:02:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/dan-barry-dont-let-anyone-tell-you-that-you-cant-reach-your-dreams"},"modified":"2026-07-23T12:02:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:02:55","slug":"dan-barry-dont-let-anyone-tell-you-that-you-cant-reach-your-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/dan-barry-dont-let-anyone-tell-you-that-you-cant-reach-your-dreams","title":{"rendered":"Dan Barry: Don\u2019t Let Anyone Tell You That You Can\u2019t Reach Your Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For fifteen years, NASA told Dan Barry no.<\/p>\n

He kept applying. Then he flew three shuttle missions, walked in space four times, and made two trips to the International Space Station. On the mission that didn\u2019t go there, he was outside the orbiter rehearsing how to build it.<\/p>\n

In 2011, I ambushed him with a camera at Singularity University and got 20 minutes.<\/p>\n

Dan is not just an astronaut. He holds a doctorate in electrical engineering from Princeton and a doctorate in medicine from Miami, and he left NASA in 2005 to build #robotics for people with disabilities. So when our conversation turned to #ArtificialIntelligence, and specifically to what happens when we arm it, he was not speculating. He was describing machines he understood from the inside.<\/p>\n

Armed drones were already flying in 2011. What nobody had done yet was hand the machine the decision to fire. Fifteen years on, that line is thinner than most people realize.<\/p>\n

We also got into Asimov\u2019s three laws, the Turing test, his 109<\/sup> project to improve a billion lives in a decade, and whether we survive the #Singularity at all.<\/p>\n

Continue reading \u201cDan Barry: Don\u2019t Let Anyone Tell You That You Can\u2019t Reach Your Dreams\u201d | ><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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