In February 2011, IBM’s Watson had just beaten two human champions at Jeopardy, and most people filed it under party trick.

A few days later, I sat down with Prof. Kevin Warwick for the second time. He had already run a wire into the median nerve of his own left arm and sent a signal from his nervous system straight into his wife’s. The press called him an eccentric. A few of his colleagues used a less generous word.

So I asked him where the line between genius and madness actually sits. We also got into the magnetic implants and sensory substitution devices his students were building, the trouble his rat-brain-cell robot kept running into, and why Alan Turing was owed far more than Britain ever gave him.

Fifteen years on, #BCI implants have moved from stunt to clinical trial, #AI writes the code that writes the code, and the open question is no longer whether we merge with our machines. It is on whose terms, and who gets a vote.

Kevin’s answer back in 2011 was three words: be/come the #cyborg.

Prophecy or warning? Watch it and tell me which one you hear.

Full interview here: [ https://snglrty.co/4ojMYfw](https://snglrty.co/4ojMYfw)

Want to hear Kevin Warwick on genius and madness, implant technology, Alan Turing, IBM’s Watson and the Borg? Check out his 2nd interview for www.SingularityWeblog.com