{"id":146161,"date":"2022-09-12T07:22:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T12:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/elon-musk-suggests-that-a-brain-parasite-is-forcing-humans-to-create-superhuman-ai"},"modified":"2022-09-12T07:22:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T12:22:37","slug":"elon-musk-suggests-that-a-brain-parasite-is-forcing-humans-to-create-superhuman-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/elon-musk-suggests-that-a-brain-parasite-is-forcing-humans-to-create-superhuman-ai","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Suggests That a Brain Parasite Is Forcing Humans to Create Superhuman AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-suggests-that-a-brain-parasite-is-forcing-humans-to-create-superhuman-ai2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk tweeted a fascinating \u2014 and frankly unsettling \u2014 theory last night about how a brain parasite might be forcing all humans to create advanced AI.<\/p>\n<p>The Tesla CEO was responding to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/animals\/article\/mind-controlling-parasite-makes-hyena-cubs-more-reckless-around-lions?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=social::src=twitter::cmp=editorial::add=tw20210701animals-parasitehyenacubs&sf247275931=1\" class=\"\">a story<\/a> from <i>National Geographic<\/i> about how toxoplasmosis, a common parasite often found in cats, seems to be causing hyenas to be reckless around predators such as lions. In a staggering and perhaps facetious leap of logic, Musk suggested that the parasite is actually what\u2019s causing humans to create advanced artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToxoplasmosis infects rats, then cats, then humans who make cat videos,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1411070396162449408\" class=\"\"> Musk tweeted on Friday<\/a>. \u201cAI trains achieves superhuman intelligence training on Internet cat videos, thus making toxoplasmosis the true arbiter of our destiny.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk tweeted a fascinating \u2014 and frankly unsettling \u2014 theory last night about how a brain parasite might be forcing all humans to create advanced AI. The Tesla CEO was responding to a story from National Geographic about how toxoplasmosis, a common parasite often found in cats, seems to be causing hyenas to be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}