{"id":192852,"date":"2024-07-12T13:27:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T18:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/humans-could-forge-a-hybrid-consciousness-by-merging-with-artificial-life-oxford-scientists-say"},"modified":"2024-07-12T13:27:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T18:27:35","slug":"humans-could-forge-a-hybrid-consciousness-by-merging-with-artificial-life-oxford-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/humans-could-forge-a-hybrid-consciousness-by-merging-with-artificial-life-oxford-scientists-say","title":{"rendered":"Humans Could Forge a Hybrid Consciousness by Merging With Artificial Life, Oxford Scientists Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z7o39CzHgug?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>WITH THE IDEA OF CONSCIOUS DIGITAL MINDS<\/strong> on the horizon, it could be that humans are the proverbial frog in a boiling pot of water, and it\u2019s only been a few years since things have started to feel a bit steamy. But as Bostrom argues in his book, this might be a boiling pot we <em>don\u2019t<\/em> want to jump out of.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to rethink what it means to be human in such a world where AI has taken care of all the practical tasks and we have a kind of a solved world,\u201d Bostrom says. \u201cYou might have a much more radical form of automation \u2026 where maybe working for money at all becomes completely unnecessary because AI and robots can do everything better than we can do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Bostrom says this is really only one layer of the philosophical onion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WITH THE IDEA OF CONSCIOUS DIGITAL MINDS on the horizon, it could be that humans are the proverbial frog in a boiling pot of water, and it\u2019s only been a few years since things have started to feel a bit steamy. But as Bostrom argues in his book, this might be a boiling pot we [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192852","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}