{"id":195010,"date":"2024-08-23T05:30:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T10:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/superintelligence-superlongevity-and-superhappiness-how-billionaire-transhumanists-want-to-converge-humanity-and-artificial-intelligence"},"modified":"2024-08-23T05:30:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T10:30:31","slug":"superintelligence-superlongevity-and-superhappiness-how-billionaire-transhumanists-want-to-converge-humanity-and-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/superintelligence-superlongevity-and-superhappiness-how-billionaire-transhumanists-want-to-converge-humanity-and-artificial-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"Superintelligence, superlongevity and superhappiness: How billionaire transhumanists want to converge humanity and artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/superintelligence-superlongevity-and-superhappiness-how-billionaire-transhumanists-want-to-converge-humanity-and-artificial-intelligence.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>M any prominent people in the tech industry have talked about the increasing convergence between humans and machines in coming decades. For example, Elon Musk has reportedly said he wants humans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/2019\/7\/17\/20697812\/elon-musk-neuralink-ai-brain-implant-thread-robot\">to merge with AI<\/a> \u201cto achieve a symbiosis with artificial intelligence\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/neuralink.com\/\">His company Neuralink<\/a> aims to facilitate this convergence so that humans won\u2019t be \u201cleft behind\u201d as technology advances in the future. While people with disabilities would be near-term recipients of these innovations, some believe technologies like this could be used to enhance abilities in everyone.<\/p>\n<p>These aims are inspired by an idea called transhumanism, the belief that we should use science and technology to radically enhance human capabilities and seek to direct our own evolutionary path. Disease, aging and death are all realities transhumanists wish to end, alongside dramatically increasing our cognitive, emotional and physical capacities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M any prominent people in the tech industry have talked about the increasing convergence between humans and machines in coming decades. For example, Elon Musk has reportedly said he wants humans to merge with AI \u201cto achieve a symbiosis with artificial intelligence\u201d His company Neuralink aims to facilitate this convergence so that humans won\u2019t be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2019,269,6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-elon-musk","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195010","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}