{"id":34581,"date":"2017-02-15T07:44:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T15:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/why-elon-musks-transhumanism-claims-may-not-be-that-far-fetched"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:28:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:28:12","slug":"why-elon-musks-transhumanism-claims-may-not-be-that-far-fetched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/why-elon-musks-transhumanism-claims-may-not-be-that-far-fetched","title":{"rendered":"Why Elon Musk\u2019s transhumanism claims may not be that far-fetched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-elon-musks-transhumanism-claims-may-not-be-that-far-fetched.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Excellent article in Wired this morning. My novel \u201cThe Transhumanist Wager\u201d quoted quite a bit to add context to some of Elon Musk\u2019s statements: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/elon-musk-humans-must-become-cyborgs\">http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/elon-musk-humans-must-become-cyborgs<\/a> #transhumanism<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The Tesla and SpaceX founder warned that a future where AI is smarter than us will be \u2018dangerous\u2019 and we must all become cyborgs to survive.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/elon-musk-humans-must-become-cyborgs\">http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/elon-musk-humans-must-become-cyborgs<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent article in Wired this morning. My novel \u201cThe Transhumanist Wager\u201d quoted quite a bit to add context to some of Elon Musk\u2019s statements: http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/elon-musk-humans-must-become-cyborgs #transhumanism The Tesla and SpaceX founder warned that a future where AI is smarter than us will be \u2018dangerous\u2019 and we must all become cyborgs to survive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,2019,6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34581","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\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34581"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56716,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34581\/revisions\/56716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}