{"id":54355,"date":"2017-04-24T21:42:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/elon-musk-wants-to-enhance-us-as-superhuman-cyborgs-to-deal-with-superintelligent-ai"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:04:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:04:57","slug":"elon-musk-wants-to-enhance-us-as-superhuman-cyborgs-to-deal-with-superintelligent-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/elon-musk-wants-to-enhance-us-as-superhuman-cyborgs-to-deal-with-superintelligent-ai","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk wants to enhance us as superhuman cyborgs to deal with superintelligent AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-wants-to-enhance-us-as-superhuman-cyborgs-to-deal-with-superintelligent-ai2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" class=\"\" title=\"Neuralink logo\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/logo.elon-musk-wants-to-enhance-us-as-superhuman-cyborgs-to-deal-with-superintelligent-ai.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"153\"><b><center>(credit: Neuralink Corp.)<\/center><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s the year 2021. A quadriplegic patient has just had one million \u201cneural lace\u201d microparticles injected into her brain, the world\u2019s first human with <\/em><em>an internet communication system<\/em> <em>using a wireless implanted brain-mind interface \u2014 and empowering her as the first superhuman cyborg. \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No, this is not a science-fiction movie plot. It\u2019s the actual first public step \u2014 just four years from now \u2014 in Tesla CEO Elon Musk\u2019s business plan for his latest new venture, <a href=\"https:\/\/neuralink.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Neuralink<\/a>. It\u2019s now explained for the first time on Tim Urban\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/waitbutwhy.com\/2017\/04\/neuralink.html\"><em>WaitButWhy<\/em> blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/elon-musk-wants-to-enhance-us-as-superhuman-cyborgs-to-deal-with-superintelligent-ai\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/elon-musk-wants-to-enhance-us-as-s...lligent-ai<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(credit: Neuralink Corp.) It\u2019s the year 2021. A quadriplegic patient has just had one million \u201cneural lace\u201d microparticles injected into her brain, the world\u2019s first human with an internet communication system using a wireless implanted brain-mind interface \u2014 and empowering her as the first superhuman cyborg. \u2026 No, this is not a science-fiction movie plot. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,1499,2019,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-cyborgs","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54355","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56376,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54355\/revisions\/56376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}