{"id":72232,"date":"2017-08-29T07:02:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T14:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/what-would-happen-if-we-upload-our-brains-to-computers"},"modified":"2017-08-29T07:02:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T14:02:28","slug":"what-would-happen-if-we-upload-our-brains-to-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/what-would-happen-if-we-upload-our-brains-to-computers","title":{"rendered":"What would happen if we upload our brains to computers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-would-happen-if-we-upload-our-brains-to-computers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meet the \u201cems\u201d \u2014 machines that emulate human brains and can think, feel and work just like the brains they\u2019re copied from. Futurist and social scientist Robin Hanson describes a possible future when ems take over the global economy, running on superfast computers and copying themselves to multitask, leaving humans with only one choice: to retire, forever. Glimpse a strange future as Hanson describes what could happen if robots ruled the earth.<\/p>\n<p>About the speaker.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/robin_hanson_what_would_happen_if_we_upload_our_brains_to_computers\">https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/robin_hanson_what_would_happen_if_..._computers<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the \u201cems\u201d \u2014 machines that emulate human brains and can think, feel and work just like the brains they\u2019re copied from. Futurist and social scientist Robin Hanson describes a possible future when ems take over the global economy, running on superfast computers and copying themselves to multitask, leaving humans with only one choice: to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72232","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\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}