{"id":98458,"date":"2019-11-13T12:02:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T20:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/elon-musk-says-neuralink-could-bring-a-i-superintelligence-to-the-brain"},"modified":"2019-11-13T12:02:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T20:02:58","slug":"elon-musk-says-neuralink-could-bring-a-i-superintelligence-to-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/elon-musk-says-neuralink-could-bring-a-i-superintelligence-to-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says Neuralink could bring A.I. \u2018superintelligence\u2019 to the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-says-neuralink-could-bring-a-i-superintelligence-to-the-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beyond cortical and limbic systems, the company Neuralink could add a third layer of digital superintelligence to humans and avoid artificial intelligence enslavement, its founder Elon Musk claimed Tuesday. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/57778-neuralink-6-things-we-learned-from-elon-musk-s-brain-powered-reveal\">brain-computer linkup firm<\/a> is working to treat medical conditions using its implanted chip as early as next year, but during a podcast appearance, Musk reiterated his belief that the technology could avoid some of the worst consequences of advanced machines.<\/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\/smK9dgdTl40?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important that Neuralink solves this problem sooner rather than later, because the point at which we have digital superintelligence, that\u2019s when we pass the singularity and things become just very uncertain,\u201d Musk said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=smK9dgdTl40\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">during an interview<\/a> with MIT professor Lex Fridman.<\/p>\n<p>Musk was keen to note that the singularity, a hypothesized point where machines grow so advanced that humanity slips into an irreversible change, may not necessarily be good or bad. He did state, however, that \u201cthings become extremely unstable\u201d after that point, which means Neuralink would need to achieve its human-brain linkup either before or not long after \u201cto minimize the existential risk for humanity and consciousness as we know it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond cortical and limbic systems, the company Neuralink could add a third layer of digital superintelligence to humans and avoid artificial intelligence enslavement, its founder Elon Musk claimed Tuesday. The brain-computer linkup firm is working to treat medical conditions using its implanted chip as early as next year, but during a podcast appearance, Musk reiterated [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2019,12,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-elon-musk","category-existential-risks","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98458","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}