Two speakers debate whether humans will merge with AI through brain-computer interfaces or be replaced by it. Speaker B argues the merge scenario is most plausible, creating a symbiotic future rather than human obsolescence.
Do you think that it's likely that we will merge somehow or another with this sort of technology and it'll augment what we are now? Or do you think it will replace us?
Well, that's the scenario. The merge scenario with AI is the one that seems like probably the best.
Like for us?
Yes. Like if you can't beat it, join it. That's— Yeah, you know, um, so from a long-term existential standpoint, that's like the purpose of Neuralink, is to create a high-bandwidth interface to the brain such that we can be symbiotic with AI, because we have a bandwidth problem. You just can't communicate through fingers, it's too slow.