A brief spoken excerpt (SPEAKER A) arguing that AI may merge with humans to create cyborgs, possibly by mid-century (e.g., around 2050). The speaker suggests cyborgs could spread rapidly if they confer survival advantages, and contrasts two futures: one where AI dictates behavior and one where AI is integrated into human thought. The tone is speculative and predictive.
In a world where the AI knows far, far, far more than us, we don't have a choice but to follow the algorithm. So there's totally a world where the AI determines our behaviors. There's also a world where the AI has merged with us, and the AI is part of our thoughts, and we are cyborgs. And I think that cyborgs will be here far closer than we think, particularly because if someone who's a cyborg has a survival advantage, then other humans will have to become cyborgs, because we're reasonably Darwinistic creatures, we care about survival advantages. And as a result, I think cyborgs are here sooner than people think. You think, like, by 2050. Are we, like, merging with tech with, like, AI by then? Yeah, I think so.
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