It’s time for a serious conversation about
Brain-Computer Interfaces.

"As our WORLDS become smarter and get to know us better and better, it becomes harder and harder to say where the world stops and the person begins,” writes Andy Clark, a prominent cognitive scientist at the University of Sussex.  He calls us "natural-born cyborgs,” constantly evolving through our interactions with cognitive technologies.

The “extended minds” of our computers rapidly are becoming more human-like. This trend is exponential, says Ray Kurzweil, one of the world’s leading inventors, thinkers, and futurists.

By 2045, he says, we’ll have computer chips so small they can be distributed THROUGHOUT OUR NEOCORTICES via our capillaries.

Elon Musk is takinG A DIFFERENT ROUTE, DRILLING INTO THE SKULL. THEN HE implantS 1,250 tiny electrodes in the neocortex to monitor what’s happening and send signals to an “AI” that executes them as speech or movement. He calls it Telepathy.

Musk aims to put telepathy into the brains of 22,000 people by 2030. He wants to achieve a symbiosis between the brain and AI so that we’ll all be able to compete with AI-empowered robots.

Are we ready to become full-fledged cyborgs?

should we be warning our children and grand-children that this is the future that’s speeding toward them?

Is there anything we can be doing today to increase the chances that Ai will be of greater good to humanity than harm?

such are the questions we’re exploring with experts.

WRITTEN, PRODUCED, AND PUBLISHED BY:

Dan Forbush
Affiliated with but not representing the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Saratoga Springs

Ron Roth
Affiliated with but not representing the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Boca Raton

Elias Kruger
AI and Faith

Peter Bowden
Meaning Spark Labs