Humans and machines will merge?

For the first time, a conference on global disaster risks was organized with the participation of many leading experts in the world. The conference opened on July 17, at Oxford University (England).

On the last day of the Conference, delegates will focus on discussing the potential dangers of emerging technologies such as biotechnology, nanotechnology, robotic technology ., which if used for goals that are not clear, can cause immeasurable consequences for humanity.

"Any entity that is smarter than humans will be very violent. If we handle it wrongly, it can have consequences that threaten human survival," said Dr. Nick Bostrom, director of the Institute of Similarities. Humanity of Oxford University, the conference organizer, said that according to Bostrom, the category will enter an era in which biotechnology, molecular nanotechnology, artificial intelligence and other New generation cognitive tools will be applied to amplify people's intellectual, physical, and even emotional abilities, then a post-human life form will emerge with possessed individuals. skills and qualities that are so superior that they cannot be called human.

Whether humans will merge with machines at the end of the 21st century.(Photo: CNN )

'We are about to start applying science and technology not only to control the world around us but also to control the biology of our own bodies', Bostrom predicts. 'The changes will take place faster and more deeply than what evolution has brought for thousands of years.' Although Bostrom did not predict the time of the biotech revolution, it could take 8 or 200 years to finish. Other experts say that the fundamental transition period will take place more quickly, possibly in two decades.

'Things will happen faster than we envision,' said the famous futurist Ray Kurzwei. In the 1980s, Kurzwei predicted the beginning of the 21st century, the world will invent a handheld device that allows blind people to read text wherever and whenever. Such a device appeared earlier this year. He also predicted that the Internet would flourish in the 1990s. And now, Kurzwei predicts the emergence of what he calls ' the result of the unity of his physical and biological thinking. people with technology, leading to a world still belongs to people but with biologically superior individuals , referred to as Singularity (extraordinary technology). According to his prediction, by the 2030s, people will become more abiotic, able to upload their intelligence to the Internet, live in many virtual worlds and even escape the rule of birth - old - disease - try. By the next decade (2040), artificial intelligence will be billions of times superior to human intelligence.

Future home learner Ray Kurzwei.(Photo: DailyTech)

The trend towards the unity of people and machines, according to Kurzwei, has emerged and is most noticeable in the field of biotechnology. With a deeper understanding of the genetic processes that govern life, scientists are able to re-establish the biological activity of the human body through pharmaceuticals that control enzymes and new gene therapies. , RNA interference techniques or gene disabling. The biotech revolution will "birth" at least one thousand new drugs, be able to treat diseases, from slowing down the aging process to repelling incurable diseases like heart disease and cancer. Dr. Kurzwei predicts.

By 2020, according to Kurzwei, humanity will experience the second revolution in the field of nanotechnology. Scientists have begun testing the first generation nano robots that can cure diabetes and heal spinal injuries in mice. Currently, a researcher is developing a red blood cell robot, which, if injected into a blood vessel, will allow people to sprint for 15 minutes without breathing or sitting at the bottom of the pool for hours. Many other scientists are making nanoparticles that can locate and suppress cancer tumors.

The last revolution led to the creation of 'extraordinary technology' that will create artificial intelligence or super intelligence, which according to Kurzwei, is capable of resolving many of the problems that people face as lips school life degradation, poverty and disease. Kurzwei argues that the emergence of many extremely advanced technologies and the ability to merge these new technologies with humans will be a 'double-edged sword' for the future of humanity.