I think we're very close to comprehending ourselves as a kind of massive hive, obviously with different parts. And maybe we interlace through space -- making a connection across the world because of our interests. I think it already makes sense for us to talk about the community of Cognitive Behavioral Therapists, for instance, or the community on Black Twitter, or many other things like that as widely dispersed consciousnesses. And we already understand ourselves kind of as group actors. And the more that we're just sort of endpoints in a conversation that way through a network, we will move into much more of a hive kind of understanding, especially when we're on Twitter with a mix of humans and non-humans who are all talking. I think probably a sort of hybrid hive mind is going to be one of the nearest results, where companies have their human [employees] working alongside [AI] workers, and they all have common goals, and they share information and they go to each other when they need to, and they move as with a corporate entity.
One thing that people have to worry about joining forces with AI is [that they are] learning from everything we do, and it's learning much faster [than we are] and it's really not forgetting very much. And it doesn't have the same kind of ego that we do at the workplace. And so, you know, I think that it's likely the case that they will be better at a lot of stuff in the context of things that matter at work and in school lives. And we're just going to have to deal with that.
Hawkins:
I'm fascinated by Brain-Machine-Interfaces and the way the transfers work, in devices such as Synchron's device that allows paraplegics to think and browse the Internet and send email messages, and, as Synchron delights in telling us, shop online. There is a reader implant that takes and translates electrochemical brainwaves to signals that a Bluetooth device then communicates to, say, a laptop computer, and then sends that cluster of electricity on the wire to other parts of the world. This transformation of electricity has astonishing potential for good -- Elon Musk looks to the day when such devices will make us virtually telepathic -- but it also clearly has a dystopian implication. Where do you weigh in?
Leib:
Nobody's putting a chip in my brain. I'm still making payments on it, I at least have to pay it off first. I'm such a big fan of the Netflix series Black Mirror that I'm so scared of any implants at all. Right. You know, any thinking sort of implants. If we know enough about the brain to start harvesting its electrical signals, like directly, then how do you censor your own thoughts that way? That would be horrible. It's like those more magical scenarios where you can read people's thoughts around you, but you can't turn it off. That's what I would imagine we would end up with.
On the other hand, though, I'm sure a lot of people would like to play Candy Crush without touching it over and over and over. Right? And that might be a really simple and relaxing alteration that we can make for ourselves. So, I would guess that I would be interested in that so long as the signals from whatever I'm connected to don't make it directly back into my brain. I've never had to have any electrodes put on my brain or anything like that. And so. Wow. I mean, I can't believe that we're so close to that.
John Hawkins - An Interview with Robert Leib, Exoanthropologist
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