TO BE HOSTED IN ZOOM AND LIVESTREAMED ON AI AND THE HUMAN Most Likely Date: Sometime in November, 2022
INTRODUCTION
Below are titles that Kevin LaGrandeur has provided as background for the conversation we'll have whenever we can schedule it on AI and the Human.
To engage our UU audience, we point to three mind/machine interfaces already in development that are easy to imagine rapidly evolving:
ELON MUSK'S WHOLE-BRAIN INTERFACE WITH AI. In this scenario, Musk's current version of "neural lace" evolves first into a cure for those with paralysis and then a direct connection to AI that he sees coming.
JACK GALLANT'S GENERAL-PURPOSE THOUGHT DECODER. This will be a "thinking hat" that sits on top of our skulls coupled with video-recording and other sensors that will enable us to record everything we see, hear, and think, and thereby ultimately create an exhaustive inventory of our minds.
These are the questions you've indicated you're prepared to answer:
1. As Elon Musk, Jack Gallant and others take us into the new frontier of human consciousness they're creating by integrating the brain with AI, is there any quality of human nature we should consider sacrosanct and essential to preserve?
2. What's the simplest way to describe the phenomenon of "reverse mimesis"? Should we consider reverse mimesis to be a natural force in evolution? A biological law?
3. What aspects of AI development make you most hopeful?
4. What potentials of AI most concern you -- and should concern all of us?
5. Is there really any way to regulate the development of the brain/computer interface?
6. Is "the Singularity," however you might define it, inevitable? How do you define it?
7. Have you thought of ways you would reengineer your operating system if offered the technologh to do so? Ways we might reengineer everyone's operating system to improve the human condition?
8. Do we have a right to privacy of thought? If so, how would you define it?
9. How did you come to AI and transhumanism as a subject of interest?
10. How do you define transhumanism? Do you consider yourself a transhumanist?