Neuralink, Brain Interfaces, and the Risk of AI Superintelligence

There's a, I think, tremendous amount of good

that Neuralink can do in solving

critical damage to the brain or the spinal cord.

There's a lot that can be done to improve quality of life of

individuals, and that will be-- those will be steps along the way.

And then ultimately,

it's intended to address the, or, uh, the risk, the existential risk associated

with,

uh, digital super intelligence. Um, like, we will not be able to th-

be smarter than a, a, a s-

a digital supercomputer. Um, so therefore, if you cannot beat them, join

them.

And at least we want to have that option.

So you, you have hope that Neuralink will be able to be a kind

of,

um, connection to allow us to, to merge, to

ride the wave of the improving, uh, AI systems?

I think the chance is above zero percent.

So it's non-zero.

Yes.

There's a chance, and that's, uh-

So what I'm s-- Have you seen Dumb and Dumber?

Yes. Yes.

So I'm saying there's a chance.

He's saying one in a billion or one in a million, whatever it

was in Dumb and

Dumber.

You know, it went from maybe one in a million to

improving.

Maybe it'll be one in a thousand and then one in a hundred,

then one in ten.

Depends on the rate of improvement of Neuralink and how fast

we're able to do--

make progress, you know?

Well, I've talked to a few folks here.

They're quite brilliant engineers, so I'm, I'm excited.

It, it's important that Neuralink solve this problem sooner

rather than later

because the point at which we have digital super intelligence,

that's when we pass

singularity and, and things become just very uncertain.

It doesn't mean that they're necessarily bad or good, but the point at which we

pass singularity, things become extremely unstable.

So we want to have a human brain interface

before the singularity, or at least not long after it,

to minimize existential risk for humanity and consciousness as we know it.