I would be curious to see Vitalik expanding on the interventions we can pursue in practice to go down the upper path. For readersâ context, here is the context before the above:
But if we want to extrapolate this idea of human-AI cooperation further, we get to more radical conclusions. Unless we create a world government powerful enough to detect and stop every small group of people hacking on individual GPUs with laptops, someone is going to create a superintelligent AI eventuallyâone that can think a thousand times faster than we canâand no combination of humans using tools with their hands is going to be able to hold its own against that. And so we need to take this idea of human-computer cooperation much deeper and further.
A first natural step is brain-computer interfaces. Brain-computer interfaces can give humans much more direct access to more-and-more powerful forms of computation and cognition, reducing the two-way communication loop between man and machine from seconds to milliseconds. This would also greatly reduce the âmental effortâ cost to getting a computer to help you gather facts, give suggestions or execute on a plan.
Later stages of such a roadmap admittedly get weird. In addition to brain-computer interfaces, there are various paths to improving our brains directly through innovations in biology. An eventual further step, which merges both paths, may involve uploading our minds to run on computers directly. This would also be the ultimate d/âacc for physical security: protecting ourselves from harm would no longer be a challenging problem of protecting inevitably-squishy human bodies, but rather a much simpler problem of making data backups.
Hi Rob,
I would be curious to see Vitalik expanding on the interventions we can pursue in practice to go down the upper path. For readersâ context, here is the context before the above: