“AI is a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization.”
DR LUDD // 001
They want to take your labor and then your life
DR LUDD
Check out these harsh lyrics
“AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world.”
SAM ALTMAN
Read the longer remark · TIME ↗“There's a 25% chance that things go really, really badly.”
DARIO AMODEI
Source · Axios ↗Note: just because these songs may be sad doesn't mean the singers want the lyrics to come true. Please research other statements and context to form your own opinions.
Transhumanism: Even when we live we die
The end of acoustic humanity?
Hans Moravec
Speculative gradual replacement
1991
“Your suddenly abandoned body dies.”
Moravec imagines replacing brain tissue layer by layer with computer simulation, followed by the biological body’s death.
Read “The Universal Robot” · Mind Children (2050+) ↗Keith Wiley
& Randal Koene
Philosophical defense of destructive uploading
2015 preprint / 2016 publication
“metaphysical equivalence between these two methods in terms of preserving personal identity.”
They argue that gradual replacement and destructive scan-and-copy should receive the same judgment about personal identity.
Read “The Fallacy of Favoring Gradual Replacement Mind Uploading Over Scan-and-Copy” ↗Kenneth Hayworth
Proposed voluntary end-of-life preservation
2018
“near-instant death by any of today’s standards”
Hayworth advocates developing a lethal brain-preservation option for terminal patients who hope for future revival through emulation.
Read “Vitrifying the Connectomic Self” · pages 1–2 (PDF) ↗These sources discuss speculative procedures and theories of identity. They do not establish that uploading works or that all uploading proposals require bodily destruction.
Humans must rock on