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It's coming, human and A.T. merging .

There are always two sides to technology and of course the tech companies market good side and don't acknowledge the equally potent negative side.

I was at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this year in the blockchain conference session.  An incredible company called Hanson Robotics presented their humanoid that looked like a real woman's head and she blinked, nodded and conversed used conversational AI.  It was incredible.  Dr. Hanson at one point said to imagine all of the incredible things that would be possible for human good.  I turned to the people around me and panned: imagine what the evil people of this world could use it for...

Like Elon Musk says ... we are cyborgs already, just rudimentary and basic interface between electronics and us. Very soon, the exchange in information between us and electronics will be synonymous.

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Nice article man. My only question is what if it's our only chance to compete with AI? I do realize that most companies that offer the brain-computer interface will exploit it.

However, if AI does spring into existence in a meaningful way that creates a competition that we simply cannot compete with without enhancements. In that case, we might be up against a wall and forced to evolve or get left behind. I might be playing devils advocate because I do have very mixed feelings on the subject.

E.g. I'm a strong advocate of technology and computers yet I hate the way that Windows 10 and smartphones have used it to mine our data for all that we are worth. Hell, even all of your posts on the blockchain could be harvested by AI to create an artificial you without your permission. It's very complex territory, I'm not so sure that it is as simple as black and white.

I think if the singularity comes and it will if we don't nuke ourselves first we have to consider things on a case by case basis and not throw the baby out with the bath water. I think it's a well known maxim that technology primitive or otherwise is a double edged sword and if the good guys don't keep up with it then the bad guys will prevail.

What say you, is there room for a middle ground? Or, how will the future human race have a chance to compete if the tools the dark side is using are verboten?

Sorry I wrote most of the above before finishing your article. I see now that you also see the singularity as an inevitable factor. I think that our only hope is to use the tech for good as much as possible. Yet, if we can't shake the desire for free apps and operating services that provide them we'll be doomed to enhancing their capabilities against us.

Even on Steem, we're feeding them and all they need to do is harvest our thoughts and use it against us. It is no doubt, a very complex problem indeed.

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This has been a long time coming.

Hello Ghost In The Shell.

Oh wait  maybe West World would be more  accurate.

I wonder if a certain race or gender will be better at controlling machines.  I had an idea for Sci Fi that the Patriarchy begins to lose its power because women are better at interfacing with technology.

This is crazy, sounds dystopian and can really change human behavior and vulnerability.

All I can think of are all the downsides to this becoming a reality with these companies at the forefront of it all... Let’s hope we don’t see it in our lifetime! The mind control and manipulation that would be rampant. They will claim they only read signals coming but we know they want to be able to send signals into our brain so badly that the technology won’t emerge to market until that time.

In their hubris what many fail to realise is that, a net/mind interface of information and the repetition of generationally alternating facts is a wholly different beast to knowledge and wisdom.   For me, reflection, contemplation and empathy are the path to wisdom and as such are the nature of true intelligence, evolutionary intelligence.

Indeed as I wrote in a previous post: Even in the best case scenario of a benevolent artificial intelligence I often think about Sat Nav technology. I think about how within a generation the ability to read a road map will become a dying art. Just like how the advent of mobile phones has destroyed our capacity to remember numbers. From this perspective is it really that far-fetched to suggest that over time artificial intelligence will reduce the public’s capacity to think, question, debate and express thoughts and opinions that are contradictory to the hive mind. Because A.I knows best, doesn’t it?

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I just hope such advance in technology will not come at a great irreversible cost on humanity

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When the output is perfected, reversing it to become input becomes a danger that is impossible to overstate. Considering they are already creating group-cognition computer interfaces where two people just think to give input to a third person playing Tetris, I suspect they are much further along than is apparent in press briefings. 

I'm not sure I even want to know what the military is capable of in this area, given that best estimates are it is anywhere from 20-40 years more advanced technologically than the public is allowed to know.

I have been trying to keep up in this area and it is fascinating. My [Cyborg Chicken](https://steemit.com/informationwar/@cupidzero/cyborg-chickens-the-happy-button-and-direct-neural-stimulation) and [Selfish Ledger](https://steemit.com/informationwar/@cupidzero/the-slow-creep-of-scientific-dictatorship-google-s-selfish-ledger-transcript) posts are nice complements to the write-up you did here. Put all of them together and I think we can see a vague path forward for those who wish more control and less accountability.