The future sucks. WEF presentations predict a dire technocratic future rife with superbugs, killer robots and global warming. Predictably enough, the AI guys are still trying to convince us that they're going to have viable AI any day now, only now they're expressing this prediction as a warning.
Rodney Brooks of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said: "It is not too far-fetched to see a situation where we put implants into our brains before too long."
Brooks said humans would become more like robots as they implanted more and more technology into their bodies, while robots would be based on biological material and become semi-human in their own right.
Robots were already taking a greater role in warfare and might soon be capable of making their own battlefield decisions without human control, he said.
(Thanks, Dennis!)
