Are machines going to control us? (Consilience) – Dialogue with Chris Lingle – D47

For our third dialogue of Consilience, Christopher Lingle visited us. There were many neuroscientific topics, and one of the most important was the materialistic implications and possibilities of eventually creating artificial intelligence (AI) and emotions (AE). I mean, if emotions are just chemical reactions in our brain, can’t we create an artificial organ that simulates this? You may say that emotions are connected with memories, so how about creating a machine with enough capacity to gather databases and based on these knowledge, form opinions, criteria, and emotions. By doing this, you would be able to talk with a computer and not find a difference with a human interaction, making an exception to the Turing test. So, can we achieve a state in which we can control our minds? Read thoughts? Control them? Change our perspective of time and space, being able to control it? Are these AI and AE machines have the instinct of survival and therefore capable of rebelling themselves against humans? Is this process of controlling us, humans, inevitable and only a matter of time? Maybe, I don’t know yet…