Human augmentation: Musk makes a hash of his pitch - UK Column News - 2nd December 2022

Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-2nd-december-2022

- Elon Musk Show and Tell livestream yesterday on his latest efforts to interface the human brain with microchips: implantation trial within six months
- Clip: Musk fumblingly describes his overall goal: “create a whole-brain interface”, a generalised input/output device to access the soul—and asks how the risk of supposedly super-intelligent computers can be mitigated
- Patrick Henningsen commentary: Actual researchers know we are actually nowhere near the trumpeted “singularity”; artificial competence is not artificial intelligence—but this should be understood separately from Musk’s free speech aims on Twitter
- UK Ministry of Defence’s boffin department Dstl boasts “pioneering AI trial”
- UK MoD also has a Defence Artificial Intelligence Strategy
- Mike Robinson analysis: Supposedly, AI is only a problem when in the adversary’s hands—but British defence thinking openly says now that it thinks the enemy is found at home
- Patrick Henningsen commentary: Be more concerned about what your local health service and police force is deciding to do with you using AI—the hallmarks of a technocracy