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Silicon Valley is cheerleading the prospect of human–AI hybrids — we should be worried

A pseudo-religion dressed up as technoscience promises human transcendence at the cost of extinction.
  1. Alex Gomez-Marin

    1. Alex Gomez-Marin is a theoretical physicist turned neuroscientist at the Institute of Neurosciences of Alicante in Spain.

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With rapid advances in technology, there might soon be hybrids of humans and artificial intelligences. Credit: Josep Lago/AFP/Getty

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Nature 632, 497-498 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02603-2

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