Yet AI is just one facet of transhumanism - there's plenty more to be worries about (fi you buy into the theories). "There was never really a moment where I felt I was in danger of being converted to transhumanism," he says. One person in particular had to stop reading it because they were in danger of fainting! She was jokey about it when she wrote to me, saying she was the first cyborg barrister in London!" To Be A Machine: Advetures Among Cybors, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death by Mark O'Connell is published by Granta.

Source: Irish Independent May 12, 2018 07:26 UTC