THE MIND VERSUS THE BODY D R . B E

THE MIND VERSUS THE BODY On the rise of the machines and the fusion with human bodies I've spent most of my career focusing more on the mind part than the body part, and I want to talk about that a little bit and then come back to the aspect of the fusion with human bodies, which is our core theme. [...] Fusion with Humans The potential good is tremendous, the potential on the other side is also very I want to talk about the fusion between clear – but this is the downside: AI and humans, and the roles that human-like bodies have to play in all of “The AI does not love you; it does not this. [...] Why do we need to humanise robots? mean these robots are humans, but it means that the robots are getting a lot What is so stimulating about having a of the response patterns that humans full robot that is like a human? get – they’re getting a bunch of humaneness ingrained in their learning I think the 'interactive by design' of systems. [...] I don’t think we fully understand the robot side it is important that there’s democratic yet, but we can work with it from a sort and decentralised control of this global of artistic, product development and fusion of biological and engineer human standpoint, which is important computation, rather than being to understand and just build an controlled by a small number of experiment with. [...] and social desirability? As singularity approaches, we are going I think the right ethical framework is to see more and more rapid going to emerge in a sort of self- development and deployment of organising way from a large number of different technologies and humans feeling out the utilisation of governmental processes are going to be these new technologies.