Maybe I’ll have to wait to be in my fifties (or
sixties) for the first truly efficient brain interfaces to come out.
Then, it
will take longer for the Archas (linearly-archaic thinking people) and even
when they would finally adopt it, since generally their creativity isn’t very
high, it would take even longer for them to become really useful in tomorrow
world's where only human creativity would be better than the AIs one.
This would
create a bigger gap between people. So not only wealthier people having access
to brain implants would outgrow their intelligence and power a lot faster than
the poorest people that couldn’t access it yet but soon after but also, among the
developed countries, opened minded smart and creative folks would outgrow
their mind possibilities even way faster than the folks with the same chip in
their brains but with less creative juice and intelligence, even if pretty soon after
the gap would finally shrink.
What’s even more frightening is that, beside AIs
becoming stronger, if they are still less smart (or still obedient enough) than
humans when this happens, a small group of people, let’s say « the
richest », would use their implant to develop better strategies to enslave
the world and might finally succeed.
Their best course of action would then be
to forbid and prevent such chips to be accessible by the masses in order to
control them which would also be a huge risk (unless they also collaborate
with their elite) since the Chinese population might get actually full access to
this tech and at very low cost and the Western elite might not want a Chinese
population way smarter and more powerful than a western one, right?
Would be quite a
paradox to have folks from a dictatorship being totally freed when folks from
pseudo-Democracies would end-up enslaved (well, we already are but that would be real enslavement then).
But this is without mentioning the
A.Is which would end-up anyway taking control over humans as it would be very
difficult to forbid or prevent their exponential growth (unless mind uploading
occurs before or at the same time in which case we could actually make it (or
at least our copy could make it)).








