The End is Beginning: how humanity will soon merge with AI and rise into a self-redesigning super being that transcends reality as we know it

As AI capabilities accelerate, with almost daily breakthroughs, we must face profound implications to humanity's future. Many experts worry about existential risks, but even contructive, hopeful futures could tansform the trajectory of human evolution. AI, bioscience, information sciences, intertwine with the potential for merging our very biology with artificial intelligence so that we may become a self-redesigning super being, changing humanity forever. Drawing on his extensive research in the fields of robotics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science, Dr. Hanson discusses the current state of AI and its potential to transform our world in ways that were previously unimaginable. He argues that the convergence of human and machine intelligence may be both inevitable and the only solution to anthropogenic existential risks. As we converge with our AI, we may grow into a spiralling, self-reinventing asymptote of superbenificial superintelligence, wherein the resulting entity may be capable of transcending reality as we know it, opening up new frontiers of possibility and pushing the boundaries of what it means to be human. Join Dr. Hanson's talk for a fascinating glimpse into the future of humanity and the profound changes that may just beginning to unfold.