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FBL105: Gerd Leonhard - Empowering Humanity Towards a Good Future

The Singularity Discussion Series

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The Fear of Transhumanism

I fear that a lot of discussions about merging with technology which is the proposal of transhumanism to essentially become superhuman. I don't think it's going to be a considerable advantage over the things that are already superhuman which are machines. And we are already seeing the loss of humanity in social media with this aspect of manipulation and fake world as I call it. Now we have synthetic worlds coming up with AI, the Apple headset. That is kind of like what Transhumanism is proposing that we can be superior by becoming one with technology. And I think the path is the opposite. It's like we should let technology do all the heavy lifting solve all our major problems but not create a black

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