Rise of the Machines, End of the Humans: Dr. Robert Lanza on Machines Taking over the World

World-renowned scientist Dr. Robert Lanza, who is likened to the legendary Albert Einstein, believes that one day, the world as we know it will be taken over by our own mechanical creations. “It’s not a matter of if, but rather when it’s going to happen,” he adds.

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Dr. Lanza is part of the team that has been successful in cloning herds of cows and even endangered species and the first human embryos, reversed ageing of the cellular level, and made progress in growing replacement tissues for every organ in the body including the heart and kidney. However, for him, there is still one more organ that’s a far greater challenge – the brain. “It seems natural that someday we’ll make machines that’ll think and act like people,” Dr. Robert Lanza says. There already are scientists at MIT proposing that the interactions between the neurons can be duplicated by using silicon chips. “Eventually we may even be able to build a machine that can reproduce and evolve.” Dr. Lanza adds.

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However, a machine has no other principle but physics and the chemistry of the atoms that compose it. Unlike humans, it cannot possess a sense of consciousness. Dr. Lanza states that the scientific community will eventually understand these algorithms to create “thinking” machines and enhancement to ourselves, both biological and artificial, that we can’t even dare think of. Dr. Lanza conludes, “And after over 200,000 years of evolution, Homo sapiens, as a distinct species, may go extinct, not by a meteor or nuclear weapons, but by our desire to achieve perfection.”

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