What is Synthetic Intelligence and What Does It Mean for Humanity?

A merger between humans and machines is coming, and it's not what you may have thought. Something mysterious flickered into reality when our ancestors first learned to extract knowledge from their heads and embed it in tools. Now, millions of years later, our tools are fusing with us and, in so doing, bringing about something that is part biological and part technological. We are incubating this new intelligence in our organizations, but it is also true that it represents an extension of ourselves. Humanity is like a seed in an enigmatic womb made up of artificial intelligence and automation.