Humans must merge with AI to survive says Elon Musk

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has told conference attendees that humans must merge with AI if we are to survive against the dawn of the robot. "Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence," Musk told an audience at the World Government Summit in Dubai, according to CNBC. He explained that AI presents quite a danger to humans because they can process data at speeds of a trillion bits per second, while humans can only process information at ten bits per second. Our slow uptake of information could put us in danger and, therefore, Musk believes we must join forces with AI rather than work against it. "Some high bandwidth interface to the brain will be something that helps achieve a symbiosis between human and machine intelligence and maybe solves the control problem and the usefulness problem," he added.