We're all cyborgs, and AI assistants will make us more human

In the classic 1980s dystopian sci-fi movieRoboCop, mortally wounded Detroit police officer Alex Murphy is reborn as a cyborg when his brain is implanted in a fully mechanical body. He comes back better and stronger than ever, so good at his job that later in the film, his fellow human officers go on strike to protest robots taking their jobs. Being part man and part machine, Murphy melds the street smarts and instincts of a human officer with the strength, stamina, and durability of a machine to become a more effective cop. We're not particularly close to having the technology that would make that kind of robot-human hybrid possible, but what if I told you we'realreadycyborgs? It's true. Humans have been using technology to augment our biology for millennia, and AI is going to accelerate this trend.