Are We Becoming Cybernetic Organisms?

On Monday at the World Government Summit in Dubai, Elon Musk suggested that humans must merge with machines or become irrelevant in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) age. Musk said, "Over time, I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence. In an age when AI threatens to become widespread, humans would be useless, so there's a need to merge with machines," according to Musk. He described his concern of "deep AI" which reaches far beyond driverless cars in what he called "artificial general intelligence". This is when AI becomes "smarter than the smartest human on earth" and he called it a "dangerous situation".