Elon Musk: To avoid becoming like monkeys, humans must merge with machines

In recent years, Elon Musk has become one of the most vocal critics of artificial intelligence, issuing numerous warnings about the threat that powerful machines pose to the future of mankind.

Now the 47-year-old billionaire inventor and Tesla chief executive has unveiled a potential way for the meager human brain to compete with a superior force that Musk has compared to "an immortal dictator" and "the devil."

By Peter Holley

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/11/26/elon-musk-avoid-becoming-like-monkeys-humans-must-merge-with-machines/?utm_term=.155e4bcd19a9