Elon Musk’s Neuralink is pursuing “brain computer interfaces,” also known as BCI. Bloomberg via Getty Images Case in point: Altman invested in Nectome, a startup promising to digitize the brain. The only problem: the digital immortality procedure has a 100% fatality rate. “I assume my brain will be uploaded to the cloud,” Altman told MIT Technology Review when he invested in 2018. Altman venerates machines so much that he can denigrate humanity by contrast. In February, he defended AI’s energy cost by criticizing human beings themselves as energy inefficient: “It takes like 20 years of life, and all the food you eat before that time, before you get smart.” These ghoulish comments and investments come together to promote the transhumanist vision. Biohacking companies blur the line between organic and synthetic life. Brain-computer interfaces promise to make the brain and AI one and the same. It all amounts to a reinvention of mankind, an almost religious vision. Even Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg admitted that people in the industry discuss “building this one true AI” like they “think they’re creating God or something.” A Noetix humanoid robot, Hobbs W1, at a reception desk of a tech forum in Beijing, China in March. REUTERS