Survival requires merging with AI?

Human brains process about 11 million bits of information per second, but our conscious minds can handle only a mere 41 bits per second.

While millions of events unfold around us, we're aware of only a tiny fraction. Our very sense of time is limited by how much information we can process in each moment.

Humanity's biggest impediment isn't the speed of light; it's the speed of thought. In the second it takes us to process 41 bits, an eternity could have passed for AI.

In a fraction of a second, AI can compute every possible chess move, write every page of every book, and calculate every option we might consider—before we've even made our first decision.

Brain implants may enable direct interfaces between our neurons and AI, accelerating our cognition and bridging our biological limits with AI's boundless potential.

Yet our 80 billion neurons can't match the ever-increasing cognitive speed of our silicon counterparts. Ultimately, we'll need to re-engineer our own biology if we hope to keep pace in the arms race for intelligence.

Until then, the alliance between humans and AI will be temporary.