Robin Hanson: What would happen if we upload our brains to computers?

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Meet the "ems" — machines that emulate human brains and can think, feel and work just like the brains they're copied from. Futurist and social scientist Robin Hanson describes a possible future when ems take over the global economy, running on superfast computers and copying themselves to multitask, leaving humans with only one choice: to retire, forever. Glimpse a strange future as Hanson describes what could happen if robots ruled the earth.

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TED.com

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Tedtalks;TED;Talks;AI;computers;economics;future;humanity;innovation;intelligence;mind;robots;science;society;technology;TED2017;2017

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