The startup company BrainBridge recently released a video advertising its future services that are mind-blowing. The company promises that in about 8 years, it will be able to use A.I. and completely robotic surgeons to remove a patient's head and attach it to another body. Glenn and Stu review the shocking video and explain ask, "what could possibly go wrong?!"
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GLENN: Let me go back again. This is cut 17. From the World Economic Forum's Yuval Noah Harari. Which he is one of the big guys in the World Economic Forum. He's the leader now of AI philosophy. And futurist, philosophically. I just want you to hear about what he says. This kind of technology. Now, this is two years ago.
What this kind of technology can do. Cut 17.
VOICE: A system. That understands us better than we understand ourselves. Can predict our feelings and decisions. Can manipulate our feelings and decisions.
And can ultimately make decisions for us.
Soon, at least some corporations and governments, will be able to systematically hack all the people. We humans should get used to the idea, that we are no longer mysterious souls.
We are now hackable animals.
GLENN: So what does that mean?
Well, it means, they can hack you, and know what you're thinking before you even know you're thinking. They will be able to predict, because of all of the data they have on you.
And all of the realtime data, they have on you.
They will be able to predict. Anybody see the movie, Minority Report?
Yeah. Kind of like that. Beyond that, what he's talking about is hacking you. It will make decisions for you.
Now, I don't want anyone making decisions for me.
And that's the problem right now.
The government seems to be making all of these decisions for us.
Telling us exactly how we have to live.
But imagine propaganda that is so subtle, so good, and so tailored to you. That you don't know it's propaganda.
So all of a sudden, you're saying, you know, these 15-minute cities. You know, honey. We don't ever have to fly again.
We could sell our credits to rich people. So they can fly.
That's what he's talking about.
There has to be a -- a law passed in Washington, that protects our data.
You need to own your own data. Now, what else could possibly go wrong?
Well, let me tell you now about the first head transplant.
This is an insane medical break through.
In fact, let's just play part of the video on it. Here it is.
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GLENN: Introducing Brain Bridge, the world's first revolutionary concept for a head transplant machine which uses state of the art robotics and artificial intelligence, to complete head and face transplant procedures, ensuring smooth outcomes and faster recoveries. Because head transplants require high speed, precision, and efficiency, Brain Bridge utilizes advanced high speed, high-precision robotic systems to speed up the process, eliminate human error, prevent brain cell degradation, and ensure seamless compatibility.
The head transplant procedure involves removing a person's entire head, containing the brain, from their current diseased body, and attaching it to the body of the healthy, young, brain dead donor.
The head transplants could provide individuals with severe medical conditions, such as terminal cancer, paralysis, spinal cord injuries, or neural degenerative diseases, the opportunity to have a fully functional body, while preserving their consciousness, memories, and cognitive abilities.
The neurons are the longest lasting functional cells in the human body. That according to our estimates, the brain is capable of lasting several hundred years provided that the rest of the body remains young.
GLENN: Did you hear that? As long as the body remains young, the head, the brain, can last several hundred years.
All we'll need are bodies. Now, these will be bodies of brain dead people, I'm sure. We won't -- I mean, you won't suddenly wake up with a -- oh, I don't know.
Chinese gulag body. No. That will never happen.
But as long as we have healthy bodies. We'll be -- no. No. No.
Some of us will be able to live forever.
How exciting is that?
Now, they said, you know, because brain -- you know, brain body transplants are difficult.
No. Right now. They're impossible. You can't do that. They've had one attempt recently in Russia.
And I believe the guy went insane. And died.
The same thing that happens with monkeys. They transplant the brains. Or they transplant the heads of monkeys on other monkeys. And we can do it.
You, but they all go insane. But nothing to worry about. Their science.
Does that sound spooky at all to you, Stu.
STU: Not at all. That honestly sounded like a promo for like an underground promotional campaign for a sci-fi film.
Like, it didn't even seem real.
