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Read Superintelligence. Or check out Bostrom's TED talk.
>Really? It's still their opinion, there's no way to prove or disprove it. Trump has an opinion that global warming is faked but it doesn't mean it's true.
From my perspective, you have that analogy flipped. Even if we run with it, it's impossible to ignore the sudden dramatic rate of acceleration in AI capability and accuracy over just the past few years, just as it is with the climate. Even the CEO of Google was caught off-guard by the sudden acceleration within his own company. Scientists also claim that climate change is real and that it's an existential threat; should we ignore them though because they can't "prove" it? What "proof" can be provided for the future? You can't, so you predict based on the trends. And their trend lines have a lot of similarities.
>Also, even if it's a threat(i don't think so, but let's assume it is), how putting it in your brain will help? That's kind of ridiculous. Nowadays you can turn your PC off or even throw it away. You won't be able to do that once it's in your brain. Also, what if the chip decides to take control over your arms and legs one day? It's insane to say that AI is a threat but to plan to put it inside humans' brain. AI will change your perception input and you will be thinking you are living your life but in reality you will be sitting in a cell somewhere. Straight up some Matrix stuff. Don't want that.
The point is that, in a hypothetical world where AI becomes so intelligent and powerful that you are effectively an ant in comparison, both in intelligence and influence, a likely outcome is death just as it is for billions of ants that we step on or displace without knowing or caring; think of how many species we humans have made extinct. Or if an AI is harnessed by a single entity, those controlling it become god-like dictators because they can prevent the development of any further AIs and have unlimited resources to grow and impose. So the Neuralink "solution" is to 1) Enable ourselves to communicate with computer-like bandwidth and elevate ourselves to a level comparable to AI instead of being left in ant territory, and 2) make each person an independent AI on equal footing so that we aren't controlled by a single external force.
It sounds creepy in some ways to me too, but an existential threat sounds a lot worse. And there's a lot of potential for amazement as well. Just like with most technological leaps.
I don't know how much you've read on the trends and future of AI. I would recommend Nick Bostrom's book "Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies", but it's quite lengthy and technical. For a shorter thought experiment, the Paperclip Maximizer scenario.
Even if the threat is exaggerated, I see no problem with creating this if it's voluntary.