Kamath: Ubiquitous AGI Brain Chips Will Cause Humans to Rebel Against Algorithms
Nikhil Kamath · Ep #21 | WTF is Longevity? | Nikhil ft. Nithin Kamath, Bryan Johnson, Prashanth, Jitendra & Seema · Nikhil Kamath · Feb 2, 2025 · at 51:31
Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath predicts how human behavior and individuality will respond if AI neural chips dictate human thought and decision-making.
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“Because if there is AGI and there is a chip which thinks better and not just executes for us better or helps us, but things for all of us. It will soon get democratized and we all will have the same chip. We'll again go back to the innate cardinal need for a man to distinguish himself from the peer. So you would do what is against the algorithm to find your identity versus following the algorithm.”
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