Are We Destined To Merge With Technology and Become Cyborgs?

    Recently I read an article called Is Artificial Intelligence Taking Over Our Lives? published by The New York Times in their Room for Debate section. The article focused on the argument of how careful and quick we should be about implementing AI into our daily lives and how dangerous AI actually is to humanity. Some thought that AI should be implemented quickly as only has the outcome of bringing in a golden age for humanity, while others were wary of AI and did believe it could usher in a golden age of society but only if we are slow and careful about creating such dangerous super-intelligent AI.

    What really caught my eye was that one debater, Neil Harbisson, believed the  only way for humans to outsmart AI is to merge ourselves with technology and become cyborgs. The benefits of such a change to our biological compositions is immense, but the same could equally be said for its draw-backs. We could be just as smart or even smarter than AI if we became cyborgs, but if we became cyborgs then we could allow ourselves to be hacked by a threatening AI or even other humans. If we all became AI and became super-intelligent, then would we be intelligent enough to realize all the faults of humanity and come to world peace? Or would the human side of some of us take over and use their new intelligence to take down fellow humans/cyborgs at a rate we have never seen? Would a supreme race of human being such as cyborgs threaten the prospect of their being prejudice against those without augmentations to their body, or would cyborgs be too smart to be prejudice? Would merging ourselves AI be the only way to defeat AI from outsmarting us, or would we have lost because we would partially become AI ourselves?

    What do you think about there being cyborgs walking around Earth? Do you think it is safe or even ethical? If you would like to become a cyborg how would you deal with the draw backs of becoming one? If you don't want to be a cyborg how would you deal with those who are? We should answer these questions now before someone inevitably merges with AI whether we like it or not.