On September 23, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that he is optimistic about “bio-augmentation” in the next ten years, and the “Neural Connections” company he co-founded is trying to break through the bottleneck of human information transmission bandwidth. Musk said that even if AI is friendly enough and willing to serve humans, the transmission of information between humans and machines is still too slow. The peak human bandwidth is only about 100 bits per second, and our information output speed is extremely low. Computers, on the other hand, communicate at trillion bits per second. Any technology that increases the speed of human communication will improve the alignment between humans and machines. Otherwise, for an AI that communicates at trillion bits per second, communicating with people is like a human talking to a tree.

On September 23, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that he is optimistic about “bio-augmentation” in the next ten years, and the “Neural Connections” company he co-founded is trying to break through the bottleneck of human information transmission bandwidth. Musk said that even if AI is friendly enough and willing to serve humans, the transmission of information between humans and machines is still too slow. The peak human bandwidth is only about 100 bits per second, and our information output speed is extremely low. Computers, on the other hand, communicate at trillion bits per second. Any technology that increases the speed of human communication will improve the alignment between humans and machines. Otherwise, for an AI that communicates at trillion bits per second, communicating with people is like a human talking to a tree.