Meet Your Replacements

There’s no one like you. At least, not yet. But in some visions of the future, androids can do just about everything, computers will hook directly into your brain, and genetic human-hybrids with exotic traits will be walking the streets. So could humans become an endangered species?

Be prepared to meet the new-and-improved you. But how much human would actually remain in the humanoids of the future?

Plus, tips for preventing our own extinction in the face of inevitable natural catastrophes.

Guests:

•  Robin Hanson – Associate professor of economics, George Mason University

•  Luke Muehlhauser – Executive director of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute

•  Stuart Newman – Professor of cell biology and anatomy, New York Medical College

•  Annalee Newitz – Editor of io9.com, and author of Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction

First released July 1, 2013.

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