Musk says people will become immortal through robots

People will be able to become immortal by transferring consciousness to robots within 20 years - Musk

Founder of Tesla and Neuralink Elon Musk said. over the next two decades, humanity will be able to achieve “digital immortality”, transferring consciousness to the artificial bodies of robots.

According to him, this technology is already “on the horizon” thanks to the development of neural interfaces and artificial intelligence, that Neuralink is working on.

«We can download human consciousness into an artificial body. It will not be an exact copy, but a clone that will preserve the person's memories, personality and way of thinking,» Musk said.

How it will work

Neuralink is already conducting experiments with reading brain activity, which allows signals to be transmitted from the human brain to the computer.
Musk believes that In the future, this data can be fully transferred to a digital shell - effectively creating a an artificial human double.

According to his forecast, in the next 20 years, the technology could become affordable for wealthy people, and later for a wider range of users.

Context.

The idea of “consciousness uploading” has long been discussed in scientific circles and is a central theme of numerous futuristic concepts.
Earlier, similar predictions were made by a futurist Ray Kurzweil, which envisaged the “merger of man and machine” by 2045.

However, critics warn that even if such projects are successful a copy of a person will not be their real consciousness, but only personality imitation.