Machines keep cutting into what's human, but there's a core they can't reach

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But they imagined what would happen, and they decided there would be a point you can no longer cut. And the idea of "The Atomic Human" is if every time we invent the computer to do something that we in the past would have thought of as uniquely human-- it's cutting into us cognitively-- is there a point where you can't cut? And the answer I give in the first chapter-- and I sometimes ask that to the audience to see what they say. I asked it in my department. No one could come up with anything, but most people have ideas. My answer is the thing the machine can't have is our limitations and our vulnerabilities, in effect, our weaknesses because it's born without them. And in particular, even if you say we could emulate them today-- we could tell the machine-- it wouldn't know. We've also been on a journey with those limitations and vulnerabilities, together as humans, for 100,000 300,000 years, depending on who you count.