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What's After AI? Uploaded Intelligence
The Business Guardian
|September 15, 2025
We are living in the creepiest times humanity has ever seen. AI has become our invisible co-pilot, and the line between what's instinctively human and what's algorithmically crafted gets blurrier every day.
We are living in the creepiest times humanity has ever seen. AI has become our invisible co-pilot, and the line between what's instinctively human and what's algorithmically crafted gets blurrier every day. One of the real questions that lurks underneath all this progress is simple but unsettling: Can technology finally deliver on humanity's oldest dream—can it make us immortal? Is it possible that, after centuries of hoping and fearing, we'll get to live beyond our own deaths, preserved as data in some far-flung server farm? Recently, I found myself binge-watching "Pantheon" on Netflix, a series that doesn't just flirt with this idea but jumps right in. It walks through the door that science fiction has been propping open for decades: the idea of Uploaded Intelligence.
The show brings it to life with surprising tenderness, mapping not only the leap in technology but the emotional residues that refuse to fade away. Even in a world where consciousness gets copied into digital code, love, grief, pride all survive, pulsing beneath the silicon. That was the most startling thing for me: watching characters remain heartbreakingly human, even when their "minds" exist nowhere but online. "Pantheon" makes it clear that AI on its own won't cut it all. What's needed is this fusion, where human intelligence, which is complete with its tangles of feeling, will merge with machine logic. That, apparently, is our next evolutionary step.
WHAT IS UPLOADED INTELLIGENCE?
This story is from the September 15, 2025 edition of The Business Guardian.
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