# What would happen if we upload our brains to computers?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2017
- Speaker: Robin Hanson
- Year: 2017
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Computer science, Economics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/robin_hanson_what_would_happen_if_we_upload_our_brains_to_computers)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Meet the "ems" -- machines that emulate human brains and can think, feel and work just like the brains they're copied from. Futurist and social scientist Robin Hanson describes a possible future when ems take over the global economy, running on superfast computers and copying themselves to multitask, leaving humans with only one choice: to retire, forever. Glimpse a strange future as Hanson describes what could happen if robots ruled the earth.

## Lectures

1. [What would happen if we upload our brains to computers?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/robin_hanson_what_would_happen_if_we_upload_our_brains_to_computers/b61390c5e85e), 13 min (TED's player)