Building Atop an Existing Conscience

We hear a lot about our attempts at building artificial intelligence. We have many talented intellectuals trying to come up with an entity that is smarter and more logical than we are and I commend them for their efforts and I really do hope it works out. I want more friends to spend time with and grow and learn.

But I wonder, shouldn't we also try enhancing an already consciousness mind? Us. Humans. We have brains. Most of us have learned to care and operate in a social environment. Yeah, sure we might have biases, and our brains may inherently be flawed, but it seems that if we were able to vastly increase our cognitive capacities we’d be certainly more useful and powerful and effective in solving our problems. What’s more, if we could vastly increase one of our humankind’s intelligence, we wouldn't have the public worrying about artificial intelligence going rogue and revolting against us. We would have a super intelligence on our team! Imagine people cheering for him/her.

It seems to me that while creating pure artificial intelligence is also an important thing, we should also try and vastly enhance our cognitive capacities to the point of meriting the label “super-intelligence”.