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But life post-antennae has not been straightforward – the film also reveals he’s received death threats, from people who object to how he has modified his body. <\/p>\n

Harbisson touches on this in the film.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor many years we\u2019ve had different types of death threats, from people who really hate what we\u2019re doing, because they think it\u2019s anti-natural or anti-God,” he says. <\/p>\n

“So they think we should be stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n

The threats caused the couple to relocate their home to somewhere new, its precise location a closely guarded detail.<\/p>\n

Born says: “It’s such a shame… they’re very gentle people”. <\/p>\n

But she adds that her film injects possible notes of caution into the issue of body augmentation.<\/p>\n

Harbisson’s credo, which includes his own business interests, is: “Design Yourself.”<\/p>\n

But Born wants to get people thinking about “security – and the hacking potential all of these things could result in”.<\/p>\n

“There’s a safety issue in terms of who is doing it, what are the circumstances that they’re doing it under, and what are the possible outcomes or consequences?” she adds. <\/p>\n

A 2022 survey by US think tank the Pew Research Centre, external<\/span>, into AI and human enhancement, suggests the US public may have some reservations. <\/p>\n

Those surveyed were “generally more excited than concerned about the idea of several potential changes to human abilities”.<\/p>\n

But many were “hesitant or undecided” about the virtues of biomedical interventions to “change cognitive abilities or the course of human health”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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