What the fuck did I just read.

Anyways I'm all for tech and tech dystopia conversation here but there is literally no way you will be able to preserve a human mind via "uploading". It would be a mere copy of a personality at best. The human ie: you would be dead. It's like star trek transporters. If your molecules get broken down to an atomic level and reassembled from binary data you just die and a new creation is made in your place.

For starters we can't even explain how our brain actually works and this is a huge rabbit hole you can dive down. I'm willing to bet AI research will significantly outpace any brain related breakthroughs for the foreseeable future. For one the ROI on AI research is way more valuable.

Cybernetics are more likely than mind uploading anyways.

Edit: AI also doesn't work like people think it works either. Right now it's machine learning based on pattern recognition and it's fairly crude. It may take many decades to leave this zone and it may require AI to be ran on small portable Quantum Computers in order to reach the expectations people have of a humanlike AI sentience.