The point is that the danger of AGI is much easier to understand through whole brain emulation, not that whole brain emulation is necessarily imminent. That sai

The point is that the danger of AGI is much easier to understand through whole brain emulation, not that whole brain emulation is necessarily imminent. That said, the most pernicious risk in AGI is that it will happen "slowly, then all at once"; that it will always be a long way away until the day it isn't. That said, it isn't obvious to what extent we need to understand the brain in order to transfer it to another substrate: much of engineering relies on a simplified understanding of the world.