Thank you for reading!
We are moving faster than many people realise, its hard to keep up but philosophical questions like that need to be asked. It is worrying that we are messing with our minds and AI when we don't really understand consciousness D:
I think it will be an inevitability that some of us will choose to merge with AI in the future, and once some of us have, like you say it becomes a race. Not everyone will want chips as well, which would create a separation and perhaps a branch in our evolutionary path.

Thanks again for the great comment! :)