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"What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by
artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have applied themselves to
questions like this, considering how AI will alter lives – often for better,
sometimes for worse.
They have conjured dramatic scenarios, like AI-driven extinction of humans (and
many other species), or our assimilation into human-AI cyborgs. The predictions
are generally grim, pitting the fate of all humans against a unitary (or
unified) AI opponent.
What if the AI future doesn’t stretch to these sci-fi dystopias? For an
evolutionary biologist, seeing AI technologies diversify into all manner of
applications looks a lot like the proliferation of microbes, plants and animals
in an ecological landscape.
Which led me to ask: how might human evolution be altered by interactions with
a world of rich AI diversity? In a paper just published in
The Quarterly
Review of Biology, I considered the many ways AI might alter physical,
biological and social environments, and how that might influence natural
selection."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
