Treating AI as Another Species Is a Category Error
sebkrier · x · 2026-07-06
sebkrier argues that analogizing AI to a persistent entity with goals (like another species) is fundamentally a category error: lions are products of Darwinian selection, whereas AI is not. People often project biological attributes onto models without compelling arguments. He cites Drexler's view in "Reframing Superintelligence" that emerging AI technologies don't fit psychistic frameworks and differ fundamentally from evolved intelligent systems. He also mentions related papers by Hendrycks but finds them unconvincing.
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