AI as a Competing Species: Humans Must Drive Their Own Evolution to Survive
chrisgrayson · x · 2026-09-09
Framing AI through the lens of punctuated equilibrium, the author argues Homo sapiens have been stable for 300,000 years, but that stability ends when the environment shifts—via natural catastrophe or, in our case, the arrival of a competitor species: AI. The upside, he says, is that we are technologically advanced enough to drive our own evolution. It will be bumpy, but before this century is out, humanity will speciate.
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