AI is the competitor species that will force humans to speciate, argues techie
JasonBotterill · x · 2026-09-09
The author frames Homo Sapiens' 300,000-year 'punctuated equilibrium' as ending with the arrival of a competitor species: AI. Either rapid evolution or extinction follows. He argues humans, uniquely armed with technology, can drive their own evolution—and predicts our species will speciate before the century is out.
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