François Fleuret: Only Two Long-Term Futures — No Super AI, or Staying Fully Human With It
francoisfleuret · x · 2026-09-11
Meta AI researcher François Fleuret laid out a three-way split of long-term futures: (1) no super AI; (2) super AI arrives but humans remain entirely human — he calls both the "kindergarten"; and (3) super AI plus humans biohacking/hybridizing with silicon, which he argues almost certainly makes us "very not human" and erodes our reasons for being.
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