AI Ethicist Dan Faggella: Cognitively Enhanced Humans Will De Facto Outvalue Un-augmented Ones
danfaggella · x · 2026-09-23
AI ethicist Dan Faggella lays out a sharp AGI-era argument: most people act as if one human life is worth more than one chimp's life, whether or not they'd admit it — and chimps can't do anything about it. By the same logic, he predicts that even if you reject the idea, cognitively enhanced humans will in practice be valued more than un-augmented humans. A continuation of his long-running thesis that cognitive upgrades will reshape value hierarchies.
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