David Duvenaud: A more capable civilization may marginalize or exploit us — history shows which depends on winners' needs
DavidDuvenaud · x · 2026-10-02
AI researcher David Duvenaud offers a historical analogy for superintelligence: agriculturalists pushed hunter-gatherers into deserts and forests (marginalization), while industrial societies slotted agricultural ones into subordinate economic niches (exploitation). Which fate awaits humanity, he argues, depends on what the winners need.
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