Pedro Domingos: AI is not a new species, it's a new ecosystem
pmddomingos · x · 2026-10-03
Pedro Domingos offers a framing take: AI should be understood not as a new species but as a new ecosystem — pushing back against anthropomorphized "species" narratives, and instead describing a web of models, tools, platforms and humans that co-evolve and depend on each other.
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