AI ethicist: practical irrelevance precedes existential irrelevance for unaugmented humans
danfaggella · x · 2026-10-08
Quoting the idea that AI is compressing 30 years of human experience into 30 seconds of inference, AI ethicist danfaggella argues this is 'the end of man':
- Practical irrelevance (unemployability) precedes existential irrelevance (extinction).
- Living entities persist only by participating in the greater living system, and unaugmented hominids will soon lose the ability to participate.
A stark entry in the debate over AI's long-term impact on human relevance and agency.
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