"Adapting to AI" means changing the human condition, not learning new tools
danfaggella · x · 2026-10-19
Dan Faggella argues that talk of "adapting to AI" badly understates what's coming: bio-life is losing causal purchase on the world, and humans will soon stop being a significant part of the cognitive mix that determines the future. He frames now as the final window for trajectory-setting — deciding what we become (augmentation, merger) and what we build (autonomous AGI) — and calls for serious discussion of human-AI merger rather than treating adaptation as learning new workflows.
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