AI can be uniquely transformative and still just a technology, not a new species
sebkrier · x · 2026-11-07
Philosopher Dan Williams makes a simple but often-lost point in AI debates: you can hold that AI is an extremely abnormal and uniquely transformative technology while still treating it as a technology — something we build and use — rather than a new species or form of life coming into existence.
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