What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have applied themselves to questions like this, considering how AI will alter lives โ often for better, sometimes for worse.
Speculating about genetic evolution might seem trivial compared with AIโs direct effects on individual lives. Brilliantย AI researchersย andย writersย are already focused on the way AI willย improve or diminishย the lives of people who are alive right now.
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The pioneering ecologistย Robert MacArthurย said โthere are worse things for a scientist than to be wrong. One is to be trivialโ.
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Evolutionary changes over many generations could well change or even diminish some of the human traits we cherish most, including friendship, intimacy, communication, trust and intelligence, because these are the traits AI engages most profoundly.
In a non-trivial way, that could alter what it means to be human.
