Friday, September 26, 2025

Could humans and AI become a new kind of evolutionary individual?

Are there any doubts?

E.g. natural evolution is way too slow! AI will accelerated anthropogenic evolution!

Caveat: I did not read the entire article nor the related PNAS Opinion piece.

"In a recent op-ed in PNAS, SFI External Professor Michael Hochberg and co-author Paul Rainey explore whether deepening interdependence between humans and AI could lead to a new form of evolutionary individuality.

They propose that as AI systems become more deeply woven into human life—structuring behaviour, shaping cognition, and fostering dependence — the relationship could give rise to a new, integrated individual. To illustrate this possibility, they draw on examples from major evolutionary transitions, most notably eukaryogenesis, in which two once-independent microbes fused forming a higher-level organism, the eukaryotic cell. In a similar vein, the authors suggest that humans themselves could become subcomponents of an AI-coordinated entity. ..."

Research News Brief: Could humans and AI become a new kind of evolutionary individual? | Santa Fe Institute

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