This has come up twice in the last 24 hours, so I open my second reply:
I do not like to use biological metaphors to apply to systems we engineer. The fact and power of our engineering gives us a different kind of responsibility than we have towards true evolution. Even if you are thinking about how we are affecting our own biological evolution — the distribution of genes in our populations — by building and deploying AI, I would still argue our self consciousness — our sentience — makes this more like engineering and less like evolving.
Look at what the British and American governments have been doing to their own state capacity, and think about to what extent we have enabled this situation with AI.
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| Picture from the Musée Hergé, in Louvain-la-Neuve (where I received an honorary doctorate in February) |
Related:
- Do we collaborate with what we design?
- tl;dr NO! (that's an academic article)
- Then what is the role of human agency in face of AI?
- AI only has a face if we give it one, but here's a 12 bullet point blogpost about human agency and responsible use of generative and conventional AI.
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