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AI could shrink our brains, evolutionary biologist predicts

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Evolutionary biologist Andrew Hammond : How might human evolution be altered by interactions with a world of rich AI diversity? He says seeing AI technologies diversify into all manner of applications looks a lot like the proliferation of microbes, plants and animals in an ecological landscape.

Hammond: Predictions are generally grim, pitting the fate of humans against a unitary (or unified) AI opponent.

Speculating about genetic evolution might seem trivial compared with AI 's direct effects on individual lives.

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.

In a non-trivial way, that could alter what it means to be human.

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