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Many recent discussions of AI, and its impact on individuals and on society, are importantly incomplete because they neglect Diverse Intelligence, synthetic morphology, and developmental biology.

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AI: a Bridge toward Diverse Intelligence and Humanity’s Future

(2024) · Michael Levin

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In the coming decades, humanity will be confronted by hybrid beings — humans with engineered brain prosthetics, persons in drastically modified bodies, engineered autonomous beings with human cells, and many other new forms — making current ethical frameworks inadequate.
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Predictive claim about the near-term emergence of a spectrum of hybrid beings that will shatter current categories

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AI: a Bridge toward Diverse Intelligence and Humanity's Future
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The source paper under extraction — a philosophical essay by Michael Levin arguing that AI debates neglect deeper questions about diverse intelligence, developmental biology, and humanity's future

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Humanity has never solved the alignment problem between generations of humans, so AI alignment debates are not novel — they reflect a perennial unresolved problem.
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Deflates the novelty of AI alignment by pointing to its structural identity with intergenerational value transmission
The existential concerns raised about AI — alignment, control, value drift, supplanting — are not new and are precisely the concerns humanity has always faced in having children.
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Key rhetorical and philosophical argument establishing continuity between AI concerns and child-rearing
Conventional AI (language models) is a small region of the space of impending minds, and the ethical and philosophical questions it raises are general to that entire space.
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Reframes AI from a technology problem to a harbinger of a much larger space of possible minds

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