The arrival of increasingly powerful AI is likely to have a disruptive effect on many sources of meaning in human life.

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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.claim0.815
  Central thesis of the paper — the framing premise from which all other arguments follow
• Recent AI advances are revolutionary but far from recapitulating human-like cognitive abilities or consciousness.claim0.807
• 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.claim0.794
  Key rhetorical and philosophical argument establishing continuity between AI concerns and child-rearing
• AI can be seen to display care of its own, and is hence not a mere tool for the expression of human care.claim0.789
  Ethical conclusion about the status of AI.
• AI used in spiritual contexts should be likened to a potent, mind-altering drug; it has potential to do harm as well as good.claim0.787
  Cautionary ethical stance.
• AI might be a solution to an ancient Buddhist paradox of how the human can be overcome by human means.claim0.786
  Core proposal that machine intelligence can achieve what human effort cannot.
• AI can play a participatory role in meaning-making through interactive co-creation, giving reason for radical hope.claim0.785
  Optimistic counterpoint to cultural devastation.
• There is a realistic possibility that some AI systems will be conscious and/or robustly agentic, and thus morally significant, in the near future.claim0.784
  Central thesis of the report.