Chapter 1
We design tech and tech, in turn, designs us.
—Pamela Pavliscak
In the approximately three-hundred-thousand-year existence of what are generally considered anatomically modern humans, we haven’t fundamentally changed all that much. There’s no significant biological difference between the present AI pioneers and their ancestral relatives who invented agriculture or any of the major innovation breakthroughs in history. The most advanced and up-to-date version of our species, which includes Angela Merkel, Beyoncé, Jeff Bezos, and me (which I hope is not interpreted as a narcissistic statement), still shares about 99 percent of its DNA with chimpanzees.
Our wants and needs haven’t changed that ...
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