Snapshot · Modern Wisdom
Robert Wright had Eliezer Yudkowsky on his podcast 15 years ago, when Yudkowsky was mid-transition from singularity optimist to AI doomer — and Wright wasn't persuaded then, but is more respectful now.
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Chris Williamson opens with a personal acknowledgment that Robert Wright's The Moral Animal is the most influential book he has ever read, crediting it with launching his entire intellectual trajectory in evolutionary psychology and the study of human nature. He then poses the obvious question: why has a thinker so identified with biological evolution pivoted to writing about artificial intelligence? Wright's answer is two-pronged. First, AI is itself a product of evolution and is actively evolving — a connection most commentators entirely miss. Second, The Moral Animal was fundamentally about the human mind and its built-in moral biases; since AI now does much of what human minds do, the same framework applies. And if humanity is to navigate the AI era wisely, Wright argues, it will have to grapple more successfully with tribalism and self-serving moral cognition — the same psychological territory his earlier work mapped. The stage is set: this conversation is not just about technology, it is about what kind of species we are, and whether we can become better ones in time.
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