Humanlike: A Defense of AI Rights -- Chapter Zero

The Splintered Mind · 1 day ago · discuss

In July, I began circulating a draft of my next book, Humanlike: A Defense of AI Rights. I set it aside for a couple of months to get some distance on it while it accumulated comments. I'll soon dive back in for a fresh round of revisions. Comments are still very welcome! As a teaser, here's the current draft of Chapter Zero: The Cambrian Explosion – how slow, how subtle! About 540 million years ago, in the Cambrian period, most of the major animal phyla arose – arthropods (becoming insects, spiders, crustaceans), mollusks (becoming snails, octopuses, oysters), annelids (becoming worms,...