AI Singularity as Species Succession

This is a strong provocation, but it smuggles a lot of teleology into evolution that biology does not support.

• –Evolution does not aim at progress or preserve what came before; it selects for replication in specific environments, which is a different claim than "AI is the next stage."
• –The post captures a real AI discourse pattern: people often use "alignment" language to assume continuity, when the harder question is whether advanced systems will remain governable at all.
• –Treating loss of control as inevitable can be intellectually tidy, but it is also a convenient way to skip responsibility for safety, governance, and deployment choices.
• –The most defensible version of the argument is coevolution: humans, institutions, and AI systems may reshape one another, rather than one cleanly replacing the other.