Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) / quote 67 of 68

AI and the Lamarckian evolution of our species

By engineering our own offspring, many have proposed that Artificial Intelligence can lead to the Lamarckian evolution of our species. In contrast to Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection, Lamarck proposed that evolution allows characteristics acquired over our lifetime to be transmitted to future generations.

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