This is my opinion, my view and how I set my life to embrace it and immerse into it.
I actually wrote a piece about it a day ago.
https://blog.tarab.ai/p/evolution-mi-and-the-forgotten-human
Sorry for the “self promotion”, but it’s a direct relation to the topic.
Perhaps there is some survivorship impact from AI on different species on different planets, but from our vantage point we have no idea whether it matters at all and we wouldn’t for a long time.
I feel like you may not understand natural selection all that well. Please read more Dawkins.
Capitalism, for one. Also social pressure on scientists to succeed at their chosen field. Throw in a strong dose of international politics (we better get it before the other guys), and there you have a strong set of selective pressures driving humans to create AI.
Will indeed read more Dawkins. It’s always a pleasure.
We could have developed like trees and plants or mushrooms, with no brain and less pain, perhaps, and keep our DNA moving along forward. But it happened to be that way.