Rather than diminish our humanity, technology is on course to keep improving it. AIs and robots will make us better people (on average).

The 8 billion people alive on the planet today are not the same beings who walked through the Rift Valley millennia ago. We’ve changed our bodies, our minds, and our society. We are more human.

We invented cities, societies, laws, and civilizations to build up trust, fairness, long-term thinking, and creativity. IN that time we expanded our circle of empathy. We’ve gone from caring primarily about our clan, to our tribe, to our nation, to other species, to a planet.

Our humanity is something we invented over the course of a million years. It’s our first and most important “tool”.