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Could advanced AI turn us into eyelash mites?

Ellsworth Toohey
May 19, 2025
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Demodex Folliculorum (eyelash mite) Kalcutta/shutterstock.com

What if humanity's future alongside superintelligent AI isn't extinction, but irrelevance? Science fiction writer Neal Stephenson dropped this mind-bending perspective at a recent New Zealand panel, comparing our potential future to microscopic creatures living in our eyelashes.

"The mites just…

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