The end of humanity’s reign?

Physicist Anthony Aguirre warns that humans may soon become the least influential actors in their own civilization.

For centuries we’ve believed that technology is our servant, a set of tools we fully command. But artificial intelligence challenges this assumption at its core. What if our confidence in “human control” is the real illusion?

In his new paper “Control Inversion,” physicist and cosmologist Anthony Aguirre argues that if AI continues advancing along its current trajectory, decision-making power will drift away from people. Not because of rebellion or