Artificial Intelligence (AI), Extended Phenotypes, and the Bio-Evolutionary Anthropocene Hypothesis

Humanity is a powerful force for planetary transformation in the Anthropocene. Choices related to human habits, cultural patterns, and technologies can influence Biosphere’s evolutionary paths, changing living and non-living things. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are a key anthropogenic mechanism and an expression of the extended human phenotype. The Technosphere is the material and functional expression of human culture and technology, which created AI systems and have immense transformative power. These technological tools can amplify the scale and intensity of many human activities and transformative power, as well as affect decision-making processes. The Bio-Evolutionary Anthropocene Hypothesis predictions will be profoundly affected by the spread and increasing influence of AI over anthropogenic processes and patterns. Then, AI systems, humans, and novel biological and technological things will interact within an evolutionary bias, leading to unexpected outcomes for Earth's evolution.