Under group selection, AI complementarity can prevail—because groups that preserve human variation explore more, and perform better over time.
Strong group boundaries, institutions, and norms can act as a safeguard against long-run cultural decline.
Qiankun Zhong
New preprint with @thomasfmueller.bsky.social Julian Garcia @iyadrahwan.bsky.social: Group Selection as a Safeguard Against AI Substitution. arxiv.org/pdf/2602.03541
