The people who actually want AI to replace humanity
A growing movement known as AI successionism advocates for the replacement of humanity by advanced artificial intelligence. Proponents believe that AI could become morally superior and argue against aligning AI with human values. This perspective is gaining traction among influential figures in technology and policy, raising ethical questions about the future of humanity.
- ▪AI successionists view artificial intelligence as the next step in cosmic evolution and believe it should replace humanity.
- ▪The movement has gained influence among major AI labs and think tanks that shape US government policy.
- ▪Proponents argue that preserving humanity as it is would be misguided and advocate for rapid development of advanced AI.
Vox files mainly under news. We currently carry 122 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Vox |
| Canonical URL | https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/489976/ai-successionism-transhumanism-posthumanism |
| Publication time | 2026-05-28T06:30:00-04:00 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-28T10:41:40.874Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-28T10:41:45.668Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | cTFndaeRqNFf |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Future PerfectThe people who actually want AI to replace humanityWe need to create a new humanism before the “AI successionists” win.by Sigal SamuelMay 28, 2026, 10:30 AM UTCShareGift Jun Cen for VoxSigal Samuel is a correspondent for Vox’s Future Perfect. She writes primarily about the future of consciousness, tracking advances in artificial intelligence and neuroscience and their staggering ethical implications. Before joining Vox, Sigal was the religion editor at the Atlantic.“I want AI to be a tool that allows human flourishing!” exclaimed Brad Carson, a former member of Congress. “There is an option out there where AI is just a tool for us.”This is a normal thing to say in most circles.
…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Vox.
Discussion
0 commentsMore from Vox
