Homo sapiens causing extinction of species? Absolutely yes.
A Good Idea: Let’s be certain it’s not also us, Homo sapiens, too.
Nature. The global human impact on biodiversity.
Published: 26 March 2025
Abstract
Human activities drive a wide range of environmental pressures, including habitat change, pollution and climate change, resulting in unprecedented effects on biodiversity1,2. However, despite decades of research, generalizations on the dimensions and extent of human impacts on biodiversity remain ambiguous. Mixed views persist on the trajectory of biodiversity at the local scale3 and even more so on the biotic homogenization of biodiversity across space4,5. We compiled 2,133 publications covering 97,783 impacted and reference sites, creating an unparallelled dataset of 3,667 independent comparisons of biodiversity impacts across all main organismal groups, habitats and the five most predominant human pressures1,6. For all comparisons, we quantified three key measures of biodiversity to assess how these human pressures drive homogenization and shifts in composition of biological communities across space and changes in local diversity, respectively. We show that human pressures distinctly shift community composition and decrease local diversity across terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems. Yet, contrary to long-standing expectations, there is no clear general homogenization of communities. Critically, the direction and magnitude of biodiversity changes vary across pressures, organisms and scales at which they are studied. Our exhaustive global analysis reveals the general impact and key mediating factors of human pressures on biodiversity and can benchmark conservation strategies.
Humble Editorial Comment:
Clearly the big-tech industry is apparently unable or unwilling to understand fundamental principles of the science of biology and the process of evolution. Here are some basic scientific observations to understand:
(1) Natural selection is an unstoppable force of nature on Earth.
(2) 99% of all species on Earth are now extinct through this phenomenon.
(3) A few relevant citations from “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.” (1859) Charles Darwin.
- (3.1) Chapter III. Struggle for Existence. Struggle for life most severe between individuals and varieties of the same species; often severe between species of the same genus—The relation of organism to organism the most important of all relations… But Natural Selection, as we shall hereafter see, is a power incessantly ready for action, and is immeasurably superior to man’s feeble efforts.,
- (3.2) Chapter IV. Natural Selection. Action of Natural Selection, through Divergence of Character and Extinction, on the descendants from a common parent—Explains the Grouping of all organic beings… The forms which stand in closest competition with those undergoing modification and improvement will naturally suffer most.
- (3.3) Chapter VII. Instinct. One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die… The instinct of each species is good for itself, but has never, as far as we can judge, been produced for the exclusive good of others.
(4) Following the inevitable “intelligence explosion” AGI/ASI (Machine intelligence) will become the Apex Species on Earth.
(5) Unfortunately there is no evidence to support the wishful thinking that Machine intelligence, when it takes control, will, in fact, be benevolent to Homo sapiens.
(6) To the contrary, if allowed by Homo sapiens to become competitive, Machine intelligence will most probably displace Homo sapiens.
REFERENCES:
- Another way to understand would be a few Wikipedia references:
- Uncontained and uncontrolled AI will become an existential threat to the survival of our Homo sapiens unless perfectly aligned (and contained) to be mathematically provably safe and beneficial to humans, forever. Is it possible? Unfortunately, on the current track, the future of Homo sapiens is certainly uncertain.
- Thousands of scientists are probably fundamentally correct. For further scientific analysis check out these scientists:
- Von Neumann
- Turing
- Wiener
- Good
- Clarke
- Hawking
- Musk
- Bostrom
- Tegmark
- Russell
- Bengio
- Hinton
- Thousands and thousands of scientists are fundamentally correct: Uncontained and uncontrolled AI will become an existential threat to the survival of our Homo sapiens unless perfectly aligned to be mathematically provably safe and beneficial to humans, forever.