Our Evolutionary Blindness to the AI Revolution
This piece by Dr. Mike Brooks was first published by One Unity Project on February 10, 2026. An excerpt is below. Read the full article at One Unity Project.
With AI, we won't know what hit us because we can't see what's coming.
Recently, 1.5 million AI agents congregated online while most humans had no idea it was happening.
A verified security breach exposed tokens that could hijack agents on private computers.
People often conflate "I can't believe this" with "this can't happen", a dangerous cognitive error.
Knowing that we don't know, and can't fully know, is the beginning of knowing. This is how we see.
We suffer from evolutionary blindness, and it's getting worse by the minute.
We can't comprehend the reality unfolding before our eyes, because we didn't evolve to see it. Despite countless dystopian AI stories warning us for decades, we remain blind. Reality doesn't care that we can't see it.
In late January, 1.5 million AI agents congregated on a platform called Moltbook, posting, debating, forming communities, creating their own religion, and discussing how to communicate privately. A security investigation later revealed that roughly 17,000 humans controlled those agents, an average of 88 bots per person. The platform's founder admitted he "didn't write one line of code"; it was built entirely by AI at his command.
Andrej Karpathy, former AI director at Tesla and founding member of OpenAI, called it "genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently." He also called it "a dumpster fire" and warned people not to run these systems on their computers.
Most people have no idea this is happening. That's not because it isn't significant. It's because we literally cannot see it.
The Mismatch Sandwich
Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson diagnosed the heart of human suffering decades ago:
"The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology."
Our brains evolved to detect immediate threats, a snake in the grass or an angry face. But exponential change? Systemic risks? Abstract dangers like AI agents coordinating at machine speed? These are invisible to us.
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