{
  "id": 17704,
  "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03252-x",
  "title": "Beyond optimization: structural redundancy and the governance of human potential in the age of AI",
  "summary": "Debates on artificial general intelligence (AGI) often frame progress as a quantitative race toward human-level performance through scaling and optimization. This essay argues that such debates overlook a deeper asymmetry in design orientation between biological and artificial systems. Drawing on biological theory and recent discussions in AI & Society on embodiment, artificial abstraction, and distributed agency, I isolate redundancy as a structural variable linking these debates. Biological in",
  "authors": null,
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "regulation,biotech",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-09T05:10:05.170Z",
  "source_slug": "x-ai-society",
  "source_name": "AI & Society",
  "source_homepage": "https://link.springer.com/journal/146",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17704",
  "original_url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03252-x",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}