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Alex Thomas

Senior lecturer, University of East London

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“you can't really understand the modern AI industry without understanding transhumanism consciously or unconsciously. It has really kind of come to underpin the narratives that swirl around AI.”
Why Silicon Valley Wants to Leave Humanity BehindYour Undivided Attention, October 29, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Alex Thomas, the episode's guest, giving the third of three reasons transhumanism matters now.
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“I think that currently the richest and most powerful group of people on earth uh are pursuing an environmentally destructive plan to build technologies that need to surveil you to teach the the technology.”
Why Silicon Valley Wants to Leave Humanity BehindYour Undivided Attention, October 29, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Alex Thomas, near the end of the episode, describing where Thomas thinks society stands.
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    Why Silicon Valley Wants to Leave Humanity Behind

    In a 61-minute episode, Tristan Harris and the University of East London lecturer Alex Thomas argue that transhumanist and accelerationist ideas shape how leading AI figures talk and act. Thomas groups them as hierarchy, exit and scale; Harris plays a clip of Richard Sutton saying humanity should embrace succession by AI, and argues the public was never asked.