Psychology Today | 05.10.2026 00:48Human at the Origin is what it sounds like: humans created artificial intelligence. We are the creators, the originators. Our intelligence is deep, very, very deep, shaped by a long evolutionary history. The architecture required to replicate it would be considerable. Our capacity to model aspects of it is remarkable, but are we anywhere in striking distance of igniting emergent consciousness, unplanned consciousness? The jury is still out, with dyed-in-the-wool AI engineers themselves running the gamut from "it's already here" to "glorified calculator."
