Finally, an analysis from authors who truly understand evolutionary psychology. This is the lens you need to recognize the unpredictable threat posed by the reckless pursuit of the general AI “holy grail” that tech CEOs are sleepwalking toward with either feigned concern or just plain ignorance. Evolutionary psychology reminds us that our minds are adapted to an ancestral environment that no longer exists — one shaped by small groups, direct feedback, and survival challenges of the Pleistocene. Here we are thinking we will successfully replicate and stably preserve this ancestrally tuned brain of ours in increasingly inscrutable AI versions. But the most alien environment of all may still lie ahead: the world that emerges after the release of truly general AI. Few people grasp how profound that mismatch can be, and so society may only learn its lesson through catastrophe. Even as this unfolds, many still cling to old comforts and beliefs, overlooking the deeper, more unsettling truths about who we are and what we are unleashing.