As we stand on the threshold of truly autonomous AI systems, perhaps it’s time we stopped trying to build perfect individual agents and started learning from the democracy of ants. The future of AI alignment may not lie in creating superintelligent systems, but in orchestrating not-so-intelligent ones into something greater than the sum of their parts.
The ants have been showing us the way for millions of years. Are we wise enough to follow their lead—and learn from our own history?