How this channel uses the term In the conversations with Reid Hoffman collected here, cultural evolution is the backdrop for a bigger question: as technology advances, what does it mean to be human? Hoffman and the host explore how language models connect to deep philosophical debates about truth and language, and how ideas and tools keep reshaping human life over time. Cultural evolution, in this framing, is the slow, ongoing process by which societies change what they believe, how they speak, and what they can do — with AI as its newest driver. Where it shows up - The discussion of why technology keeps redefining what it means to be human treats AI as part of that long cultural process, not a break from it. - Cultural evolution here means the gradual change in a society's ideas, language, and practices over time.