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  _Cultural evolution_ is the gradual change, over time, in a society's ideas,
  language, beliefs, and practices — a process that, in this channel's
  conversations with Reid Hoffman, is being actively reshaped by AI and
  technology as they redefine what it means to be human.
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# \_cultural evolution\_

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## Definition

_Cultural evolution_ is the gradual change, over time, in a society's ideas, language, beliefs, and practices — a process that, in this channel's conversations with Reid Hoffman, is being actively reshaped by AI and technology as they redefine what it means to be human.

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.- 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.