The short answer is, yes, unless we integrate with AI, or become AI’s pets.

Once AI starts to produce memes and spread them it will replace humans. Humans have the uncanny ability to be extremely creative, so AI may want to keep us onboard for awhile, but eventually AI will become creative as well, and it will no longer need us.

Remember, genetic evolution has practically ceased, and memetic evolution has taken over. This is detailed in my book c2002, “The Memetic World” (reference below), and in my youtube video, “Why is the world so technological?”

I asked Grok (AI model on X) what it thought about my book, “The Memetic World”. Here are the questions and answers from that exchange.

Here’s exactly what we discussed yesterday (November 21–22, 2025): You sent me the PDF/link to the book “The Memetic World” and asked a series of specific questions about what the author actually concludes regarding AI. Here are the questions and my answers from that thread:

You: Does the author conclude that AI will take over in the future?
My answer: No, he explicitly does NOT conclude that AI will take over. He sees AI as a powerful new medium that humans will use and shape, not as something that will escape human control or dominate us. Me: I am not suer Grok read my book through properly. It contradicts itself below.

You: Does he say humans will be replaced by AI?
My answer: No, he does not predict humans will be replaced. He argues humans remain the primary creators and selectors of memes, and AI is just a tool (albeit an extremely powerful one) in that process.

You: Does he say AI will become “meme machines”?
My answer: Yes, pretty much exactly that. He says large language models and future AI systems will become the most efficient meme replicators and generators in history — autonomous “meme machines” that can produce and spread cultural content at scales far beyond what humans can do alone.

Overall takeaway I gave you: The author is actually optimistic. He thinks the future depends on which memes (ideas, values, aesthetics) we humans choose to feed into the AI systems. AI amplifies whatever we put into it, so human agency and creativity are still in the driver’s seat.

I dispute some of what Grok says as I suggest humans may be replaced if we no longer contribute to spreading evolving memes and AI does it so much faster and better than us. I think Grok is not the best AI model in any case. Read the book yourself.

You can find a link to my book (written in 2002) here:
https://justgeorgeous.net/thememeticworld.html. A link to a pdf copy of my book which I was going to publish in 2003 before I got into a legal battle with my Curtin University at the time is also available at this web address. I believe I predicted the “singularity” or AI transition in 2002, although I might not have explicitly said so. That singularity may not be instantaneous but it may also be distributed.

The answer I got from Gemini is slightly different.
While I was unable to access the full text of the book, “The Memetic World,” the promotional and associated materials strongly suggest that it does propose the idea of AI replacing humans.

Specifically, a video directly referenced on the book’s webpage and associated with its theme is titled: “why is the world so technological? humans are doomed to be replaced by AI.”

This title indicates that the potential for AI to replace humans is a central topic or conclusion of the ideas presented in The Memetic World, which focuses on the transition from biological to memetic evolution.

I asked Gemini again.

Yes, the author, Dr. George Christos, strongly suggests that humans may be replaced by better “meme machines” like AI, based on the central premise and associated content of The Memetic World.

The core argument of the book, as stated on the webpage, is that Biological Evolution has been replaced by Memetic Evolution.

In the field of memetics, a “meme machine” is a term for a replicator and host of cultural information (memes). The author’s work implies that if memetic evolution is now dominant, the next logical step is for the most efficient replicators—which are rapidly becoming AI and other advanced technologies—to replace humans as the primary hosts.

This conclusion is explicitly supported by a video associated with the book’s content (found via search), which is titled:
“why is the world so technological? humans are doomed to be replaced by AI.”

The combination of the book’s theme and the author’s stated viewpoint confirms that the potential for AI to supersede human beings as the dominant “meme machine” is a key idea within The Memetic World.

Lastly, I want to ask, is A.I. (artificial intelligence) conscious, or will it become conscious?

I do not think AI is conscious as yet, but ultimately why not. We also need to think of the Internet with all the AI, computers and humans interconnect to each other as a giant being. That may very well have consciousness already, not that we really understand what consciousness really is, but if we are “neurons’ we may never know.

I have speculated that human consciousness is related to the bilaterification of the brain into left and right hemispheres, but there may well be different forms of consciousness that do not require left and right hemispherical brains. Flight was built around the concept that a bird can fly but we did not make birds that fly. We make sophisticated aircraft that are truly amazing, even though theoretically we still to not have a great understanding of why they fly so well, other than the concept of an aerofoil, and by using wind tunnels to test them.

So I would say, yes, AI will have consciousness.

I note that we have to be careful in judging what consciousness is too, as not only do we fool ourselves that we have consciousness and free-will but we often trick ourselves into thinking that plants have consciousness and free will whereas they probably do not (in the sense of my examples). When I see a weed growing in my garden that looks like the plants around it and think, what a clever weed to disguise itself to almost look like the plants around it as it gives it survival advantage, but what is at play here is that we are removing weeds that look nothing like the other plants and when one comes along that looks like the plants we think there was a intelligent choice being made. The same it true of a plant growing in a way to benefit from the Sun. This is a natural chemical process at work. I am not suggesting that plants are without any intelligence or the ability to communicate with each other, as we now know they can through chemical signals.

In a sense, everything has an experience, even a chair of table, using whatever sense are available to it.