Reminds me of https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/swarm-intelligence

Partially articulated idea:

AI is like microbes in the ecology of thought. Human attention might be at the top of the food chain but the underlying intelligence interactions are complex just like in the food web.

AI seems impressive but that’s because you can see the activity. Bacteria are crazy impressive but we ignore them because we can’t see them.

from And Yet Here We Are 🚀 ↗ · snapshot of v1