Google AI researcher @bratton on why AI is causing humanity's next identity crisis: A new “Copernican trauma” that forces us to rethink what it means to be human. "A lot of the anxiety about AI right now is an example of what I call a Copernican trauma. These moments in history where we figure out that we’re not the center of the system that we thought we were." "Heliocentrism was a Copernican trauma. Darwinism was a Copernican trauma. Neuroscience has been a Copernican trauma, that thinking…