Alternative Intelligence: Outsourcing Cognition
We Outsourced Muscle 200 Years Ago. We Are About to Outsource Thinking. By Emmanuel Olimi Kasigazi In 2023, I wrote an article titled Alternative Intelligence about how humans are on the cusp of outsourcing thinking. Of course, almost no one read it, but my premise was simple and still valid: Humans are about to outsource intelligence itself, yet society remains fixated on the wrong aspects of this seismic shift. Years later and am listening to Sequoia Capital's :This is AGI: Sequoia AI Ascent 2026 Keynote and tehey essentially said the same thing. If we look at recent developments in artificial intelligence—specifically the explosive rise of autonomous agents and the shifting technological floor beneath our feet—that thesis is no longer just a prediction. It is our current reality. Human evolution has always been a story of delegation. For most of history, the physical work of the world was done by human and animal labor. For most of human history, thinking and cognition were ...