Fertility‑and‑AI Posthuman Tipping

When persistently low birth rates coincide with rapid deployment of human‑augmenting technologies (AI, reproductive engineering, cognitive prostheses), societies may cross a qualitative threshold where institutions, family formation, and the biological composition of future cohorts change in ways that are not predictable from past experience. The result is a ‘posthuman’ transition driven by the interaction of demographic contraction and capability diffusion, not by AI alone. — If true, policy must be reframed to jointly manage demographic strategy (immigration, family policy) and technology governance (access, equity, safety) because each amplifies the other’s long‑run social effects.