Short‑generation AIs Speed Cultural Change

AI systems (or engineered humans) with much shorter generational cycles could compress cultural evolution, producing social change at rates unfamiliar to current generations. That mismatch may provoke governance demands not because of concrete harms but because people claim a right to a familiar tempo of change. — If plausible, this reframes AI governance debates from narrow safety and capability questions to contests over who gets to set the cultural pace and which kinds of minds count as legitimate descendants.