The word 'race' according to my dictionary means 'the major divisions of human kind based on particular characteristics'.

But there is another meaning to the word 'race' of course, and that is defined as 'competition to determine the fastest over a set course'.

This latter meaning seems to have replaced the former. Especially where a blinkered, tunnel vision view of the future has become hardwired to an artificial intelligence world in which everything is designed to the bespoke demands of left brain dominated computer nerds.

For these psychotic individuals, there is a race on to develop an artificial human entity essentially indistinguishable from a robot. A Transhuman.

Amongst those at the forefront of pursuing this techno-human vision are Professor Yuval Noah Harari, chief advisor to Klaus Schwab and Sam Altman, founder of Open AI/ChatGPT.

Harari's vision is largely philosophical, tracing the evolution of the artificial intelligence boom and extrapolating from this an outcome of a cyborgian takeover of just about all work oriented planetary activity.

He generally sees this in the positive, believing a new species will emerge with the ability to access superhuman volumes of information and in this way acquire 'knowledge'.

In a recent interview he stated "AI will make it possible to enhance and upgrade humans."

Meaning – as we shall see later – upgrade them into being inhuman/non-human.

Altman comes at it from the post Silicon Valley (called 'cerebral valley') perspective. Wikipedia states, as part of a longer review:

"Altman co-founded Tools For Humanity in 2019, a company which builds and distributes systems designed to scan people's eyes to provide authentication and verify proof of personhood to counter fraud. People who agree to have their eyes scanned are compensated with a cryptocurrency called Worldcoin. Tools for Humanity describes its cryptocurrency as similar to universal basic income."