# Maini Is on Team Human by Vishal Maini > "I am on team human. I want all of us to live long, healthy, and happy lives, and I want children born today to have some of the best lives ever lived. That is within reach. I do not know what it will look like: Earth could remain ours as a kind of nature preserve, AI development could slow or change course, or the outcome could be very different. As a human being, I want to live a human life and I am attached to the old ways." > **— Vishal Maini**, *Palisade Research interview, September 29, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Recording and complete contiguous answer:** [Palisade Research interview at 30:01](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S_Ay87dEy0&t=1801s) — Maini develops the proposition preserved in the poster text. The transcription removes verbal filler and immediate repetition, repairs punctuation, and normalizes obvious caption errors without joining separate speakers or noncontiguous turns. - **Canonical transcript conversion:** [[research/Vishal Maini - Humanity's Machine Successor and the AI Transition|Humanity's Machine Successor — Vishal Maini on Recursive Self-Improvement and the AI Transition]] — preserves the complete source unit, speaker attribution, editorial method, and evidence boundary used for this Reminder. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Greatest Transformation in Human History|The Greatest Transformation in Human History]] - **Article:** [[articles/Longevity Escape Velocity|Longevity Escape Velocity]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Human Future with Advanced AI|Human Future with Advanced AI]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Vishal Maini|Vishal Maini]] - [[wiki/Team Human|Team Human]] - [[wiki/Posthumanism|Posthumanism]] - [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "I am on team human. I want all of us to live long, healthy, and happy lives, and I want children born today to have some of the best lives ever lived. That is within reach. I do not know what it will look like: Earth could remain ours as a kind of nature preserve, AI development could slow or change course, or the outcome could be very different. As a human being, I want to live a human life and I am attached to the old ways." — Vishal Maini, Palisade Research interview, September 29, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-vishal-maini-team-human ```