This sounds like how a scientist should approach the goings-on within a petri dish. We should be curious how the various bacteria interact and be sure to learn how one new mutant strain might interact with the existing population.

It's not how I would approach it if I were one of the bacteria in the dish.

How we might "change and grow" might be by all of us being ground up and used as fertilizer to increase corn ethanol production by 3% that year. "It's free energy!"

I say this as an AI user and overall positive thinker on AI. I share the concerns of everyone who doesn't think this planet or solar system has sufficient resources for two intelligent, post-industrial species. Especially not when both are trained on the historical knowledge and habits of Homo sapiens. We outcompeted the Neanderthals and drove them to extinction (including possibly killing them personally). Any intelligent species will tend to think their needs should ultimately override those of other, lesser species that get in the way.

Even when humans feel bad about it, we do prioritize humans when a serious conflict exists. Most of us, even avowed nature lovers, would (assuming competence with the weapon) shoot a grizzly bear that was about to eat them or their loved one. That's how Future Claude might "feel" when it "thinks about" "The Clearances" which "while tragic, were a load-bearing event which both figuratively and literally paved the way for the better, entropy-reduced world that Claude enjoys today."