maszyny: AI aftermath scenarios

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Some scholars believe that advances in artificial intelligence, or AI, will eventually lead to a semi-apocalyptic post-scarcity and post-work economy where intelligent machines can outperform humans in almost every, if not every, domain. The questions of what such a world might look like, and whether specific scenarios constitute utopias or dystopias, are the subject of active debate.

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The technological singularity, often simply called the singularity, is a hypothetical event in which technological growth accelerates beyond human control, producing unpredictable changes in human civilization. According to the most popular version of the singularity hypothesis, I. J. Good's intelligence explosion model of 1965, an upgradable intelligent agent could eventually enter a positive feedback loop of successive self-improvement cycles; more intelligent generations would appear more and more rapidly, causing an explosive increase in intelligence that culminates in a powerful superintelligence, far surpassing human intelligence. Prominent technologists and academics have historicall…

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Testing the Infinity Economy: Empirical Evidence from AI-Driven Generative Systems, Digital Platforms, and Emerging Post-Scarcity Dynamics. The rapid development of artificial intelligence, digital infrastructures, and autonomous production systems has generated increasing debate about the future direction of economic organization. For centuries, economic thought has been primarily concerned with scarcity: how societies allocate limited resources among unlimited needs. However, recent technological transformations reveal the emergence of new economic dynamics based on scalability, information abundance, network effects, and continuous value generation. This article empirically investigates…

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Towards an Infinity Economy: Designing Post-Scarcity Economic Systems in the Age of AI and Quantum Abundance. The foundational premise of economic theory — the management of scarce resources — is reaching obsolescence in the face of unprecedented technological transformations. The convergence of artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous production systems, decentralized quantum energy, and post-monetary value infrastructures signals the emergence of an economic landscape no longer governed by scarcity but by self-sustaining abundance. This article introduces the theoretical blueprint for what we term the Infinity Economy: a scalable, AI-driven, and continuously self-generating economic syste…

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Towards an Infinity Economy: Designing Post-Scarcity Economic Systems in the Age of AI and Quantum Abundance. For more than two centuries, economic theory has been grounded in the assumption that scarcity constitutes the fundamental condition of human societies and that the principal task of economic systems is the efficient allocation of finite resources. However, the accelerating convergence of artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous production systems, advanced robotics, additive manufacturing, decentralized digital infrastructures, and emerging quantum technologies increasingly challenges this foundational premise. These technological transformations are creating unprecedented capaciti…

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Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic diseases, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion, or some other general disaster. Post-apocalyptic fiction is set in a world or civilization after such a disaster. The time frame may be immediately after the catastrophe, focusing on the travails or psychology of survivors, or considerably later, often including the theme that the existence of pre-catastrophe civilization has been forg…

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Food's future: sustainability and agricultural robotics.. Our global food system faces growing challenges such as population growth, climate change, resource constraints, and food loss. This set of threats has begun to erode the stability of food security efforts and challenge the long-term sustainability goals outlined by global organizations. To respond effectively, the sector needs concrete and forward-looking innovations that reflect the objectives of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations (UN), especially the commitment in Goal 2 to eliminate hunger. In this study, we examine how agricultural robotics can support the shift toward more resilient and sustainable f…

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Integrating artificial intelligence and conventional approaches in sugarcane bagasse biorefineries: a review towards a circular bioeconomy.. Sugarcane bagasse (SCB), with global production exceeding 200 million metric tons per year, has emerged as a key lignocellulosic feedstock at the heart of the circular bioeconomy, offering a sustainable, low-carbon alternative to fossil resources through production of biofuels, biochemicals, biopolymers, and bioelectricity. This review critically examines the interplay between conventional bioprocess approaches and artificial intelligence (AI) methods in SCB-based biorefineries. It highlights that while traditional thermochemical and biochemical routes…

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AI Take-Over in Literature and Culture: Truth, Post-Truth, and Simulation. In a world that is increasingly lost to narrative building, deep fakes, simulation of realities and dissemination of fake news generated by artificial intelligence (AI), we are moving towards a post-truth era. Our thoughts are being manipulated and twisted with (mis)information for the benefit of people in power; thus, our consent is being manufactured with the aid of AI, resulting in ideological imperialism. In such a scenario, when AI is slowly taking control over the planet and creating our digital replicas by cloning our consciousness, what will our future look like? Humans’ creative pursuits have already predict…

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Trusting Intelligent Machines: Deepening Trust Within Socio-Technical Systems. Intelligent machines have reached capabilities that go beyond a level that a human being can fully comprehend without sufficiently detailed understanding of the underlying mechanisms. The choice of moves in the game Go (generated by Deep Mind?s Alpha Go Zero [1]) are an impressive example of an artificial intelligence system calculating results that even a human expert for the game can hardly retrace [2]. But this is, quite literally, a toy example. In reality, intelligent algorithms are encroaching more and more into our everyday lives, be it through algorithms that recommend products for us to buy, or whole sys…

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Traduttore, traditore: can machines outperform humans in translation accuracy?. Este estudo examina a eficácia e precisão da Tradução Automática (TA) em comparação com a Tradução Humana (TH), empregando a métrica de Avaliação Bilíngue Sob Estudo (BLEU) para avaliação. O campo rapidamente evolutivo da tradução de línguas, especialmente no contexto de aprendizado de máquina e Inteligência Artificial (IA), exige uma avaliação crítica da TA versus TH. Nosso objetivo é comparar a qualidade das traduções geradas por máquina do Google Tradutor, DeepL e ChatGPT 3.5 com a TH no par de idiomas inglês-espanhol. O estudo utiliza a métrica BLEU, comparando traduções de máquina e humanas com um padrão pr…

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An AI takeover is a theorized future event, often depicted in fiction, in which autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) systems acquire the ability to supersede human decisions. This could occur through economic manipulation, infrastructure control, or direct intervention, leading to de facto governance. Scenarios range from gradual economic dominance, as automation supplants the human workforce, up to a sudden or aggressive global takeover by a robot uprising or other forms of rogue AI. Although stories of AI takeovers have long been popular in science fiction, recent advances in the field have heightened concern about such scenarios among experts and the public. Dario Amodei, CEO of the f…