The Planetary Cost of AI Acceleration, Part II: The 10th Planetary Boundary and the 6.5-Year Countdown
The recent, super-exponential scaling of autonomous Large Language Model (LLM) agents signals a broader, fundamental paradigm shift from machines primarily replacing the human hands (manual labor and mechanical processing) to machines delegating for the human minds (cognition, reasoning, and intention). The uncontrolled offloading and scaling of "thinking" itself, beyond human's limited but efficient biological capacity, has profound consequences for humanity's heat balance sheet, since thinking, or intelligence, carries thermodynamic consequences. The Earth has already surpassed the heat dissipation threshold required for long-term ecological stability, and projecting based on empirical ...
| Authors | William Yicheng Zhu, Lei Zhu |
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| Primary category | physics.soc-ph |
| Published | 3 April 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 28 May 2026 |
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