AI RESEARCH
The Planetary Cost of AI Acceleration, Part II: The 10th Planetary Boundary and the 6.5-Year Countdown
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2604.04956v1 Announce Type: cross The recent, super-exponential scaling of autonomous Large Language Model (LLM) agents signals a broader, fundamental paradigm shift from machines replacing the human hands (manual labor and mechanical processing) to machines delegating for the human minds (thinking, reasoning, and intention). This uncontrolled offloading and scaling of "thinking" itself has profound consequences for humanity's heat balance sheet, since thinking, or intelligence, carries thermodynamic weight.