2 papers
physics.soc-ph2026
The Planetary Cost of AI Acceleration, Part II: The 10th Planetary Boundary and the 6.5-Year Countdown
William Yicheng Zhu, Lei Zhu
The recent, super-exponential scaling of autonomous Large Language Model (LLM) agents signals a broader, fundamental paradigm shift from machines primarily replacing the human hand…
physics.soc-ph2026
The Planetary Cost of AI Acceleration: A Thermodynamic Outlook on Four Possible Paths Forward
William Yicheng Zhu, Lei Zhu
The artificial intelligence industry is not an isolated economic phenomenon; it is the current physical substrate for a broader, multi-billion-year process: the evolution of an abs…