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The Impact of AI Avalanche on Society and Human Behavior
Petre Roman
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5313/2026.02.006
Institute of Applied Sciences, SWISS UMEF University, Geneva, Switzerland
SWISS-Central and Eastern Europe Center of Excellence Foundation, Bucharest, Romania
This paper is discussing several features of the impact of AI (artificial intelligence) on society and human behavior. It includes (1) the question if the AI can outperform the intelligent and creative capacity of humans, (2) if AI capabilities could show criticality and causal emergence, (3) the predictive capacity of AI, (4) the costs related to the learning process and operating AI, and (5) the loss of consensual reality and the rise of deepfakes in the AI era. AI involves considerable systemic risks impacting the social, economic, cultural, and environmental systems. Our will is kept in accordance with how the things around us are presented to us and that is precisely what AI is also doing. For us circumstances define a situation or a moment. For AI the circumstances are just statistical relationships. AI does not have its own values but incorporates the values on which it is trained. The imaginative gap between humans and AI is not just big; it’s of an essential nature. We want not just technology in the online world; we want a moral attitude.
AI capabilities, AI impact, creativity, brain, criticality, integrated information, causal emergence, predictive capacity, AI costs, risk, consensual reality
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