Can Transformative AI Shape a New Age for Our Civilization?

1 Introduction
2 Understanding and Perceiving AI
2.1. A Few Brushstrokes of History
Information Classification: General
o 2.1.1. The Early Turning Points
o 2.1.2. The Modern Turning Points
o 2.1.3. The AIâs Turn: the Great Hope
2.2. The Relevance of Ethical Perspectives in AI
o 2.2.1. Challenges in Translating Ethical Perspectives to AI
o 2.2.2. Reconciliation between Ethical Perspectives
o 2.2.3. Unpacking the Ethical Perspectives of the EU AI Act
3 From AI Today to the Challenges of TAI (page 26)
3.1. The Omnipresence of AI Today
o 3.1.1. A Time in the Shadows
o 3.1.2. AI Until Now
o 3.1.3. The AI Role in Our Civilization
3.2. Human Potholes in the Road to TAI
o 3.2.1. Cognitive and Data Biases
o 3.2.2. The Information Overload
o 3.2.3. Misalignment and The Enforcement of Human Oversight
o 3.2.4. Risk Aversion and Inertia
o 3.2.5. Overreliance on Human Expertise
o 3.2.6. The Perception of Futility of AI Ethics
o 3.2.7. Socio-Technical Disparities and Digital Divide
o 3.2.8. The Loss of Trust and Resistance
o 3.2.9. Diluted AI
o 3.2.10. Overregulation
o 3.2.11. Human Obsolescence
o 3.2.12. The AI-tocracy
3.3. Technical Potholes in the Road to TAI
o 3.3.1. The Capacity to Detect New Emerging Abilities
o 3.3.2. The Data Paradox
o 3.3.3. World Modeling
o 3.3.4. Sustainability, Physical Constraints, and Alternatives
o 3.3.5. A Stronghold for a Few
o 3.3.6. The Duality of Theoretical Foundations of Computation and AI
4 Opportunities and Perspectives (page 65)
4.1. Opportunities to Facilitate TAI
o 4.1.1. Some Technical Green Shoots
o 4.1.2. Some Non-Technical Green Shoots
4.2. A Great Hope for TAI: the âScience Explosionâ
4.3. Would We Need a New Ethical and Philosophical Perspective for TAI?
5 Reflections and Conclusions (page 76)
5.1. Discussion and Open Thoughts from the Community
5.2. Conclusion