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pith:2026:4BVQL7DJKHET5MEM4EFUFYZZFP

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The Planetary Cost of AI Acceleration, Part II: The 10th Planetary Boundary and the 6.5-Year Countdown

Lei Zhu, William Yicheng Zhu

Without radical intervention, AI-driven heat will breach planetary ecological thresholds in under 6.5 years even if Earth energy imbalance stays constant.

arxiv:2604.04956 v3 · 2026-04-03 · physics.soc-ph · cs.AI · cs.CY · physics.pop-ph

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C1strongest claim

without radical structural intervention, anthropogenic heat accumulation will breach critical planetary ecological thresholds in less than 6.5 years, even under the most ideal scenario where Earth Energy Imbalance (EEI) holds constant.

C2weakest assumption

The 6.5-year timeline and the claim that Earth has already surpassed heat thresholds rest on unspecified empirical data and the assumption that EEI remains constant, with no visible model or dataset to support the projection.

C3one line summary

Exponential AI scaling will breach critical planetary heat thresholds in less than 6.5 years, establishing AI integration as the tenth planetary boundary that either accelerates collapse or stabilizes the other nine.

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First computed	2026-05-29T02:05:44.323286Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e06b05fc6951c93eb08ce10b42e3392becf22d504b28ea43b0f67c173e028e62

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arxiv: 2604.04956 · arxiv_version: 2604.04956v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2604.04956 · pith_short_12: 4BVQL7DJKHET · pith_short_16: 4BVQL7DJKHET5MEM · pith_short_8: 4BVQL7DJ

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  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
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