Disaster Management of Human Resources

Abstract

We present a potential global disaster scenario never witnessed in the history of mankind — a phase transition in societal structure caused by AI-powered, large scale automation and the common man’s inability to cope and align with the inevitable socio-economic forces unleashed by automation. First, we explain the inevitability of this disaster; second, we explain the magnitude of the disaster; and third, available options in managing the disaster. The principal contributors to the impending disaster is an unavoidable socio-economic phase transition that we infer from a fundamental result in graph theory in mathematics and the magnitude of the disaster is estimated based on the logistic map in chaos theory. The scope of managing the disaster will be extremely limited and restricted largely to the survival of the creatively intelligent among the human species. This disaster will be global, its scale will be massive, and human society will find itself grossly underprepared to deal with it because of its psychological reluctance to accept it as a possibility. That possibility arises because of humanity’s unrelenting march towards a technological singularity as foreseen by Ray Kurzweil, and it is expected to occur within three decades.