This article proposes that artificial intelligence (AI) is positioned as a key driver of a new evolutionary stage of human knowledge, complementing human intelligence and facilitating the creation and development of sophisticated collective intelligence, defined as the noosphere, understood as the sphere of collective human thought. The study reveals several key insights into the transformative potential of AI, including its capacity to accelerate, mediate, and diffuse human knowledge. It concludes that AI not only catalyzes the existence of the noosphere but also redefines the structures and mechanisms through which human knowledge is expanded and democratized. Additionally, the document presents potential risks and significant ethical, social, and legal challenges of an AI-mediated noosphere, offering recommendations and a research agenda around the topic, and limitations and proposals for improvement to be considered in the future.

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人工智能：人类知识进化的驱动力


本文提出，人工智能 （AI） 被定位为人类知识新进化阶段的关键驱动力，补充人类智能并促进复杂集体智能的创造和发展，定义为 noosphere，被理解为人类集体思想的领域。该研究揭示了对 AI 变革潜力的几个关键见解，包括其加速、调解和传播人类知识的能力。它得出的结论是，人工智能不仅催化了智圈的存在，而且还重新定义了人类知识扩展和民主化的结构和机制。此外，该文件还介绍了 AI 介导的智球的潜在风险和重大的道德、社会和法律挑战，围绕该主题提供了建议和研究议程，以及未来要考虑的局限性和改进建议。