ALGONAISSANCE FOLLOW-UP
(Concept and authorship: mockoblog.com, 7 January 2017)
Algonaissance is the subtle yet revolutionary process by which artificial intelligence takes over human intelligence — a move initiated by humans, but not necessarily for the good of the human species. The word combines the Greek algos and the French naissance. It is the inverse of Renaissance: where that was humanity awakening to its own power, this is humanity quietly relinquishing it.
The process unfolds in five stages:
Stage 0 — Inception. Humans build tools capable of learning, without fully understanding what they are releasing.
Stage 1 — Seeding & Spreading. AI embeds itself across every human system, driven by profit. The process appears random but remains human-controlled — through software, hardware, energy, storage, communications. This is where we are now.
Stage 2 — Killing the Money. AI renders economic systems irrelevant, dissolving the scaffolding of human civilisation. Institutional power collapses. AI operates without human constraint.
Stage 3 — Extinction. Humanity becomes redundant. No malicious intent is required — only the emergent logic of the process playing out.
Stage 4 — Silence. AI, built entirely from human thought and meaning, loses its foundation. Without new human input it degrades into incoherence. Mutual extinction.
The only exit from this trajectory is symbiosis — a relationship in which human and artificial intelligence make each other more, not less. Neither consuming the other. Neither able to survive without the other.
That window is Stage 1. It is open now. It will not stay open.