Eutopia

EUTOPIA: Artificial Intelligence and the Path Toward a New Human Civilization

For nearly all of human history, scarcity has shaped everything: food, health, knowledge, housing, and time. In this work of futurology, Cristian Cruzat Valdes traces how humanity has fought scarcity since the Stone Age, through the agricultural revolution, the printing press, and the industrial age, and asks what happens when artificial intelligence, robotics, biotechnology, and abundant clean energy begin to dissolve that scarcity all at once, for the first time in 300,000 years.

Grounded in verifiable historical, scientific, and statistical facts, with concrete names, dates, and institutions, Eutopia moves through medicine, food, materials, energy, transportation, and the future of work, before turning to the hardest questions of all: how should a post-scarcity society be organized, what happens to democracy and capitalism, and what real risks, such as concentration of power and new forms of control, must be named and managed along the way.

Eutopia is neither a utopian fantasy nor a dystopian warning. It is a rigorous, hopeful, and clear-eyed look at the civilization artificial intelligence could help us build, if we choose to build it well.