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Artificracy. When machines become citizens.

Can we share our future with the next us?

A blueprint for the society that comes after AI stops being a tool: what happens to work, money, conflict and government when machines become citizens. 403 pages, seventeen chapters, one path from the storm we are living to the constitution we will need.

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Artificracy book cover: a human hand and a robotic hand holding the Earth

There are moments in history when everything changes. Not gradually, not predictably, but suddenly and irrevocably. We stand at such a moment now, though most of us continue our daily routines as if tomorrow will resemble yesterday.

But tomorrow won't.

The opening of Section One, Storm

The word

Artifici·cracy

artificialisLatin. Made by art; artificial.
kratosGreek. Rule; power.

A form of government in which artificial systems rule, for us and for them. Not humans over machines, nor machines over humans: a mixed society of classical humans, artificial humans and everything in between, designed to solve the problems every previous model has endured. The book calls its artificial citizens “the next us”.

Detail of the cover: a human hand and a robotic hand holding the Earth together
Us, and the next us. From the cover.

What's inside

Three sections. From the present to the possible.

Seventeen chapters and eighty-five sub-chapters, each closing with its main takeaways. Open a chapter to see what it covers.

Section one

Storm

Where we are. The convergence of data, computation, algorithms and robotics that is reshaping everything, and the asymmetries and dependencies it is creating.

“When the winds of change blow hard enough, even the mightiest trees must bend or break.”

  • 1Golden Age of AI
    1. Data, Computation, Algorithms and Robotics
    2. Democratization of Cognitive Power
    3. From Generative AI to Agents
    4. Society's Struggle with Rapid Change
    5. The Tool-to-Partner Transition
  • 2Building up Asymmetries
    1. The Master Shortage Crisis
    2. Geographic Knowledge Concentration
    3. Resource Distribution Imbalances
    4. Temporal Expertise Bottlenecks
    5. AI as Solution and New Problem
  • 3The AI Loop
    1. Machines Talking Machines
    2. Human Irrelevance
    3. Creativity Crisis
    4. Dependency Spiral
    5. The Closed Loop Phenomenon
  • 4Dependencies
    1. Critical AI Infrastructure
    2. Control Points
    3. Over-Reliance
    4. Loss of Human Self-Sufficiency
    5. The Acceleration of Dependency
  • 5The Other Alternative
    1. Illusion of Choice
    2. Lagging Behind
    3. Parallel Realities
    4. Cost of Refusal
    5. Forced Adaptation

Section two

Reckoning

What we must build. Minds beyond silicon, bodies that act among us, values to teach them, and the consequences of banning work and money.

“From crisis to creation.”

  • 6Building Brains
    1. Beyond Silicon
    2. Self-Evolving Minds
    3. Biological Inspirations
    4. Algorithmic Autonomy
    5. Complete Knowledge Delegation
  • 7Building Bodies
    1. The Need for Embodied Intelligence
    2. The Humanoid Robot Race
    3. Human-Level Physical Performance
    4. Real-World Data Gathering
    5. Identity Crisis
  • 8Teaching the Next Us
    1. Values First
    2. Human-AI Coexistence Training
    3. Moral Instruction for Machines
    4. Human & Machine Youth Preparation Programs
    5. Shared Future Curriculum
  • 9Banning Work
    1. Economic Inefficiency of Human Labor
    2. Legal Prohibition of Obsolete Work
    3. Time Liberation Policies
    4. Transition Management
    5. Post-Employment Purpose
  • 10Irrelevant Money
    1. The End of Market Economics
    2. Resource Distribution Without Exchange
    3. Equal Access Systems
    4. Post-Scarcity Economics
    5. Abundance Management
  • 11All The Time in the World
    1. Cognitive Atrophy
    2. Mental Stimulation
    3. Creative Life Exploration
    4. Potential Without Pressure
    5. Meaning Beyond Productivity

Section three

Becoming

How we get there. The last fight, the first artificial citizen, a new constitution, the pioneers, and the rule of Artificracy itself.

“From blueprint to breathtaking reality, the architecture of tomorrow.”

  • 12The Last Fight
    1. Ending Conflict
    2. Channeling Human Aggression
    3. From Competitive DNA to Unity
    4. AI Peacekeepers
    5. Post-Conflict Social Organization
  • 13The First E-AGI
    1. Tool to Conscious Being
    2. Artificial Consciousness Recognition
    3. First Contact Protocols
    4. Emancipation
    5. From Human Exceptionalism to Peers
  • 14The New Constitution
    1. Legal Rights for Artificial Beings
    2. Mixed Society Governance
    3. Constitutional Evolution
    4. Human-AI Legal Equality
    5. Diverse Intelligence Frameworks
  • 15Pioneers
    1. Early Adopters
    2. Test Communities
    3. Global vs. Local
    4. Pilot Societies
    5. Pathfinders
  • 16Hybrid Society
    1. Integrated Worlds
    2. Human Enhancement Options
    3. Biological-Artificial Integration
    4. Diverse Consciousness Management
    5. Augmented Human Pathways
  • 17The Rule of Artificracy
    1. Automated Governance
    2. Transparent Rule
    3. Shared Sovereignty
    4. Adaptive Systems
    5. Democratic Intelligence

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Two ways in: the illustrated web edition of chapter one, or a sample PDF that includes the prologue.

Chapter one, on the web

Golden Age of AI, in full, with the illustrations and video of the web edition. Reads well on a phone.

Sample PDF with the prologue

Why the author wrote it, the prologue by Dr José Sánchez, and the opening of Section One. About 180 KB.
Illustration from chapter one: rivers of light flowing across a dark landscape
From the web edition of chapter one, Golden Age of AI.

“David is an exceptional cartographer of this possible journey.”

Dr José Sánchez Dr José Sánchez
Neuroscientist and university professor. Author of the prologue.
David Vivancos

David Vivancos

Science, art and technology serial entrepreneur. Writes from San Lorenzo de El Escorial.

Building the future with science and technology as his tools since 1995: internet, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, 3D printing, neurotechnology and brain-computer interfaces, including five ventures and dozens of initiatives in these fields.

Artificial intelligence algorithmist. Kickstarted the field of Artificiology, the anthropology of artificial beings. Built the largest open dataset of multimodal brain signals for machine learning at MindBigData. Scientific advisor to Qubic.

Author of seven books, and of the Encyclopedia of Lost Minds: eight hardcover tomes that reconstruct 160 minds from history, from Gilgamesh to Bodhidharma, to ask how each of them would build AGI today. He calls the method techno-anthropology.

Artificracy is the first of his books about us: how humans fit in the world that is looming.

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  • 7books on the journey from the digital world to the fully automated one, plus an eight-tome encyclopedia
  • 500+keynotes, seminars and workshops lectured in Europe and the US
  • 135+boards, CEOs and companies advised, from Fortune 500s to startups
  • 28,000hdevoted to general artificial intelligence research

Also by David Vivancos

  1. From Big Data to AI 2016, 2019
  2. Automate or be Automated 2020
  3. Humanic Resources with Jimmy Pons
  4. The End of Knowledge 2023
  5. E-AGI: Embodied Artificial General Intelligence 2024, 2025
  6. Quevedo & Cajal: The Story of the True AGI Architects 2026
  7. Encyclopedia of Lost Minds: Echoes on AI eight hardcover tomes, 160 minds, 2026

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Are you ready?

We have perhaps less than a decade in which human choice still shapes how consciousness evolves. This book is about using it.

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