Die kognokrate Gesellschaft.
Steven Broschart — How AI is transforming us.
Artificial intelligence is changing the world — but what does that really mean?
Job loss, automation, new technologies: nearly every day we hear about AI and its effects. Yet few realise that this is about far more than the loss of individual professions. What happens to a society that hands over thinking itself to machines?
Die kognokrate Gesellschaft shows how value creation and interpretive authority within our society are shifting — away from humans, towards machines. A wake-up call for everyone who wants to understand what this change does to our psyche, economy and culture. And an invitation not only to observe this upheaval but to actively help shape it — while we are still able to think about it ourselves.
A book for people who not only want to know what is coming — but who we still want to be in it.
"What remains of a human being who no longer thinks — but is thought for? And how can they regain social agency — when that very agency requires their own thinking?"
Four parts — from the pre-cognocratic phase to thought monopolies.
From the rise of AI through the gradual displacement of humans from work, economy and thinking, to a concrete new social model and the question of who will control Europe's thinking in the future.
The pre-cognocratic phase
From the rise of AI through the algorithmic interregnum to AI as assistant — where we stand today.
The cognocracy
Displacement from the labour market, economic upheaval, attack on the human operating system (dopamine, cortisol, serotonin), psychosocial disruption, robotics as the second wave.
A new social model
The BEING model: basic income, European Contribution Score (ECS), AI tax, education in the age of AI availability. Which professions emerge, which disappear.
Dangerous thought monopolies
Critical location factors (electricity, education, data, capital, computing power), the AI gap in five phases, Europe's silent vulnerability to coercion — and the lesson from North and South Korea.
Contents overview.
Excerpt from the table of contents (status: pre-print May 2025).
Full table of contents available as PDF download.