Innovation and Research in the World with AGI and Meta-Nature

Abstract

AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) may emerge in the near future, demonstrating capabilities surpassing human abilities in all intellectual tasks and adapting to new situations. Meta-Nature is a concept proposed by the author, referring to a state where the artificial environment becomes a new form of nature through extreme automation, similar to how nature operates automatically for humans. Since it is necessary for the environment to continue production and distribution autonomously even in unanticipated situations, AGI serves as a prerequisite for Meta-Nature.

As the invention of tools and language suggests, innovation originally arises from human activities within nature. Similar innovations are expected to occur within Meta-Nature. This paper provides an overview of the impacts that these new concepts already have on the practice of research and proposes what we should prepare for the arrival of, or failure to reach, "meta-natural selection" — a future environment surrounding research and innovation.