Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

2026

DOI

10.24251/HICSS.2026.143

Publication Title

Proceedings of the 59th Hawaii International Conference on System Engineering

Pages

1188-1197

Conference Name

59th Hawaii International Conference on System Engineering, January 6-9, 2026, Maui Hawaii

Abstract

Despite artificial intelligence reshaping the world, its development generates uncertainties regarding future capabilities. AI simultaneously exists as an artifact of engineering design and as autonomous intelligence, creating an observer-participant feedback loop. This paper proposes that embodied AI faces a bandwidth-limited intelligence threshold T_h that it arises from B = min(C_sens,C_Act). However, Shannon capacity measures bits while intelligence operates on concepts, necessitating a dual-channel model separating physical bandwidth B_io from representational capacity B_rep. Intelligence emerges as multi-dimensional rather than scalar, with components exhibiting different bandwidth dependencies. Surpassing T_h requires either new sensing methods expanding B, enhanced representational frameworks, or reconceptualization within higher cardinality ontologies.

Rights

© 2026 The Author.

This is an open access article published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License.

ORCID

0000-0003-1078-0314 (Mohanty)

Original Publication Citation

Mohanty, J. (2026). A vs. I in AI: Is there a threshold to "engineered" intelligence? In Tung X. Bui (Eds.), Proceedings of the 59th Hawaii International Conference on System Engineering (pp. 1188-1197). Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. https://doi.org/10.24251/HICSS.2026.143

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