Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit

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THE FOLLOW UP TO THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER THE AGE OF AI

Three pioneering thinkers offer a powerful guide to our future amid AI's rapid acceleration.

Artificial intelligence is advancing at an alarming rate. Our responses to them could transform the nature of truth and our relationship to reality, the exploration of knowledge, the physical evolution of humanity, the conduct of diplomacy and war, and the international system. These are the crucial issues of the coming decades.

Future Al will facilitate enormous advances in education, healthcare and basic sciences. They could discover new medicines, or new materials to produce cleaner energy. They could predict the occurrence of earthquakes and design evacuation strategies, or revolutionize the availability of education in every language. Powers we have not yet imagined are set to infuse our daily lives - and come with technical and human risks. Today's technologies function in ways that their inventors did not predict, and that pattern is likely to continue. Their future capabilities, running at inhuman speeds, will require a fundamentally new form of control.

Al seems to compress human timescales. Objects in the future are closer than they appear.

Genesis is a powerful and intelligent guide to the years of change ahead.

Reviews

PRAISE FOR THE AGE OF AI:

It should be read by anyone trying to make sense of geopolitics today

-- Financial Times
PRAISE FOR THE AGE OF AI: A muscular contribution to one of the 21st century's most pressing debates -- The Economist
PRAISE FOR THE AGE OF AI: What it does - and does brilliantly - is illuminate the new problem we have created for ourselves -- Niall Ferguson
PRAISE FOR THE AGE OF AI: Absolutely masterful . . . the book we all need -- Fareed Zakariya

Author Bio

Eric Schmidt (Author)

Eric Schmidt served as Google's CEO from 2001 to 2011. During that time he shepherded the company's growth from a Silicon Valley start-up to a global technology leader that today has over $55 billion in annual revenues and offices in more than 40 countries. Eric is now Google's executive chairman.

Henry A. Kissinger (Author)

Henry Kissinger served as the 56th Secretary of State from September 1973 until January 1977. He was a member of the Defense Policy Board and the Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., an international consulting fi rm. Dr. Kissinger received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977, and the Medal of Liberty in 1986.

Craig Mundie (Author)

Craig Mundie is President of Mundie & Associates, which counsels CEOs on strategic issues caused by rapidly evolving information technologies. At the end of 2014 Mundie retired after a twenty-two-year career at Microsoft. During his transition year he was the Senior Advisor to the CEO, before which he was Chief Research and Strategy Officer since 2007. Mundie was appointed by President Clinton and subsequently served for Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama on the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. President Obama appointed him in 2009 to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.