The Age of Artificial Intelligence (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798885752138)

ABOUT THE BOOK:

"A brilliant book and a compelling read for everyone interested in the future of humanity."

-Amitabh Mattoo, JNU

"It expands the canvas of global affairs, imbues it with science, and offers a prism to view the centuries ahead."

-Gautam Chikermane, Observer Research Foundation

"It warns us about the dangers of unbridled AI if employed without an ethical 'mirror', and without a dharmic algorithm."

-J.C.R. Calazans Duarte, Lisbon University

"A deep and major dive into the future dominated by ideas related to AI."

-Menas Kafatos, Chapman University

The Age of Artificial Intelligence summarizes new developments in AI, its challenges and limitations in the background of evolving geopolitical equations. It also deals with the historical experience of the West, China, and India in coping with major upheavals as that will serve as template for the response to future AI-triggered disruptions.

If AI has the potential to set us free from drudgery, it can also alienate, homogenize, and enslave, but culture and memory serve as safeguard for they make human dignity and freedom central to human progress.

Subhash Kak is Regents Professor at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater and a Distinguished Academic Scholar at Chapman University. He has authored thirty books, of which the most recent ones are The Idea of India: Bharat as a Civilisation and Eternal Bharat: Truth, Meaning, and Beauty. Since 2018, he has been a member of the Indian Prime Minister's Science, Technology, and Innovation Advisory Council.