{"product_id":"the-intelligence-society-sergio-patrick-somerville-9798192881651","title":"The Intelligence Society: Power, Institutions, and Civilization in the Age of Artificial Intelligence","description":"\u003cp\u003eArtificial intelligence is no longer just a tool. It is becoming part of the infrastructure of society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs AI moves from answering questions to analyzing information, generating knowledge, making recommendations, and increasingly taking action, its impact reaches far beyond technology. It begins to transform companies, governments, universities, hospitals, scientific research, and the institutions through which society organizes itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Intelligence Society\u003c\/b\u003e explores this emerging transformation and asks a larger question: \u003cb\u003eWhat happens when human beings are no longer the only source of intelligence actively participating in the functioning of society?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSergio Patrick Somerville examines how artificial intelligence is creating new forms of cognitive infrastructure, augmenting institutions, redistributing economic and geopolitical power, changing the nature of work and education, and forcing us to reconsider how decisions, responsibility, and authority should be governed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book moves beyond the usual debate about what AI can do to examine what societies will build with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWill intelligence become more widely distributed or concentrated in a few companies and countries? How much decision-making should we delegate to artificial systems? What happens when AI agents begin to act on behalf of people and organizations? And in a world where cognitive capacity may become increasingly abundant, what remains distinctly human?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe central argument is both technological and deeply human: artificial intelligence can dramatically expand our capacity to understand, create, predict, and act-but greater intelligence does not necessarily produce greater wisdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTechnology expands what is possible. Society must decide what is worth doing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Intelligence Society\u003c\/b\u003e is a book about that decision-and about the civilization we are beginning to build around a new form of intelligence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sergio Patrick Somerville\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798192881651\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 172\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.37d","brand":"Sergio Patrick Somerville","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50921716580607,"sku":"9798192881651","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f81fce8f-9869-4508-9dba-30eb02280d61.jpg?v=1793820380","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-intelligence-society-sergio-patrick-somerville-9798192881651","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}