“AI may be one of the greatest technological revolutions ever, and the biggest question is how humans will adapt. This important book offers one of the first real looks at the future now in front of us – a future of almost limitless possibility, along with very complex new challenges.”
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI
In Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit, Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Craig Mundie explore the growing influence of artificial intelligence on how societies understand knowledge and exercise power.
The authors approach AI as a development that may shift how societies define understanding and exercise authority. The book places AI within the context of major shifts in science, politics, and philosophy, showing how AI challenges traditional boundaries between human judgment and machine output. It also looks closely at how AI systems are used in both business and government.
These systems process massive volumes of data and often produce conclusions that cannot be easily explained.
When institutions depend on these outputs, opportunities for independent human interpretation begin to shrink, leading to new concerns about oversight and control.
The authors also consider how AI may affect education and scientific research.
Machine-generated reasoning challenges traditional views of logic and authority, leading to questions about how knowledge is formed and who defines it. These pressures could reshape how people learn and verify the information that leads to high-stakes decision-making.
Genesis invites readers to consider how institutions and individuals might adapt when systems once grounded in human understanding begin to shift toward automated reasoning.
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