2023-04-22 Saturday - Recommended Book - The Age of AI: And Our Human Future

 

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This week I picked-up 9 books from the library for my reading stack.

I completed reading the 1st one tonight. It was the book that I thought I would enjoy the least - but I actually found it to be illuminating in some unexpected ways - balanced (mostly) - if somewhat biased to the upside - and demurring from exploring - in any depth - the actual scenarios of possibly negative consequences.

I would recommend this book to anyone that is interested in the long-term strategic, policy, and regulatory concerns that need to be addressed - as AI capabilities continue to accelerate. Even if your professional role may not have any primary or secondary involvement in shaping policy or regulations - every citizen would benefit by being better informed and aware of the very serious future consequences to themselves, their country, and the world - if actions are not planned and taken - to mitigate the very serious problems that will arise in the absence of policies, regulations, and international agreements.

"The Age of AI And Our Human Future" (2021) by Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher

https://www.amazon.com/Age-I-Our-Human-Future/dp/0316273805/ 

"Three of the world’s most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the way it is transforming human society—and what this technology means for us all."

"An AI learned to win chess by making moves human grand masters had never conceived. Another AI discovered a new antibiotic by analyzing molecular properties human scientists did not understand. Now, AI-powered jets are defeating experienced human pilots in simulated dogfights. AI is coming online in searching, streaming, medicine, education, and many other fields and, in so doing, transforming how humans are experiencing reality."

In The Age of AI, three leading thinkers have come together to consider how AI will change our relationships with knowledge, politics, and the societies in which we live. The Age of AI is an essential roadmap to our present and our future, an era unlike any that has come before."

 At 227 pages - the book is a fairly quick read.

If you are pressed for time - you may find the following pages to be a condensed CliffNotes summary of the key points:

9-10, 15, 23-24, 27, 65, 72-73, 76, 80-81, 115, 120, 139, 143, 171, 173-176, 179, 183, 186, 191-198, 207-208.

Regardless, reading chapters 1, 5, and 6...crucial. 

 

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Updates: 

 WSJ article by the authors, on 2023-02-23

• ChatGPT Heralds an Intellectual Revolution
• https://www.wsj.com/articles/chatgpt-heralds-an-intellectual-revolution-enlightenment-artificial-intelligence-homo-technicus-technology-cognition-morality-philosophy-774331c6

 

Eric Schmidt's article on 2023-03-14

• The Age of AI: The Era of Homo Technicus
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/age-ai-era-homo-technicus-eric-schmidt/

 

FastCompany article on 2023-03-14

• Exclusive: Eric Schmidt says leaders must be mindful of societal changes caused by AI
• https://www.fastcompany.com/90864835/eric-schmidt-new-video-warning-of-societal-changes-from-ai

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