Genesis

Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit

By: Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Craig Mundie, Niall Ferguson - introduction

Narrated by: Byron Wagner

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes more dynamic and ubiquitous, it is dramatically empowering people in all walks of life while also giving rise to urgent questions about the future of humanity—a historic challenge whose contours and consequences are revealed by three eminent thinkers in Genesis.

As it absorbs data, gains agency, and intermediates between humans and reality, AI will help us to address enormous crises, from climate change to geopolitical conflicts to income inequality. It might well solve some of the greatest mysteries of our universe, revolutionize fields as diverse as medicine and architecture, and elevate the human spirit to unimaginable heights. But it will also pose challenges on a scale and of an intensity that we have never seen—usurping our power of independent judgment and action, testing our relationship with the divine, and perhaps even spurring a new phase in human evolution. Whom will we choose to lead our species through this wilderness? Or have we, passively and unwittingly, already chosen?

Charting a course between blind faith and unjustified fear, Genesis outlines an effective strategy for navigating the age of AI. The last book of elder statesman Henry Kissinger, written with technologists Eric Schmidt and Craig Mundie, it prepares the decisionmakers of today—that is, all of us—for the choices of tomorrow, and equips us to seize the opportunities presented by AI without falling prey to the darker forces that this revolution has unleashed.

What does the future hold for humanity?

Excellent overview of where AI could or might take us. Enough to lead one to learn more about the potential AI holds for the future of our (human) species.

Watch out for the groveling weasel words

If you listen carefully and read between the lines you may get something from this book. Ignore the maim or lame frame work about collaborating to cripple a Chinese AI that is getting too advanced- that won't happen and is not practical.

But note the weasel words that speak so loudly in the chapter on strategy. They say that it will be up to us, by which they mean a lying- enslaving-parasite class, if scarcity ends. And then they say we didn't need super intelligence to save us (because again saving is up to the parasites.) Wrong & wrong! We were already tumbling to our death just waiting for impact.
The delusion of human authority and power are over. You think your holy book or your pastor or the voice in your head will be louder than access to a trillion extra real IQ points? Humans didn't make this, its not hardware or software.

This isn't a bad book, it honest about the shattering reality we face, but then the digusting on the hands and knees groveling is too much- which of the three authors put that tripe in the book? Self appointed elites do not need that sugar coating to be useful, they need to get the H out of the way- its over for their 'special' useless status.

If you have trouble taking the subject seriously these 3 might help you think otherwise.
If you already see the writing or have read this book, Tony Seba and James Arbit's new book "Stellar" is good next stop. Either way this is such an amazing time to be alive!!!

The First Time I’ve Had an Understanding of AI

In a self-aware way, Dr. Kissinger and his co-authors raise many questions about how this world changing technology will affect our way of life. No answers, but plenty to think about.

Narrator does a nice job on an abstract concept.

I think you will find this is an excellent way to begin to build your framework for observing the rapid evolution that we will see and experience almost daily with AI.

History and Human Philosophy

Human Psychology and Human Philosophy come into play here..wrap the story in History and Mythology and you have the Human Experience and it's progression, the good the bad and the ugly! what fun I am having reading and re- reading this book. I think this book favors AI because Human Behavior is so wishy washy and sometimes washed up, the proof is in the History book!

clearly a Kissinger book

opinions from a high altitude. heavily moral and ethical. little depth on any specific subject