The Age of AI

"THE BOOK WE ALL NEED"

By: Henry A Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher

Narrated by: Eric Pollins

Artificial Intelligence is transforming human society fundamentally and profoundly. Not since the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason have we changed how we approach knowledge, politics, economics, even warfare.

Three of our most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the way it is transforming human society - and what it 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 analysing 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.

(P) 2021 Hachette Audio©2021 Henry A. Kissinger and Delphin LLC and Daniel Huttenlocher

Critic reviews

It should be read by anyone trying to make sense of geopolitics today (Financial Times)

A muscular contribution to one of the 21st century's most pressing debates (The Economist)

What it does - and does brilliantly - is illuminate the new problem we have created for ourselves (Niall Ferguson)

Absolutely masterful . . . the book we all need (Fareed Zakariya)

Generic and empty

Nothing practical or actionable in the book, very generic captain obvious stuff, AI could be a revolution but caution is required. nothing you can take and apply to your life

Just buzzwords

I had high hopes but the book feels like it was written and spoken by an AI. It goes on an on, one buzzword after another. Sensitive subjects avoided, rarely giving concrete examples.

Need an English degree to understand it

Too much waffle, uses English language that is difficult to understand. Gave up after the first chapter.