Book Review: 'The Age of AI: And Our Human Future' - The Montclarion

From ensemble cast of authors former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and MIT's Daniel Huttenlocher comes "The Age of AI: And Our Human Future," an exploration of how artificial intelligence (AI) is already changing our world and how it may someday change the very nature of the human condition. AI will affect everything from the way we make scientific discoveries to the way warfare is conducted, the authors predict. It has already surpassed the world's greatest chess players, and it won't be long before AI algorithms are the safest drivers on the road, the sharpest medical diagnosticians or the most prolific artists and writers. But, uncontrolled, AI also poses nightmarish dangers to society: producing hyper-realistic fake speeches or videos of events that never happened, AI-driven warfare spilling over into the civilian sphere, or, most disturbingly, a future where the most significant decisions about the fate of the world are not made by humans. While I had some familiarity with the subject of AI, I was excited to develop a well-rounded understanding of it from this title.