The Age of AI

Outline

The Age of AI (2021) examines how artificial intelligence is changing the way people think, learn, work, and make decisions, and what this means for society and world affairs. Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt & Daniel Huttenlocher bring together perspectives from diplomacy, business, and computer science. They explore AI’s impact on knowledge, security, and global politics and call for careful thinking about how humans and intelligent machines should work together.

• AI is changing how people think, learn, work and make decisions, not only the tools they use.
• The authors look at AI through three lenses: diplomacy, business and computer science.
• AI affects knowledge, security and global politics, so its effects reach well beyond the technology sector.
• Thoughtful governance is essential, because the future AI creates is uncertain and the stakes for society are high.
• The book asks readers to think carefully about how humans and intelligent machines should work together.

Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt & Daniel Huttenlocher combine experience in statecraft, technology, and academia. Kissinger (1923–2023) was an American diplomat who served as Secretary of State and wrote Diplomacy and World Order. Schmidt is an American business executive who served as CEO and chairman of Google. Huttenlocher is a computer scientist and the founding dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.