Return to the evidence.
Population, the economy, technology, data, the environment, freedom and society, and health. Which expectations held up? Which trends changed direction? Who shared in the gains?
A BOOK BY EMMANUEL CASSIMATIS
The Accelerating World:
Speed vs. Control
Ten years later. The age of AI.
As machines become more capable, will humanity become more capable—or simply more dependent?
In 2016, the question was whether humanity could steer the forces transforming its future. Ten years later, AI brings that question into classrooms, workplaces, hospitals and everyday decisions.
This book returns to the evidence, explores possible futures and asks what it would take to keep progress answerable to people.
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For someone who wonders where AI is taking us—and how we can help shape the journey.
Give them ideas to explore, evidence to question and a conversation that lasts beyond Christmas.
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INSIDE THE BOOK
From the world we observe
to the future we choose.
Understand the age of AI.
Explore the expanding capabilities of machines and the human capacities worth protecting: independent judgment, learning, responsibility and the ability to question.
Choose a direction.
Consider possible futures for human–AI coexistence and the safeguards needed to keep that partnership accountable. The objective is useful, sustainable progress at a pace we can govern.
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Part I · Population
Population: more people, a different trajectory
A rising population and a slowing growth rate: why the long view and the recent view tell different parts of the story.
Download PDF ↓Part I · Environment
The sand beneath the growth
The familiar material beneath our cities reveals why abundance does not remove the need for limits and control.
Download PDF ↓Part II · How Machines Became Intelligent
Three advances that reinforced one another
Better data, better learning methods and better computation: three advances whose effects reinforce one another.
Download PDF ↓A FIRST LOOK · FROM THE BACK COVER
Can extraordinary intelligence be matched by the wisdom to choose its direction?
AI could help discover treatments, restore ecosystems and illuminate problems beyond any individual’s reach. It could also concentrate power and erode the judgment needed to question it. How can its capabilities support human freedom rather than deepen dependence?
Through revealing examples, accessible analysis and a number of possible futures, this book explores how humans and AI might grow wiser together—and the safeguards needed to keep that partnership accountable.
Progress means choosing a pace and direction that improves lives within the limits of the planet.
Adapted from the supplied back-cover introduction; this is not a chapter excerpt.
The back cover
