Beschreibung
The trajectory of AI is fundamentally restructuring our world, moving at a speed that feels less like innovation and more like an insurgency being thrust upon us, disrupting established order. This book explores the extraordinary acceleration of AI and its profound, unavoidable impact on every facet of our lives. Generative AI, multi-modal reasoning, and autonomous agents are no longer theoreticalthey have already resulted in significant, real-world disruption. The AI Insurgency repositions AI not merely as an advanced technological force, but as the central nervous system of emerging economic, political, and social orders. By chronicling the powerful convergence of AI, blockchain, and decentralized governance, the book highlights how traditional power structures, labor markets, and human-AI relationships are all being fundamentally redefined. It provides essential insight into the emerging ecosystems of intelligent agents and the rapid development of post-human intelligence futures. The text also delves into the intensifying geopolitical race for AI supremacy, the complex regulatory challenges, and the sweeping economic disruptions the technology is generating. These converging forces raise urgent ethical questions with an increasingly uncertain outcome. The AI Insurgency offers a clear, urgent, and insightful understanding of AIs future trajectory and how it promises to further transform governments, societies, and individual lives. It provides practical guidance for navigating the far-reaching implications of this evolving technological landscape.
Autorenporträt
Daniel Wagner is the CEO of Country Risk Solutions, Managing Director of Multilateral Accountability Associates, and has more than three decades of experience assessing and managing cross-border risk. He is an authority on political risk insurance and analysis and has worked for some of the worlds most respected and best-known companies, including AIG, GE, the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the World Bank Group. Until the end of 2023 he was Adaptation Finance Lead and Technical Advisor on Private Capital Mobilization for COP28 in Abu Dhabi. Prior to that he was Senior Investment Officer for Guarantees and Syndications at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in Beijing and Abu Dhabi. Daniel has published 12 books - The New Multilateralism, Tales from Inside, Decision-Making in the Polycrisis Era, The Chinese Epiphany, The Chinese Vortex, The America-China Divide, China Vision, AI Supremacy, Virtual Terror, Global Risk Agility and Decision-Making, Managing Country Risk, and Political Risk Insurance Guide - as well as more than 700 articles on current affairs and risk management. He is a regular contributor to such publications as the South China Morning Post, Sunday Guardian, Diplomatic Courier and Fair Observer, among many others. For a full listing of his publications and media interviews please see www.countryrisksolutions.com. Daniel holds masters degrees in international relations from the University of Chicago and in international management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management. He also has a bachelors degree in political science from Richmond University in London.
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