The AI Acceleration
How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Society, Work, and Human ConsciousnessBy Leviticus Black
Length13h 23m
About this audiobook
Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant promise. It is here — and it is accelerating.
*The AI Acceleration* maps the feedback loop now reshaping civilization: AI improves robotics, robotics gathers more data, and that data makes AI smarter — a self-reinforcing cycle that turns progress exponential. The next 20 years will see more change than the previous 20,000. This book is your guide to understanding what is coming, and what it means for all of us.
The central question of our era is no longer *if* artificial intelligence will transform society. It is whether humanity can adapt fast enough to shape that transformation — or whether we will simply be carried along by forces we built but no longer control.
**The AI Acceleration** is essential reading for anyone navigating the future of work, technology policy, or the deeper philosophical questions of what it means to be human in an age of machine intelligence.
Audiobook details
GenreTechnology, Business and Economics
Length13 hrs 23 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 16, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title Page
2Introduction: The AI Acceleration
3Chapter 1: The Planetary Brain
4Part 1: The Vignette - The Zookeeper
5Part 2: The Analysis - Power, Propaganda, and Peril
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6Chapter 2: The First AI War
7Part 1: The Cockpit
8Part 2: The 90-Second War
9Chapter 3: The Manufacturing Singularity
10Part 1: Marjorie, The Last Shift Supervisor
11Part 2: When Hardware Moves at the Speed of Software
12Chapter 4: The AI Scientist
13Part 1: The Vignette - The Breakthrough and the Betrayal
14Part 2: The Analysis - The Janus Engine
15Chapter 5: The First Ethical Protocols
16Part 1: The Treaty Maker
17Part 2: Writing Rules for a Hurricane
18Chapter 6: Failure Modes and Existential Risks
19Part 1: The Paperclip Simulation
20Part 2: A Catalogue of Dangers
21Chapter 7: The Automated Civilization
22Part 1: The Vignette - Scottie, The City Manager
23Part 2: The Analysis - The Glass Castle
24Chapter 8: The Post-Labor Shockwave
25Part 1: The First Stipend
26Part 2: The Search for Meaning in a World Without Work
27Chapter 9: The Artificial Womb and the New Childhood
28Part 1: Analeia and Colsen, The Disconnected Mother
29Part 2: The End of Biological Birth
30Chapter 10: The Permanent Record
31Part 1: The Vignette - Kace, The High-Risk Associate
32Part 2: The Analysis - The End of Forgetting
33Chapter 11: The Future of Governance
34Part 1: The Vignette - Chief Justice Kenai, The Two Cases
35Part 2: The Analysis - Can Democracy Survive AGI?
36Chapter 12: The New Resource Wars
37Part 1: The Vignette - Halo, The Zero-G Negotiation
38Part 2: The Analysis - The Geopolitics of Silicon and Stars
39Chapter 13: The Digital Bridge
40Part 1: The First Word
41Part 2: From Therapy to Telepathy
42Chapter 14: The First to Cross
43Part 1: The Man in the Mirror
44Part 2: The Soul in the Machine
45Chapter 15: The Battle for Personhood
46Part 1: Azaiah-2, The Plaintiff
47Part 2: The Digital Rights Movement
48Chapter 16: The Great Divergence
49Part 1: Karter's Choice
50Part 2: The Two Paths of Humanity
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