2084 and the AI Revolution (2nd Edition): How Artificial Intelligence Informs Our Future

Will Technology Change What It Means to Be Human?

You don't have to be a computer scientist to have discerning conversations about artificial intelligence and technology. We all wonder where we're headed. Even now, technological innovations and machine learning have a daily impact on our lives, and many of us see good reasons to dread the future. Are we doomed to the surveillance society imagined in George Orwell's 1984?

Mathematician and philosopher John Lennox believes that there are credible responses to the daunting questions that AI poses. He shows that Christianity has some serious, sensible, evidence-based things to say about our quest for superintelligence.

This newly updated and expanded edition of 2084 will introduce you to a kaleidoscope of ideas:

Key Recent Developments:

• Technological enhancement
• Bioengineering
• Artificial intelligence

Nature of AI Systems:

• Insights from neuroscience

Impact of AI:

• Changing communication methods
• Implications for:
  • Medicine
  • Manufacturing
  • Military applications
  • Advertising
  • Automobiles
  • Education
  • The future of work

Surveillance and Thought Control:

• How data is used today

Emerging Technologies:

• The rise of virtual reality and the metaverse

Philosophical Perspectives:

• The transhumanist agenda and longtermism
• Agreements and disagreements among scientists about the future of AI

Urgent Needs:

• Regulation and control in light of the development of large language transformers like CHATGPT.

Scriptural Insights:

• The nature of human beings
• The soul
• Our moral sense
• Our future and what separates us from machines

In straightforward, accessible language, you will gain a better understanding of the current capacity of AI, its potential benefits and dangers, the facts and the fiction, as well as possible future implications.

Since the questions posed by AI, daunting as they might be, affect most of us, they demand answers. 2084 and the AI Revolution, Updated and Expanded Edition has been written to challenge and ignite the curiosity of all readers. Whatever your worldview, Lennox provides clear information and credible answers that will bring you real hope for the future of humanity.

384 pages.