APOCALOPTIMISM: The Race to Reckon with Artificial Intelligence - Softcover

Fuquay, Randall

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798172703577

Verlag: Independently published, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

What happens when the people building the future can't agree on whether it's a gift or a countdown?
A filmmaker becomes a father just as the world wakes up to what artificial intelligence can actually do, and finds himself sitting across from the researchers, executives, and critics who are deciding, in real time, whether that technology will be humanity's greatest achievement or its final mistake.
Apocaloptimism is the companion book to the acclaimed documentary that coined the term, offering a deep, meticulously sourced investigation into the argument reshaping science, policy, and daily life. Going far beyond what any ninety-minute cover, this book traces the debate back to its roots: the research papers, the boardroom fights, the public reversals, and the quiet departures that reveal what the industry's most powerful people actually believe when the cameras move on.
Inside, readers meet the alarmists, the scientists who helped build modern AI and now warn it could end us, alongside the critics who say that warning is a dangerous distraction from harms already happening today. They meet the optimists, the technologists betting that exponential progress will cure disease and end scarcity, and confront the uncomfortable question of who actually gets to feel that optimistic. They meet the builders, the founders and chief executives racing each other toward more powerful systems while publicly warning about the very race they're running, including the boardroom coup that failed in a week and the researcher who left to build a safer lab from scratch. They meet the regulators, the governments, courts, and international summits scrambling to write rules for a technology that won't stop moving long enough to be regulated. And they meet the workers, the people whose jobs are already disappearing and the people, often unseen, whose labor makes these systems possible in the first place.
Drawing on congressional testimony, court filings, research papers, and years of public statements, Apocaloptimism refuses the easy answer in either direction. It is not a book about whether artificial intelligence will save us or destroy us. It is a book about who gets to decide, and what the rest of us inherit while that argument stays open.
Clear-eyed and built for readers who want more than a soundbite, this is the definitive companion to one of the most talked-about documentaries of the year.
Scroll up and grab your copy today, before the argument this book maps moves on without you.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798172703577
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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