The Time of Artificial Intelligence: A Dialogue Between a Robot and a Human

The Center for Arab Unity Studies published the book The Time of Artificial Intelligence: A Dialogue Between a Robot and a Human, by Saad Mehio.

Human civilization has entered the first Artificial Intelligence era, and very soon it will enter the second, with the development of both the DNA computer and the Quantum computer, which will be millions of times faster and more powerful. The repercussions of this development, which falls under the “fourth technological revolution,” will be enormous and will be nothing less than a complete rupture with the life that humans were accustomed to since 10,000 years, and in all fields: On the environmental level and the issue of objective philosophical and scientific truth; In the possibility that artificial intelligence will be able to develop self-awareness; In the dangers of the “alliance” of the 1 percent of capitalists who control all the keys to technology with artificial intelligence, not only to transform themselves into “gods” or “new pharaohs” or cyborgs (a mixture of machine and human), but to establish what could be the most powerful scientific dictatorship in history. And finally, in the birth of the Human Dream, at the hands of old and new “prophets” and new global movements, that consider the greatest battle now is in the race to put technology at the service of ecology, along with conscience and wisdom, and thus build a “new earth” that is environmentally clean, and a new human being reconciled with his mother, Nature, and with all other beings. This is what the child Molly expressed at the end of the book, saying: “We will keep dreaming and dreaming, and in the end the dream must become a reality,” while Nabil, the human interlocutor of the AI, looked at her with “pain and hope” and his eyes filled with tears.