Sep 9, 2024 - Politics & Policy

Sneak peek: Kissinger's last book

Mike Allen

The cover of Henry Kissinger's last book, which is set to be released. — Cover: Little, Brown and Company

The last of 20 books written by the late Henry Kissinger — this one co-authored by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and former Microsoft exec Craig Mundie — will explore "what it means to be human in the age of AI."

Why it matters: "Genesis," out Nov. 19, wrestles with the massive implications of machines becoming our active collaborators, the publisher notes.

It's a sequel to Schmidt and Kissinger's prescient 2021 book, "The Age of AI."
They also made an animated video with the help of AI that included a cartoon rendering of Kissinger, who died last year at 100.

What they're saying: "We wanted readers to weigh the fact that for all the remarkable technological progress we are witnessing, we still need to make difficult decisions with partial knowledge, in ambiguous situations, and without the comfort of absolute moral certainty," Schmidt tells Axios.

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