Nov 19, 2024 - Politics & Policy
First Look: Kissinger's final warning in new book on AI
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Henry Kissinger joined forces with technologists Craig Mundie and Eric Schmidt to write a book on the subject that dominated his thinking in his final years: humanity's risk from AI.
Driving the news: That book, "Genesis," is out Tuesday, nearly a year after the former secretary of state died at 100.
- Also out: A video, shared first with Axios AM, in which the authors discuss their central theses.
What they're saying: Kissinger warns that humanity is "trying to wield a power it cannot possibly understand."
- "Humans won't any longer be at the top of the scale in terms of intelligence, and that forces us to think differently about our relationship to everything," Mundie says.
- Schmidt says humanity could become "the dog" to AI's human.
- There are enormous upsides, the authors note, of having a "polymath in your pocket" — and, say, diagnosing your illness.
Go deeper... In photos: Major moments in Kissinger's career
