Not as Stupid as Humans

Four Decades of AI, and Why I'm Not Panicking

von Kathiravelu Ganeshan

148 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

What if the greatest danger isn't the machine? What if it's us?It began with a conversation in a lift. On his way back to the office with a takeaway lunch of two idlis and a vadai, Kathiravelu Ganeshan fell into step with his Group CEO. Somewhere between the ground floor and the fourth, they touched on the fear that has gripped the world: that artificial intelligence will one day destroy humanity.That throwaway remark stayed with him. By the time he got home, he had started writing this book.Not as Stupid as Humans is a short, personal and quietly radical response to the panic now surrounding AI. Drawing on more than four decades of working with the technology - from the rule-based expert systems he built in the 1980s to the large language models of today - Ganeshan argues that we are asking the wrong question. The danger is not that AI will decide to destroy us. The danger is that we will use it to destroy each other, or that we will continue to destroy ourselves, as we have been doing, with or without AI, for as long as we have existed.He takes the warnings seriously. He lays out the case for concern fairly, including what the AI "leaders" are saying and why some of them are frightened. Then he turns the mirror around. Humans have fought wars, dropped atomic bombs, built enough nuclear weapons to end civilisation many times over, and are now making the planet uninhabitable. When we worry that a machine might destroy us, we are asking a question about ourselves - and we may not like the answer.Written with warmth, wit and the authority of lived experience, this is not a techno-optimist's manifesto. It is not a book of predictions. It is one person's account of what AI actually is, what it has done in his own life, and why the fear that dominates the headlines is pointing at the wrong thing.Along the way, Ganeshan shows AI at work: helping him deal with a lawyer, write books, and diagnose complex medical conditions - always as a second opinion, never a replacement for human judgment. He reproduces his actual conversations with AI in full, letting readers judge the answers for themselves. And he offers a set of principles for what we should actually do - not a pause on progress, but a framework for governing how these powerful tools are used.The book closes where it began, in the lift, with a sentence that sounds like resignation and turns out to be the opposite: Perhaps we should just enjoy ourselves before we are destroyed.For readers of Yuval Noah Harari, Mustafa Suleyman and anyone who suspects that the real story about AI is not the one being told.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798176539059
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published