How AI will change your life

Patrick Dixon is a global AI keynote speaker, author of 19 books

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How AI Will Change Your Life - A Futurist's Guide to a Super-Smart World

Patrick Dixon's 18th book is on Artificial Intelligence. Impact of AI on every industry, government, company and individual. Published by Profile Books in September 2024.

AI will create gigantic benefits for humankind in every industry, saving time and reducing costs. AI will also save hundreds of millions of lives in better health care. At the same time AI will disrupt a billion jobs, kill many in wars, is already out of control, and one day could gain the power to wipe us all out. So what will all this mean for your own career, family, community and wider world? What steps can we take now to survive and succeed in a super-smart world? 

28 chapters cover likely future impact of AI on industries ranging from Pharma to retail, manufacturing, banking, insurance, travel, construction, software development, defence and so on.

Daily Telegraph review (14 September UK): 

"If you need to acquire instant AI mastery in time for your next board meeting, Dixon’s your man. 

Dixon gives us plenty to think about: AI’s role in surveillance; AI’s role in intellectual freedom and copyright; AI’s role in warfare; AI’s role in human obsolescence – his exhaustive list runs to over two dozen chapters.

Business types will enjoy Dixon's meticulous lists and his willingness to argue both sides against the middle."

Read on - buy my new book NOW AI Will Change Your Life".

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Quote from the book

AI will create a better world in a vast number of ways, and it will save tens of millions of lives a year through better health care alone.

But AI will also kill many others in wars and is out of control in many places. AI will grow rapidly in power, and could destroy our future, but at the same time we urgently need this technology. We just need to find ways to apply it wisely.

This book is about our wider world, about how we will learn to live with AI. It’s about how daily life will evolve for 8 billion people or more, in every region and major industry, and what it all means for us personally.

Comment by Patrick Dixon

"Researching this book has been both exciting and alarming. The potential of AI is vast to improve the world and make our daily lives better, especially in health care, but it could all go badly wrong, depending on how AI is developed and used, and on what privileges AI is allowed.

"AI will also be widely used by dictators and autocratic regimes to control populations and maintain power."

"A major risk is that AI will be allowed to self-improve, writing new code, gaining new powers, at a rate ten thousand times faster than any human beings can keep up with, taking AI into new frontiers, which could ultimately pose a threat to us all.  

"But by far the most urgent risk to every large business and to government is from next-generation cyberattacks on anoverwhelming scale, themselves created using AI tools."

How AI will change your life

Chapter Headings:

Part One: How AI Is Evolving

1 The Truth About Artificial Intelligence 

2 Super-Smart AI and a Reality Check 

Part Two: How AI Will Shape Our Future World

3 Workplace AI

4 Office Workers - impact of AI

5 Healthcare - how AI will drive better health

6 Pharma, Disease Prevention and Wellness - how AI will transform pharma

7 Education – in School and at College - AI challenges to education

8 Adult Education and ‘Truth’ - why AI will redefine "Truth"

9 Software Development - AI will help but less than many think

10 Film-making and Music - get ready for AI revolution

11 Search Engines, Social Media, Publishing and Art - massive AI impact

12 Marketing - most campaigns will be driven entirely by AI

13 Retail - AI will have huge impact on retail eg fashion

14 Travel and Leisure - multiple impacts of AI on airlines, auto industry etc

15 Relationships - relationships with AI bots, and impact of AI on human to human relationships

16 Food Industry - AI will drive greater efficiency

17 Satellites and Space Colonies - impossible without AI

18 Manufacturing, Logistics and Supply Chains - major benefits from AI

19 Construction and Cities - AI will transform construction and the built environment

20 Environment - AI will consume huge amounts of power but also enable sustainability initiatives

21 Pensions and Wealth Management - AI already controls most investment decisions

22 Corporate and Retail Banking, and Insurance - AI poses major threats but will deliver cost savings

23 Cybersecurity - greatest risk from AI right now

24 Surveillance - AI is every dictator's dream tech

25 Military and War - get ready for AI driven wars

26 Government - AI will enhance government and threaten democracy 

Part Three: How Should We Respond to AI?

27 Ten Steps for Governments 

28 Twelve Steps for Individuals 

29 Ten Steps for Companies 

30 Postscript – A Story 

* Patrick Dixon is often described as Europe’s leading Futurist. Author of 19 books, he has advised over 400 of the world’s largest corporations on a wide range of global trends. His clients include Google, Microsoft, IBM, Intel, LinkedIn and many of the world’s largest manufacturers as well as governments. Patrick is a cancer physician by first training and his first start-up company some decades years ago was an AI-simulator, using computers to talk to and diagnose patients. His website globalchange.com has had 15 million unique visitors with 9 million video views