Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION | xiii | |
Disruptions and Battlegrounds | xv | |
Battleground 1: Economic Development and Jobs | xvi | |
Battleground 2: Global Power | xviii | |
Battleground 3: Psychological Control and Agency | xix | |
Battleground 4: Metaphysics | xxvi | |
Grid of Four Battlegrounds | xxviii | |
Battleground 5: India’s Future | xxviii | |
The Purpose of This Book | xxx |
Part One: Algorithm vs Being | |||
1. | OVERVIEW OF AI TECHNOLOGIES | 3 | |
Chapter Highlights | 3 | ||
Fundamental Advancements | 5 | ||
Machine Learning | 6 | ||
Systems of Intelligence | 8 | ||
Big Data | 13 | ||
Evolution of AI Devices | 18 | ||
Intelligence versus Consciousness | 23 | ||
Applications | 28 | ||
Healthcare | 28 | ||
Transportation | 32 | ||
Agriculture | 33 | ||
Military | 34 | ||
Financial Services | 36 | ||
Education | 38 | ||
Social Sciences | 39 | ||
Gamification and Social Engineering | 42 | ||
Games | 49 | ||
Tourism | 49 | ||
Art | 50 | ||
Debates and controversies | 51 | ||
Biases in Machine Learning | 52 | ||
Data Rights | 54 | ||
Neutrality
| 55 | ||
Use of data without breach of privacy
| 58 | ||
Cognitive Limits of AI
| 63 | ||
Unemployment and Inequality
| 65 | ||
Transfer of Agency and Power
| 66 | ||
Social and Political Disequilibrium
| 67 | ||
Complicity of Public Intellectuals
| 69 | ||
2. | THE BATTLE FOR JOBS | 70 | |
Chapter Highlights
| 70 | ||
Data Capitalism
| 71 | ||
Unemployment
| 80 | ||
Inequalities and Social Disruption
| 87 | ||
Challenging the Optimists
| 98 | ||
Pandemic as Accelerator of Trends
| 101 | ||
3.
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THE BATTLE FOR WORLD DOMINATION
| 103 | |
Chapter Highlights
| 103 | ||
Disrupting the World Order
| 105 | ||
Comparing Britain’s and China’s Industrial Revolutions
| 105 | ||
Digital Colonization
| 107 | ||
Data Exploitation
| 113 | ||
Return of the East India Company
| 116 | ||
China’s Ambitious Plan
| 119 | ||
Long-Term, Systematic, and Disciplined
| 119 | ||
Gladiator Culture
| 124 | ||
Betting the Future on AI
| 127 | ||
Core Aspects of China’s AI
| 131 | ||
Big Data
| 131 | ||
Surveillance
| 133 | ||
Genetics
| 135 | ||
China’s Quest for Domination
| 137 | ||
Ambition to Become the New Rome
| 139 | ||
Pandemic and the Pushback
| 142 | ||
US Government Responses
| 143 |
4.
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THE BATTLE FOR AGENCY
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154
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Chapter Highlights
| 154 | ||
Artificial Emotional Intelligence
| 156 | ||
Emotional Hijacking
| 161 | ||
Dumbing Down the Masses
| 161 | ||
Artificial Pleasures and Emotions
| 165 | ||
Addictive Behavior Programming
| 168 | ||
Digital Slavery
| 177 | ||
Artificial Democracy
| 181 | ||
The Power of Surveillance
| 183 | ||
The Battle for Aesthetics
| 185 | ||
Aesthetics as the Opium of the Masses
| Infinity Foundation | 185 | |
Aesthetic–Pragmatic Framework
| 191 | ||
Two Cognitive Postures
| 191 | ||
Vulnerability to Automation
| 196 | ||
The Gameboard
| 198 |
5.
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THE BATTLE FOR SELF
|
202
| |
Chapter Highlights
| 202 | ||
Materialism versus the Self
| 205 | ||
Algorithmic Biology
| 205 | ||
Hacking Nature’s Learning Systems
| 209 | ||
Algorithm versus Being
| 214 | ||
The Assault on Spiritualism
| 214 | ||
Competing Theories of Consciousness
| 221 | ||
Self-Defeating Humanism
| 225 | ||
Materialism Scores a Self-goal
| 225 | ||
Postmodernism and the Death of Truth
| 231 | ||
Pandemic Accelerating the Disequilibrium
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AI and Power
| 234 | |
The Battle for a Digital Mythology
| 236 | ||
Post-Liberalism
| 236 | ||
David Hume and the New Social Justice
| 239 | ||
The Emergence of Superrich Superhumans
| 242 | ||
Happy Morons and Depopulation
| 247 | ||
The Useless Masses
| 247 | ||
The Crash of Civilization
| 250 | ||
The Return of the Gods
| 255 | ||
Part Two: Battleground India | |||
6.
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STRESS TESTING INDIA
|
261
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Chapter Highlights
| 261 | ||
7.
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TECHNOLOGICAL DEPENDENCE
| 276 | |
Chapter Highlights
| 276 | ||
Awe of Foreign Superiority
| 277 | ||
Exporting Manpower and Importing Technology
| 278 | ||
Economics and Human Capital
| 291 | ||
Economic Fallout
| 291 | ||
Population Tsunami
| 296 | ||
Uneducated and Unemployable
| 299 | ||
8.
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DIGITAL COLONIZATION
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302
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Chapter Highlights
| 302 | ||
India is for Sale
| 303 | ||
Foreign Surveillance at Kumbh Mela
| 308 | ||
Facebook-Devata and Reliance
| 310 | ||
Google-Devata
| 320 | ||
9.
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PSYCHOLOGICAL HIJACKING
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323
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Chapter Highlights
| 323 | ||
Cognitive Disarray
| 324 | ||
Vedic Social Science
| 324 | ||
Psychological Decline
| 329 | ||
Lapse of Yoga
| 329 | ||
Lapse of Bhakti
| 331 | ||
Lapse of Kshatriyata
| 334 | ||
Lapse of Jnana
| 337 | ||
Digital Opium of the Masses
| 338 | ||
Identity Vacuum
| 338 | ||
Tamasha
| 343 | ||
Aspirations and Fantasy
| 344 | ||
10.
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HOW ROBUST IS THE RASHTRA?
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348
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Chapter Highlights
| 348 | ||
Artificial Intelligence and Breaking India Forces
| 349 | ||
The China Threat
| 353 | ||
Artificial Intelligence and Unifying India Possibilities
| 359 | ||
The Covid-19 Pandemic Impact
| 362 | ||
CONCLUSION
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APPENDIX A: FORECASTS BY ECONOMISTS
|
379
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APPENDIX B: HISTORY OF SHORTSIGHTED IMPORTS BY INDIA
|
387
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Green Revolution
| 387 | ||
White Revolution
| 388 | ||
Pink Revolution
| 389 | ||
Public Health and Wellness
| 390 | ||
Computational Linguistics
| 392 | ||
Metallurgy
| 392 | ||
APPENDIX C: TATA CHAIRMAN’S PLAYBOOK FOR INDIA
|
394
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APPENDIX D: AI ORGANIZATIONS DISCUSSING SOCIAL JUSTICE
|
400
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Europe
| 400 | ||
North America
| 402 | ||
Asia
| 403 | ||
Acknowledgments | 405 | ||
Glossary | 407 | ||
Bibliography | 413 | ||
Notes | 423 | ||
Index | 455 | ||
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