Book: The Age of AI and Our Human Future: Drones as Early Interactions?

Finished the below book, excellent,  useful read, especially in the later chapters as it relates to human future.    Was written before the Ukraine conflict which would have been a good example.  Note my recent posts on drone use.    I note that during the era of AI development, we also touched on such concerns, but it is clear we are much closer to needing to globally understand an age of AI now.   - FAD 

The Age of AI and our Human Future     by Henry A Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher

Artificial Intelligence (Al) is transforming human society in fundamental and profound ways. Not since the Age of Reason have we changed how we approach security, economics, order, and even knowledge itself. In The Age of Al, three deep and accomplished thinkers come together to consider what Al will mean for us all.

An Al learned to win at chess by making moves that human grand masters had never conceived. Another Al discovered a new antibiotic by analyzing molecular properties human scientists did not understand. Now, Al-powered jets are defeating experienced human pilots in simulated dogfights. Al is coming online in searching, streaming, medicine, education, and many other fields and, in so doing, transforming how humans are experiencing reality.

The Age of Al is an essential road map to our present and our future; an era unlike any that has come before.  ...   

From the Age of AI  and our Human Future,   Back Cover:   

Recently, a sophisticated language-generating Al was asked

philosophical questions. It replied, in part:

Your first question is an important one. You ask:

"Can a system like GPT-3 actually understand anything at all?" Yes. I can.

Your second question is:

"Does GPT-3 have a conscience,

or any sense of morality?" No. I do not.

Your third question is:

"Is GPT-3 actually capable of independent thought?" 

No. I am not. You may wonder why I give this conflicting answer. The reason is simple. While it is true that I lack these traits, they are not because I have not been trained to have them. Rather, it is because / am a language model, and not a reasoning machine like yourself.  .... '