{"product_id":"the-age-of-intelligence-how-ai-will-transform-life-in-the-coming-decade-9781919524511","title":"The Age of Intelligence: How AI Will Transform Life in the Coming Decade","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Gerard McNamara\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: McNamara Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: McNamara Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Privacy \u0026amp; Surveillance (see also Political Science - Privacy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf intelligence becomes essential infrastructure, who gets to own it - and on what terms does the rest of society access it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtificial intelligence is no longer experimental. It recommends, ranks, approves, denies, predicts, and optimises. It shapes what you see, what you're offered, what you're charged, and increasingly what you're allowed to do next. It sits beneath modern life the way electricity does: mostly invisible when it works, impossible to ignore when it fails.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost books about AI focus on what it can do. This one asks who controls it - and who benefits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE AGE OF INTELLIGENCE argues that AI is following the same pattern as every essential system before it: railways, electricity, telecommunications, digital platforms. A technology emerges. Society becomes dependent on it. By the time that dependence is recognised, ownership has already locked in. Regulation follows power, not the other way around.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor AI, the window remains open - but it is closing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross healthcare, education, work, finance, transport, governance, and the intelligent home, Gerard McNamara shows how AI is becoming essential infrastructure - and how ownership of that infrastructure determines who sets the rules of participation in the emerging economic order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach chapter begins with a real-world situation - a patient awaiting diagnosis, a worker whose skills are being repriced, a citizen navigating algorithmic governance - before stepping back to reveal the wider structural shift.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom generative AI reshaping creative industries to automated decision-making in banking and insurance, from AI-powered surveillance redefining privacy to machine learning systems determining who gets hired, promoted, or left behind - this book maps the technological transformation already underway across every sector of modern life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE AGE OF INTELLIGENCE examines the critical questions: How should artificial intelligence be regulated? Who bears responsibility when algorithms fail? What happens to jobs, wages, and economic security when intelligent systems can perform tasks faster and cheaper than people? And what choices remain available to governments, corporations, and citizens before the architecture of the AI-powered future becomes permanent?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a dystopian warning. Nor is it a technological celebration. It is a clear-eyed account of the transformation already underway - and a case that the decisions made in this decade will determine whether AI serves broad public interests or concentrates structural power in ways that prove extraordinarily difficult to reverse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten for the intelligent general reader. No technical background required.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McNamara Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47775379062935,"sku":"9781919524511","price":1436.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781919524511.webp?v=1777989993","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-age-of-intelligence-how-ai-will-transform-life-in-the-coming-decade-9781919524511","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}