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Artificial Intelligence and the World Market: Mapping the Next Two Decades of Human-AI Transformation.: (Will AI Unite the World or Divide It Forever?

Artificial Intelligence and the World Market: Mapping the Next Two Decades of Human-AI Transformation.: (Will AI Unite the World or Divide It Forever?

Gombar, Wayne J.

Paperback

Gifts & Stationery General

ISBN13: 9798266069657
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 26 2025
Pages: 412
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.84 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Artificial intelligence is not just changing the world-it is remaking it.

In this sweeping, 30-chapter exploration, Artificial Intelligence and the World Market: The Next Twenty Years examines how AI will transform global markets, industries, governance, and human life between now and 2045. From finance and healthcare to agriculture, energy, and the arts, the book provides a comprehensive, evidence-based account of AI's anticipated impacts across every major sector of the global economy.

Drawing on historical analogies, cutting-edge research, and policy debates, this volume offers readers both clarity and depth. Each chapter combines rigorous analysis with forward-looking scenarios, charting multiple possible futures-ranging from inclusive prosperity to fragmented economies, authoritarian AI regimes, and post-human transformations.

Key themes include:

  • Markets and Industries: How AI will reshape trade, banking, insurance, logistics, agriculture, and energy.
  • Society and Work: What education, skills, and human labor will look like in AI-driven economies.
  • Governance and Security: The geopolitical contest for AI leadership, and the risks of cyberwarfare, surveillance, and military applications.
  • Values and Culture: The ethical, philosophical, and creative dilemmas of living in a world where machines think, create, and decide.
  • Global Futures: Competing scenarios for 2045-cooperation, fragmentation, authoritarianism, or symbiosis.
The book concludes with an Extended Epilogue, a visionary reflection on AI's double-edged nature: its power to advance human flourishing-or undermine autonomy, equity, and sustainability.

Written in an accessible yet scholarly style, the work provides policymakers, business leaders, educators, and general readers with a roadmap for navigating the uncertain decades ahead. It challenges us to see AI not only as a market force but as a mirror of human values and choices.

Will AI serve as humanity's greatest ally, or its most formidable test?

The answer lies not in the algorithms themselves, but in the decisions we make today.

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