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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 15 2025
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Agentic World Order: Navigating Humanity's Next Great Migration By Alexander T Hooper
Humanity stands at a precipice. The world is being profoundly warped by an unprecedented technological acceleration: Artificial Intelligence (AI). Agentic World Order is your essential guide to understanding this new paradigm, offering a vital map for navigating humanity's most critical transition.
As Ray Kurzweil articulated, we are entering the Singularity-an era where technological change is so rapid and profound that human life is irreversibly transformed. AI's exponential growth far outstrips our linear thinking, compressing traditional historical cycles and bringing forth both radical abundance and the specter of catastrophe. This book dissects the complexities, providing guiding principles for strategic thinking and action in an age where the very determinants of national power are being rewritten.
Drawing on deep insider insight from Alexander T Hooper, a technologist who leads AI strategy for a global hyper-scaler, this work blends history, strategy, and ethics. It's a powerful call to action, urging us to move with foresight and confidence through this era of profound uncertainty.
Inside, you will explore:
- The Accelerating Trajectory of AI and the Singularity Discover how AI represents an exponential leap towards the Superintelligence Horizon, challenging our understanding of human cognition and the pace of progress itself.
- Economic Transformation and the Future of Work: Uncover how massive AI investment and adoption are reshaping global economies, driving unprecedented productivity gains, yet also threatening mass joblessness, intensifying wealth inequality, and challenging human purpose and dignity.
- Geopolitical Implications and the AI Arms Race: Witness how AI has become a national security emergency, fueling an intense rivalry between global powers and giving rise to a new deterrence framework: Mutual Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM).
- Societal and Ethical Implications: Delve into how AI redefines human identity, blurs lines between human and machine, and raises critical ethical concerns regarding bias, trustworthiness, control, genetic engineering, and the rise of digital feudalism.
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability: Grapple with AI's immense and accelerating environmental footprint-from soaring energy and water consumption in data centres to the Jevons Paradox-and consider the potential for Earth alignment to steer AI towards planetary well-being.
- Regulatory Landscape and Societal Choices: Navigate the global push for AI governance, the tension between rapid innovation and crucial safety, and humanity's fundamental collective choice: to merge with superintelligence, resist its transformative pull, or risk being remade by systems that may operate beyond our control.
This book challenges you to think in curves, not lines and provides the understanding necessary to shape a future where AI amplifies human potential and shared abundance, rather than undermining it. The future is not pre-ordained; it is being chosen by our collective responses now. Agentic World Order is your definitive guide to making those choices wisely.
About the Author: Alexander T Hooper is an Australian author and technologist who leads Artificial Intelligence strategy for a large hyper-scaler, guiding enterprises, start-ups, and governments through digital transformation. His writing examines how progress, power, and human purpose intersect at the edge of superintelligence. He is a champion of responsible innovation, exploring how intelligence, human or artificial, can serve a flourishing world.
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