Red Lines Rising

di Ravinder Nath Bhalla MD (Autore)

Ravinder N Bhalla, 2026

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Artificial intelligence is the most consequential technology in human history — and the window for governing it is open but closing. In Red Lines Rising, psychiatrist and author Ravinder Nath Bhalla, MD applies a clinical lens to the defining question of our era: will AI serve what we have built together, or concentrate power beyond recovery? Dr. Bhalla identifies five red lines that must not be crossed — dignity, agency, genocide prevention, economic participation, and shared reality. These are not idealistic aspirations. They are survival requirements, each specifically threatened by AI at a scale, speed, and permanence no previous technology has matched. Without dignity, people become objects. Without agency, democracy is theater. Without shared reality, collective deliberation itself becomes impossible. Drawing on documented cases — from AI-powered surveillance in Xinjiang to algorithmic bias in hiring and healthcare, from social media's role in Myanmar to the rise of autonomous weapons — this book shows what happens when boundaries exist only on paper. Part I defines the red lines and what enforcing them would require. Part II exposes the structural forces and institutional incentives that keep them from being established despite their obvious necessity. Part III offers a practical path forward: how citizens, workers, veterans, small businesses, and international coalitions can force accountability while enforcement is still possible. The third volume in The Abundance Series, Red Lines Rising argues that governing AI from a scarcity orientation will produce exactly what scarcity always produces — extraction, concentration, and collapse. The alternative is still available. The mechanisms are still buildable. The window is still open. But it will not stay open forever.

• Autore: Ravinder Nath Bhalla MD
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 07:04:44
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Ravinder N Bhalla
• Lingua: Inglese
• EAN: 9780466590277