Hoque Faisal. Transcend: Unlocking Humanity in the Age of AI

Post Hill Press, 2025. — 274 p. — ISBN: 979-8-89565-010-3.The question TRANSCEND answers is, how can we use AI to unlock humanity's full potential while protecting what is most precious about the human experience?As humanity takes its first steps into the Age of Artificial Intelligence, we are only just beginning to think through the possibilities and the dangers this technology brings. But we do not have time for leisurely speculation. AI will overturn the world we know in our lifetimes, and we must prepare ourselves to meet the unprecedented changes that will soon be upon us.This book provides readers with the road maps they need to tackle the most important questions of our generation.It offers a unique perspective that emerges at the intersection of philosophy, humanity, business, and technology, providing powerful and practical frameworks to guide readers in understanding and utilizing AI.The OPEN framework offers a guide to unlocking the potential of AI, while the CARE framework focuses on protecting against its dangers.Structured approaches are tailored to meet the specific needs of individuals, businesses, and government agencies, offering comprehensive strategies for navigating the evolving AI landscape.LLMs can take in and process vast quantities of data at extremely high speeds, and, critically, without that data being curated or “structured.” Which is to say that ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Bing Copilot, and all the others can learn from natural human language without human supervision or prior processing of the training data. If AI systems can learn from unstructured data at high speed, then we have removed two of the most important bottlenecks to machine learning: the need for humans to do the painstaking and time-consuming work of setting up and maintaining structured data sets and the time it takes to process and learn from data.Further, as foundation models, LLMs can be used to carry out a variety of different tasks, none of which were pretrained by the developers of the model. For example, a single LLM can generate posts for social media, write code, solve math problems, create images based on text inputs, and create professional presentations in PowerPoint. In just the few years since the release of the first commercially available LLMs, this broad capability has already become so “normal” that it is easy to miss just how remarkable it is.THINKING MATTERS.
How to Think about Humans.
How to Think about AI.
Humans and AI Together.
Theory to Practice.
INDIVIDUALS.
OPEN for Individuals.
CARE for Individuals.
BUSINESS.
OPEN for Business.
CARE for Business.
GOVERNMENT.
OPEN for Government.
CARE for Government.
TRANSCEND.
Humanity in the Age of AI.