The world is being debated in a battle between ideologies and beliefs, which have proven irrelevant to define the prevailing behavior in human history. It can be said that the advent of the printing press brought with it the democratization of information, that the industrial revolution changed the terms of trade, and the Internet was an unprecedented access to information in our age. Today, we face challenges related to the changes that society is going through, based on the premise of innovation and the adoption of new technologies. The trend is so dizzying that, according to experts’ estimates, 65% of children will have a job that does not yet exist.

The book entitled The Era of Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity, written by Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher, analyzes the reasons why technology will define the future of geopolitics, international relations of all kinds and generate new realities of interdependence and complementarity.

Kissinger is one of the prominent figures of American diplomacy, among whose best-known achievements is the vision of “Realpolitik” (realist policy) that led to the rapprochement of the USA and the People’s China, which largely determined relations in contemporary international relations. Schmidt, for his part, is an expert in global technologies who was the CEO of Google, one of the automated information search platforms on the Internet that had the ability to define behavior in modern society based on individualized algorithms of its consumers. Huttenlocher is the dean of the MIT School of Computing, one of the most prestigious academic centers in the world. The three have joined efforts to define this moment as a turning point in the history of human development, as artificial intelligence will change the relationship of political and economic information and social interaction.

Today, it is more important than ever to know what values ​​a world where technology is one of the determining factors of geopolitics. Just look at the legal and political battles surrounding Facebook, Google, YouTube, and TikTok, just to name a few of the apps that use our data. We must not forget that in this world of technology we are commodities, claim many analysts.

Even more relevant is the claim that information is the power we used two decades ago. In the competitive world we live in, those who control knowledge and innovation will prevail.

Unfortunately, what we see is that our societies are stuck in the past, buried in the ideologies of the Second World War, unable to change their educational models and adapt to the new reality of the present, let alone the future. These societies cannot innovate and search for pragmatic answers to the structural problems that we have been dragging for generations, and which condemn us to poverty and irrelevance. (OR)