Table of Contents
Acknowledgments x
Introduction 1
Personal Presence, Ethics, and Global Action 7
The Importance of Diversity for a Humanely Oriented Intelligence Revolution 12
The Plan of the Book 15
1 Buddhism: A Philosophical Repertoire 19
Buddhist Origins in Predicament Resolution 20
Buddhist Practice: The Teaching of the Three Marks 29
An Ethics of Compassionate Relational Virtuosity 37
2 Artificial Intelligence: A Brief History 43
Servants of Our Own Making: Dreams of Artificial Beings and Mechanizing Reason 43
Modeling Thought: The Research Origins of the Intelligence Revolution 45
The AI Investment Winter and Its Aftermath 48
A New Informational Infrastructure: The Internet, Personal Computer, and Smartphone 50
Artificial Agency and the Goal of Intentional Partnership 52
The Fourth Industrial Revolution: A Revolution in the Cloud 56
3 Intelligent Technology: A Revolution in the Making 61
Intelligence: A Working Definition 61
The Nonidentity of Tools and Technologies: A Critical Wedge 64
Intelligence Industries and the New Attention Economy 67
Commercial Intelligence Interests 73
Political Intelligence Interests 80
Military Intelligence Interests 88
The Theater of Competition in the New Great Game: Consciousness 93
4 Total Attention Capture and Control: A Future to Avoid 97
The Predicament of Wish-Fulfillment: The Midas Touch and Errant Al 98
Contrasting Scenarios for Futures Free from Want 101
The Future from Which Our Present Might Be Remembered 103
Smart Services and the Sociopersonal Risk of Forfeiting Intelligent Human Practices 121
The Predicament Ahead 125
5 Anticipating an Ethics of Intelligence 127
Ethical Possibilities 128
Ethical Resolution 144
6 Dimensions of Ethical Agency: Confucian Conduct, Socratic Reasoning, and Buddhist Consciousness 151
The Ideal of Confucian Personhood: Resolutely Harmonious Conduct 153
The Ideal of Socratic Personhood: Critical Resolve 158
Blending Relational Intimacy and Rational Integrity 162
Attentive Virtuosity: The Heart of Buddhist Ethical Effort 164
7 Humane Becoming: Cultivating Responsive Virtuosity 169
Two Ideals of Personal Presence 169
Nourishing Virtuosic Presence: The Six Paramitas 176
Personal Presence and Ethical Diversity in the Intelligence Revolution 187
8 Course Correction: A Middle Path Through Data Governance 191
Digital Asceticism: A Way Forward? 193
Digital Hedonism: An Impoverishing Alternative 194
A Digital Middle Path: Resistance for Redirection 197
Connectivity Strikes: Leveraging Citizen and Consumer Data Strengths 201
Data as the "Carbon" of the Attention Economy: Toward Public Good Data Governance 205
9 Course Correction: A Middle Path Through Education 217
Improvisational Readiness: The Essential Imperative of Twenty-First-Century Education 218
The First and Last Question: What Comes Next? 234
Notes 237
References 245
Index 255
