Volume 22 in Akedemia Advances in Computing.
The Future of AI
How artificial intelligence is changing everything — and which of those changes will still matter in ten years.
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- ISBN 978-93-12345-67-8
- Publisher Akedemia Publications
- Extent 256 pages, 24 figures
- Formats Paperback, hardback, ebook, audiobook
- Language English
- Published May 2026
- Series Akedemia Advances in Computing, vol. 22
- Review Three referees, double anonymous
About the book
Most books about artificial intelligence are written either for engineers or for people who want to be frightened. This one is written for the reader in between: the lecturer preparing a course, the policy analyst drafting a brief, the doctoral student who needs to know what the field actually claims before arguing with it.
Dr. Ananya Sharma works through what current systems do, what they demonstrably cannot do, and where the honest uncertainty lies. Each chapter closes with exercises and a short annotated bibliography, and the final section deals squarely with governance — who is accountable when a model is wrong, and what existing law already covers.
The result is a book you can set on a reading list without apology and finish on a long flight without a notepad.
Contents
- 1. What we mean when we say intelligence
- 2. How learning systems actually learn
- 3. Language, prediction and the appearance of understanding
- 4. Where models fail, and why the failures repeat
- 5. Work: substitution, augmentation and the middle case
- 6. Evidence, research and the scientific method under automation
- 7. Accountability: the law we already have
- 8. Ten years out: what is safe to predict
Who this book is for
- Lecturers building an introductory AI or technology-policy module
- Postgraduate students entering the field from another discipline
- Professionals who must brief non-technical decision-makers
- General readers who want the argument, not the alarm
Reader rating
“I assigned chapter four to a class of ninety and, for the first time, nobody asked me what the words meant.”
“Careful where it needs to be careful and blunt where bluntness is warranted. The governance chapter is the best short treatment I have read.”
About the author
Editorial director, computing · Bengaluru
Author of three titles with Akedemia and commissioning editor for our computing list. Her research covers machine learning evaluation and the governance of automated decisions.
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