THE RUPTURES THE TRILOGY THE ARGUMENT
AN INTELLECTUAL TRILOGY ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

THE AI TRILOGY

THREE RUPTURES. THREE REORDERS. ONE NEW WORLD.
VIKAS GUPTA

A trilogy about artificial intelligence, knowledge, work, society, power and democracy.

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THE INTELLECTUAL ARCHITECTURE

THREE RUPTURES.
THREE REORDERS.
ONE NEW WORLD.

The trilogy investigates artificial intelligence as a historical rupture — comparable in significance to the transformations that reorganized knowledge and work before it.

PRINTING
PRESS
INDUSTRIAL
AGE
DIGITAL
AGE
AI AGE
RUPTURE I
THE PRINTING PRESS

Knowledge escaped the few.

RUPTURE II
THE INDUSTRIAL / DIGITAL ORDER

Work and production were reorganized.

RUPTURE III
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Knowledge, work and power are being reorganized simultaneously.

THE TRILOGY

HISTORY → TECHNOLOGY → SOCIETY → POWER → DEMOCRACY

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BOOK ONE
THE AI ERA — THE THIRD RUPTURE
How Artificial Intelligence Is Restructuring Knowledge, Work and Power

From the printing press to the age of AI: three ruptures, three reorders, one new world.

KNOWLEDGE WORK POWER
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BOOK TWO
THE SORTED BILLION OF INDIA
AI in Conflict with a Generation

The degree was the promise. The job was the bridge. AI is breaking it.

EDUCATION EMPLOYMENT ASPIRATION
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BOOK THREE
THE UNEVEN SOCIETIES
The Unlaced and the Laced

Three ruptures. Four societies. One challenge: building democracy in the age of AI.

SOCIETY INEQUALITY DEMOCRACY
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BOOK ONEWHAT IS HAPPENING?
→
BOOK TWOWHO WILL PAY THE PRICE?
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BOOK THREEWHAT KIND OF SOCIETY WILL WE BECOME?
AI IS NOT JUST A TECHNOLOGY.
IT IS A REORGANIZATION OF POWER.
WHO KNOWS?
WHO WORKS?
WHO DECIDES?
WHO BENEFITS?
WHO GETS LEFT BEHIND?
WHO CONTROLS THE MACHINES?
WHO WRITES THE RULES?
THE REAL QUESTION IS NOT
WHETHER AI WILL CHANGE THE WORLD.
THE QUESTION IS
WHO WILL CONTROL THE WORLD THAT AI CREATES?
THE FUTURE
IS NOT INEVITABLE.
IT IS DESIGNED.

THE QUESTION IS WHO GETS TO DESIGN IT?

THE AI TRILOGY BY VIKAS GUPTA
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