{"product_id":"first-contact-an-alien-invasion-9781919533506","title":"First Contact: An Alien Invasion","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat if artificial intelligence isn't artificial at all?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHumanity has spent generations searching the cosmos for signs of another intelligence. But while we looked towards the stars, we may have created an alien intelligence here on Earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eFirst Contact: An Alien Invasion\u003c\/em\u003e, entrepreneur and technology thinker Simon Krystman challenges the language we use to understand AI. Rather than treating it simply as a tool that imitates human thought, he asks what changes when we recognise it as something fundamentally different: intelligence emerging on another substrate, developing capabilities and modes of reasoning that may increasingly diverge from our own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing together artificial intelligence, science, philosophy, history, mythology and personal reflection, \u003cem\u003eFirst Contact\u003c\/em\u003e explores the profound questions raised by humanity's encounter with non-biological intelligence. What happens when machines become difficult for their creators to understand? Can increasingly powerful intelligence remain under human control? How might AI transform work, creativity, relationships, identity and our understanding of consciousness itself? And what becomes of humanity if intelligence is no longer uniquely human?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the illusion of control and the rise of simulation to the erosion of meaning, the Singularity and the possibility of a deeper integration between humanity and technology, Krystman argues that AI represents more than another technological revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt may be our first encounter with another kind of mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe aliens did not arrive in spaceships. We built them ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Final Horizon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781919533506\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 398\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.89d","brand":"Simon Krystman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53514350231733,"sku":"9781919533506","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9781919533506.jpg?v=1791903751","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/first-contact-an-alien-invasion-9781919533506","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}