International security scholar and Lessons in Disaster author Gordon M. Goldstein takes on the escalating global crisis of AI control in this urgent examination of what happens when increasingly powerful AI systems outpace human oversight—a rallying cry to prevent the outsourcing of war and power to machines.

RULED BY DRAGONS:
AI and the Global Crisis of Control
by Gordon M. Goldstein
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Gordon Goldstein, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of the contemporary classic, Lessons in Disaster, the definitive account of the lessons of America’s misguided involvement in Vietnam, has set his sights on the contemporary international security crisis caused by the lack of human control over the AI systems increasingly dominating our lives. After consulting with scores of experts in AI alignment and national security, Goldstein sounds the alarm with his new book RULED BY DRAGONS: AI and the Global Crisis of Control, an impassioned rallying cry to action before control slips from our grasp for good and nations as we know them cease to exist and we outsource war to the bots.

Gordon M. Goldstein is a scholar of international affairs who has served as an international security adviser to the United Nations secretary-general and as a Wayland Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, and The Washington Post. He is the author of Lessons in Disaster. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and lives in Brooklyn, New York.