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Beyond the Hype (PB)

Author(s):  Sundeep Waslekar
Artificial Intelligence English New Releases Non- Fiction

The author's journey into AI's deeper dangers began with a 2024 conversation with Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, who confirmed that the convergence of AI and nuclear systems posed a genuinely catastrophic risk. Through high-level security dialogues among UN Security Council nations, the author observed that military commanders were increasingly relying on AI for threat detection and early warning — systems that could trigger nuclear escalation through malfunction or manipulation, not just intent.
This concern was validated in 2026 when Anthropic's Mythos model demonstrated the ability to exploit cyber vulnerabilities worldwide, alarming policymakers across major capitals and quietly prompting US-China talks on AI guardrails.
The author noticed a stark global divide: wealthy nations debated AI's existential risks, while the Global South focused almost entirely on AI's development potential — two parallel conversations rarely intersecting.
The book underlines that AI must be understood whole — not merely as an engine of economic progress or a chatbot revolution, but as a force reshaping knowledge, power, and human survival. Engaging with it responsibly demands holding both its transformative promise and its catastrophic risks simultaneously, refusing the comfort of seeing only one side.

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Paperback
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₹275.00
Published on 12/06/2026 | 158 Pages

The author's journey into AI's deeper dangers began with a 2024 conversation with Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, who confirmed that the convergence of AI and nuclear systems posed a genuinely catastrophic risk. Through high-level security dialogues among UN Security Council nations, the author observed that military commanders were increasingly relying on AI for threat detection and early warning — systems that could trigger nuclear escalation through malfunction or manipulation, not just intent.
This concern was validated in 2026 when Anthropic's Mythos model demonstrated the ability to exploit cyber vulnerabilities worldwide, alarming policymakers across major capitals and quietly prompting US-China talks on AI guardrails.
The author noticed a stark global divide: wealthy nations debated AI's existential risks, while the Global South focused almost entirely on AI's development potential — two parallel conversations rarely intersecting.
The book underlines that AI must be understood whole — not merely as an engine of economic progress or a chatbot revolution, but as a force reshaping knowledge, power, and human survival. Engaging with it responsibly demands holding both its transformative promise and its catastrophic risks simultaneously, refusing the comfort of seeing only one side.

Sundeep Waslekar

Sundeep Waslekar is a thought leader on the global future. He has worked with more than 70 countries, the United Nations, and the European Council under the auspices of the Strategic Foresight Group, an international think tank he cofounded in 2002.
He is the author of A World without War, published by HarperCollins India (2022) and published in French as Entre Guerre et Paix by CNRS Editions (2023), in Spanish as Un mundo sin guerra by Nola Editores (2025), and in Marathi as Yudhha Nakarnare Jag by Rajhans Prakashan (2025). He is the author of Eka Dishecha Shodh, a best-selling book in his native Marathi language, with 26 editions and translations in Hindi and Urdu.
He has been a practitioner of Track Two diplomacy since the 1990s. He has mediated in geopolitical conflicts in South Asia, those between Western and Islamic countries on deconstructing terror, trans-boundary water conflicts in Africa and the Middle East, and nuclear risk reduction between the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. Since the beginning of 2025, he has been involved in Track Two processes to shape global ‘extreme AI risks’ governance.
He was invited to address the United Nations Security Council session 7818 on water, peace, and security. His policy concepts have been discussed in the UN Alliance of Civilisations, the World Economic Forum at Davos, Quai d’Orsay, European Parliament, Indian Parliament, UK House of Commons and House of Lords. He has been quoted in more than 3,000 media articles from 80 countries.
Waslekar read philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) at Oxford University from 1981 to 1983. He was conferred D. Litt. (Honoris Causa) of Symbiosis International University by the President of India in 2011.

Publisher

Sakal Publications

Author

Sundeep Waslekar

Language

English

ISBN

9788169355353

Binding
  • Paperback
Pages

158

Publication Year

12/06/2026

Dimensions
5.5 x 8.5

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