What happens when artificial intelligence becomes more capable, more autonomous, and more deeply embedded in everyday life?

The AI Threat examines the risks and opportunities created by increasingly powerful artificial intelligence—from misinformation and deepfakes to cyberwarfare, mass surveillance, autonomous weapons, job disruption, manipulation, privacy, and the concentration of technological power.

The book separates documented risks, plausible future dangers, and speculative scenarios, asking what is actually known, what remains uncertain, and what safeguards could reduce the consequences of failure. It explores real-world AI incidents alongside difficult questions about autonomy, human oversight, accountability, governance, and the future of work.

Readers will discover practical frameworks for thinking about AI safety, including questions developers and institutions should ask before giving AI systems greater access or authority. The book also considers what could go right—and why the future of AI does not have to be a choice between technological progress and human safety.

Rather than predicting an inevitable AI catastrophe, The AI Threat argues for a more careful approach: better evidence, meaningful human oversight, responsible governance, resilience, transparency, and accountability.

A timely introduction to one of the defining questions of the modern technological era: How can humanity benefit from powerful AI without losing control of the systems it creates?