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Beyond Intelligence: 20 Ways AI Is Rewriting What It Means to Be Human
What does it mean to be human in an age when machines can mimic emotion, compose music, make moral decisions, and even simulate intimacy?
In Beyond Intelligence: 20 Ways AI Is Rewriting What It Means to Be Human, author Mahmoud Aghiorly takes readers on a sweeping and thought-provoking journey through the twenty most profound ways artificial intelligence is reshaping human life. From emotions and creativity to identity, morality, work, justice, and even spirituality and death, this book explores how AI is not just changing what we do—but who we are.
Drawing on insights from philosophy, neuroscience, ethics, and cutting-edge technology, Aghiorly dives into critical questions:
Can AI truly understand or feel emotions?
Is human creativity still unique in the age of generative algorithms?
What happens to free will, purpose, and identity when data defines our choices?
Will empathy, connection, and meaning survive as we form bonds with machines?
Balancing deep inquiry with accessible language, Beyond Intelligence is both a guide and a reflection—a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the social, emotional, and philosophical implications of living alongside intelligent machines. Whether you’re a technologist, educator, policymaker, or simply a curious mind, this book will challenge your assumptions and inspire deeper thinking about our collective future.
In Beyond Intelligence: 20 Ways AI Is Rewriting What It Means to Be Human, author Mahmoud Aghiorly takes readers on a sweeping and thought-provoking journey through the twenty most profound ways artificial intelligence is reshaping human life. From emotions and creativity to identity, morality, work, justice, and even spirituality and death, this book explores how AI is not just changing what we do—but who we are.
Drawing on insights from philosophy, neuroscience, ethics, and cutting-edge technology, Aghiorly dives into critical questions:
Can AI truly understand or feel emotions?
Is human creativity still unique in the age of generative algorithms?
What happens to free will, purpose, and identity when data defines our choices?
Will empathy, connection, and meaning survive as we form bonds with machines?
Balancing deep inquiry with accessible language, Beyond Intelligence is both a guide and a reflection—a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the social, emotional, and philosophical implications of living alongside intelligent machines. Whether you’re a technologist, educator, policymaker, or simply a curious mind, this book will challenge your assumptions and inspire deeper thinking about our collective future.
194 pages, ebook
Published May 3, 2025
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About the author
Mahmoud Aghiorly
3 books697 followersFrom an early age shaped by voracious reading to reviewing over 650 books, Syrian-Australian author Mahmoud Aghiorly ( محمود أغيورلي ) has long felt the quiet call to write. That call found form in two powerful works that explore the evolving relationship between humanity and technology.
Inspired by a UN secretary’s dire warning about the “boiling age,” his debut novel, Rise of I-Adam, emerged as a dystopian exploration of identity, power, and the fragile fabric of human values in a hyper-technological future. Written over the course of a year marked by both challenge and revelation, the novel invites readers to reconsider culture, choice, and communal identity raising questions rather than delivering answers.
His second work, Beyond Intelligence: 20 Ways AI Is Rewriting What It Means to Be Human, expands the conversation beyond fiction into philosophical inquiry. It reflects on how AI is not only changing our tools, but reshaping our emotions, decisions, relationships, and sense of meaning across twenty essential dimensions of life.
Together, these books represent the author’s deeper pursuit: to provoke reflection in a time of rapid change, and to remind readers that in the age of machines, it is our questions not just our answers that define us.
Inspired by a UN secretary’s dire warning about the “boiling age,” his debut novel, Rise of I-Adam, emerged as a dystopian exploration of identity, power, and the fragile fabric of human values in a hyper-technological future. Written over the course of a year marked by both challenge and revelation, the novel invites readers to reconsider culture, choice, and communal identity raising questions rather than delivering answers.
His second work, Beyond Intelligence: 20 Ways AI Is Rewriting What It Means to Be Human, expands the conversation beyond fiction into philosophical inquiry. It reflects on how AI is not only changing our tools, but reshaping our emotions, decisions, relationships, and sense of meaning across twenty essential dimensions of life.
Together, these books represent the author’s deeper pursuit: to provoke reflection in a time of rapid change, and to remind readers that in the age of machines, it is our questions not just our answers that define us.
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October 1, 2025
كتاب "ما وراء الذكاء" يستعرض بعمق كيف تعيد الذكاء الاصطناعي تشكيل مفاهيمنا عن الإنسانية، من العاطفة والإبداع إلى الهوية والروحانية. بأسلوب فلسفي وعلمي، يطرح أسئلة جوهرية حول علاقتنا المتغيرة مع الآلات.
"هل يمكن للذكاء الاصطناعي أن يشعر حقًا؟ أم أننا نعيد تعريف المشاعر نفسها؟"
"هل يمكن للذكاء الاصطناعي أن يشعر حقًا؟ أم أننا نعيد تعريف المشاعر نفسها؟"
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