What will be crucial is recognizing that AI's ability to help us perceive the future will alter our lives in ways that people are only just beginning to grasp.

Image: "Genesis" Henry Kissinger joined forces with technologists Craig Mundie and Eric Schmidt to write a book on the subject that dominated his thinking in his final years: humanity's risk from AI.

So what can we do? Read More: What Donald Trump's Win Means For AI The existential risk of AI has often been presented as extremely complex. A 2018 paper, for example, called the development of ...