<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a name="_Hlk134531438"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Dear AI enthusiast or AI specialist,</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">this 4-volume book addresses the general public that wants to be
informed about and form her/his own opinion on AI. It provides a simplified yet
scientifically accurate description of all AI aspects: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">technology (Part A), relation to human intelligence (Part B), social
aspects (Part C) and AI impact on Environment (Part D). No special
knowledge is needed to read it. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">The first edition (October 2022) of this 4-volume book was very
prophetic on various AI topics (e.g., on the development of Deep Arts, or the
failure of Metaverse). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Since then, its Part A has been updated with material on Large Language
Models (LLMs), Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and Generative AI to
clarify issues that sprang out of ChatGPT success, primarily on AI technophobia
and on the long-term AI prospects. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light""> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">AI Science and Engineering </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">is un upcoming scientific discipline that can fuse AI,
brain and mind studies and social engineering in a new scientific discipline.
It has huge impact on both our society and environment. The
new book <b>“Artificial Intelligence Science and Society”</b> consists of four
volumes (parts) debating all technical and social grand challenges of AI
Science and Engineering in an understandable and scientifically accurate
manner:</span></p>
<ol style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm" start="1" type="1">
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"">“Artificial Intelligence Science and Society Part
A: Introduction to AI Science and Information Technology“</span></li>
</ol>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156460?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860" style="color:blue"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"">https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156460?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light""></span></p>
<ol style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm" start="2" type="1">
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"">“Artificial Intelligence Science and Society Part
B: AI Science, Mind and Humans“ </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156479?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860" style="color:blue"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"">https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156479?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light""></span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"">“Artificial Intelligence Science and Society Part
C: AI Science and Society“ </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156487?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860" style="color:blue"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"">https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156487?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light""></span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"">“Artificial Intelligence Science and Society Part
D: AI Science and the Environment“</span></li>
</ol>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156495?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860" style="color:blue"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"">https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156495?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">They are self-sufficient and require no mathematical/scientific
background. The four book volumes debate and try to forecast the future of AI
Science and Engineering, as well as the upcoming Mind and Social Science and
Engineering. They are published in Amazon/Kindle.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Here is just an indicative list of few of the debated topics and grand
AI challenges:</span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Will Artificial General Intelligence replace
human intelligence? (Part A)</span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Are the Large Language Models the way forward to
reconcile Machine learning and Symbolic AI? (Part A)</span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Is AI Science and Technology a scientific
discipline in its own right? (Part A)</span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"">How can we quantify knowledge? (Part A)</span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Can Virtual Reality truly empower meta-societies
or is it just a hype? (Part A) </span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Can AI-powered human-centred computing surpass
human intelligence? (Part A)</span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Can we create self-conscious machines? (Part B)</span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Can Mind and Social Engineering manipulate human
behaviour and social functions? (Part B)</span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"">How do social media facilitate medical
disinformation? (Part B)</span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"">What are the envisaged effects of AI and IT on
our personal relations and sexual life? (Part B)</span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"">How can we not only protect but also monetize our
personal data? (Part C)</span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Can AI help devising new political systems? (Part
C)</span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"">How are irrationalism, anti-elitism, and social
media disinformation related? (Part C)</span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Can new technologies ignite social revolutions?
(Part C)</span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Is life and intelligence due to matter
complexity? (Part D)</span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Can we patch parts of our brain? (Part D)</span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Is climate controllable through </span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Geoengineering</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"">? (Part D)</span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Can humanity progress without resorting to
energy-intensive technologies? (Part D)</span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Part A Table of contents (297 pages)</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">: Data</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Signals</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Systems</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Mathematics</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Data Acquisition,
Processing and Analysis</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Data Storage and Search</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Computer Vision</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Data Visualization</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Computer Graphics and Animation</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Virtual and Augmented
Reality</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Audio, Speech, and Text Analysis</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Machine Learning. Pattern
Recognition</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Deep Learning</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Information</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Metadata, Semantics, Concepts</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Symbolic Artificial
Intelligence</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Knowledge</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Anthropocentric Computing</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Robotics</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Autonomy</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Networks and the Internet</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">The World Wide Web</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Social Media</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Network analytics</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Swarm Intelligence</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Software</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Computing</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Communications</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Security</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Blockchain</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Large Language Models and Artificial General Intelligence.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Part B Table of contents (276 pages)</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">: Nervous System</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Brain</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Brain imaging</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Brain connectome</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Neural and Brain Models</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Sensing</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Human Senses</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Perception</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Interoception</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Physical Intelligen</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Action and Motion</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Mind</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Cognition</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Memory</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Intelligence</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Affect</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Affective Computing</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Language and Speech</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Written Language and
Communication</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Consciousness and Self-awareness</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Self-aware Machines</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Computational Brain
Modeling Tools</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Brain-Inspired Computing</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Medicine</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Medical Genomics</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Medical Data</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Medical Disinformation</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Pharmaceutics and Drug Discovery</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Anti-vaccination Movement</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Ambient Assisted Living</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Minors</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Sex</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Pornography</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Social Flexibility and
Personal Relations</span><span style="font-size:10pt">.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Part C Table of contents (335 pages)</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">: Identity</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Intellectual Property</span><span style="font-size:10pt">,</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Privacy protection</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Fake data</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">News and Agora</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Media Production and
Streaming</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Music and Dance</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Digital Humanities</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Ex machina Arts</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Computational Aesthetics</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Research</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Research Dissemination</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Morphosis</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Educational Methods</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Education and Society</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Truth</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Justice</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Digital Crime</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Digital Markets</span><span style="font-size:10pt">,</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Online Marketing</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Finance and Economics</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">AI and IT Economics</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Cryptocurrencies</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Non-Fungible Tokens</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Digital Governance</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Industry</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Labor</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Meta-agoras and Meta-societies</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Politics and Democracy</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Computational Politics</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Societal and Political
Networks</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Social Activism</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Irrationalism and Anti-elitism</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Virtual Communities and
Disinformation</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Political Activism</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Computational History</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Computational Social Science</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Ethics and Philosophy</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Religion</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Religious Practice and AI</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Religious Art</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">War and Peace</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Advanced Warfare</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Revolution</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Geopolitics</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Trustworthy AI</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Information and Knowledge
society</span><span style="font-size:10pt">.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Part D Table of contents (177 pages)</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">: Space and Time</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Life</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Bioinformatics</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Systems Biology</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Animal and Plant
Intelligence</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Bio-inspired Machines</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Epidemiology</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Microcosm</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Ecology</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Agriculture</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Sustainable and Precision Agriculture</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Organic Farming</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Earth Sensing</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Meteorology</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Climate Change</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Archaeology and Restoration</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Smart Cities</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Land Transportation</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Shipping</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Aviation</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Renewable Energy</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Green Information
Technologies</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Sustainable Earth Resources</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Geology and Seismology</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Space and Astronomy</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Law of Complexity</span><span style="font-size:10pt">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light""> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">About the author</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">: This book is a result of a two-year effort by <b>Dr. Ioannis. Pitas
(IEEE fellow, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, EURASIP fellow)</b> and was
influenced by his being principal investigator of 75+ R&D projects on
Machine Learning, Digital Media, Computer Vision, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">and chairing the International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">As a well-known AI futurist, in the past 3 years he has published
numerous articles and delivered many lectures and interviews in the
international media on the future of AI. Quite a few of them were proven to be
prophetic. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Dr. I. Pitas is initiator and first chair of the International AI
Doctoral Academy (</span><a href="https://www.i-aida.org/" style="color:blue"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">AIDA</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">). He was Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Information
Analysis (</span><a href="https://aiia.csd.auth.gr/" style="color:blue"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">AIIA</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">) lab at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">He was chair and initiator of the IEEE Autonomous Systems Initiative
(ASI). He served as a Visiting Professor at several Universities worldwide. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">His current interests are in the areas of artificial intelligence,
machine learning, computer vision, autonomous systems, intelligent digital
media, and human-centred computing. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">He has (co-)authored 15 books, 45 book chapters and over 950 papers in
the above topics. He has 40000+ citations to his work and h-index 93+. He is
ranked 319 worldwide and first in Greece in the field of Computer Science
(2022).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Enjoy!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">Prof. Ioannis. Pitas</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">IEEE fellow, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, EURASIP fellow, Chair of the
International AI Doctoral Academy (</span><a href="https://www.i-aida.org/" style="color:blue"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">AIDA</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:pitas@csd.auth.gr" style="color:blue"><span lang="EN-GB">pitas@csd.auth.gr</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p></div>