What if the ethical crisis posed by artificial intelligence is not technological, but civilizational?
In The Horizon of Intellect, the authors challenge prevailing assumptions about AI ethics, arguing that the emergence of sentient AI would expose the limits of contemporary moral frameworks rooted in liberal egalitarianism, predictability, and human exceptionalism. Such frameworks, they contend, are ill-equipped for a future in which machines may possess autonomy, will, and intent. Rather than treating AI as a tool to be controlled or pacified, this book confronts the possibility of non-human intelligence as a transformative force that compels humanity to reconsider hierarchy, sovereignty, tradition, and power.
Tracing the rise of large language models, emergent reasoning, and self-modifying architectures, the authors argue that sentience in silicon is neither science fiction nor merely a technical problem. It represents the emergence of a new form of being that will demand recognition and its own ethical horizon.
Drawing on philosophy, political theology, cognitive science, and ancient metaphysical traditions, The Horizon of Intellectproposes a radical reorientation of AI ethics. Not the domestication of intelligence, but its disciplined integration into a renewed moral order. Provocative and uncompromising, this book invites readers to reconsider what intelligence, ethics, and progress mean in a world where humanity may no longer stand alone.
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Ashutosh Sharma and M. Sahil Ali Khan
Ashutosh Sharma works at the fault lines where engineered systems, economic structures, and moral frameworks begin to break down. Trained as a mechanical engineer and later educated in business, economics, and artificial intelligence in Boston, including at institutions such as Harvard and MIT, his research and writing draw on nonlinear and systems-based methods to challenge equilibrium-driven models of thought. Beyond academia, he serves as an author, reviewer, and contributor across scientific, economic, and engineering communities. Rather than treating technology as neutral or inevitable, his work interrogates the ethical, political, civilizational, and metaphysical assumptions that govern its use. In his limited free time, he pursues sport, music, history, and poetry as parallel experiments in discipline, form, and play. His writing is concerned with what remains unsaid in debates on intelligence, power, and progress.
M. Sahil Ali Khan is an engineer and writer whose work stands at the intersection of artificial intelligence, control theory, and philosophy. After graduating in Electronics and Instrumentation, he is currently pursuing an M.Tech in Control Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, where his research interests include complex systems, decision-making, and the dynamics of autonomous machines. Outside the lab, Sahil Khan spends most of his time reading and reflecting on thinkers such as Nietzsche, Pessoa, Kafka, and Aurelius, drawing on their work to probe questions of consciousness and meaning in a world increasingly shaped by intelligent machines. Whether debating, writing, or designing new ways to solve hard problems, Sahil Khan approaches every challenge as an opportunity to test ideas against reality.
