How much and what kind of artificial intelligence can humans tolerate? -- Do you know how it ward? - The history of AI -- How does AI work? - AI techniques -- How is AI realized? - AI determines our lives -- Do you still buy or do you already "influence"? - Commerce 4.0 -- Where to go with the "social industry"? - Industry 4.0 -- How is our interaction changing? - Social implications of AI -- Paradisia times or the end of the world? - The future with AI.

The reader first receives a comprehensive overview of the development and complex techniques of AI in an easy-to-understand presentation. Then, with a wink, all areas of application of AI are described in detail with the most current examples - critically evaluating, so that the reader may feel AI-firm. At the end of the book the author alerts the reader with imaginative future scenarios in an amusing way, what breathtaking perspectives are connected with AI in the sense of evolution. This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Machtwechsel der Intelligenzen by Günter Cisek, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2021. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors. The Author Prof. Dr. Günter Cisek, who advises major organizations such as the IMF and the World Bank and regularly holds guest professorships in Asia, always addresses socio-critical issues with linguistic wit, drawing on his vast cosmopolitan experience and interdisciplinary approach. The reader can always rely on the fact that he not only describes and analyzes, but also always takes a sociocritical attitude towards AI.