Introduction: If we don't change course, we will lose society as we know it

Part I: AI as it is practiced today. The AI we have now

The AI we have now is not the AI we should want

The twelve biggest immediate threats of generative AI

Part II: Matters of politics and rhetoric. The moral descent of Silicon Valley

How Silicon Valley manipulates public opinion

How Silicon Valley manipulates government policy

Part III: What we should insist on. Data rights

Privacy

Transparency

Liability

AI literacy

Independent oversight

Oversight comes in layers

Incentivizing good AI

Agile governance and the need for an AI agency

International AI governance

Research into genuinely trustworthy AI

Putting it all together

Epilogue: What we can do together, a call to action.