The AI Ideal

AIdealism and the Governance of AI

Niklas Lidströmer

• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Computer Science
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443449734
• Subtopic: Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Semantics
• Index: Computer Science

The AI Ideal: Aidealism and the Governance of AI offers an actionable vision for ensuring AI strengthens democracy, ethics, and human dignity. Instead of allowing AI to concentrate power in the hands of a few, the book argues for a new global framework—one where AI serves justice, enlightenment, and human betterment. Rooted in European Enlightenment ideals, Scandinavian social models and liberalism, and Swiss direct democracy, Aidealism rejects extreme ideologies and champions pragmatic, ethical, and forward-thinking solutions. From free education and healthcare to AI-driven economic justice and climate responsibility, this book explores how AI can help build a sustainable, free, and prosperous world. Instead of a warning of the catastrophe of AI, Dr. Lidströmer offers an actionable vision for ensuring AI strengthens democracy, ethics, and human dignity. The book explicitly gives a manifesto for practical action, including a plan for how to harness and use AI for the common good so that it benefits everyone, not just the few. It elaborates on the daily conundrums of the human species; our nature, origins, goodness and cruelty, memes, hierarchies, political structures, and how to build a fairer, more just, peaceful, and benevolent society. As the risks are real and the threats are mounting, sections cover how AI could empower autocrats, disrupt economies, and undermine human agency while also highlighting how AI could also be our greatest tool for wisdom, fairness, and progress—if governed with foresight and courage. - Covers the critical issue of values in AI use, which is important given the proliferation of generative AI - Provides robust and broad education on what AI is and how it relates to history, science, philosophy, and politics, including challenges and how to mitigate tangible threats - Explains how AI, guided wisely, can make humanity nobler, wiser, better - Includes concrete prompts on precisely how to guide and build AI in an optimal, i.e., ideal way - Presents an 'AI Ideal' and frameworks for the cause of the positivistic and practical term 'AIdealism.'

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• Chapter 1 What we are and what we could be
• Chapter 2 The beauty of mathematics and the hidden code
• Chapter 3 Enlightenment continuum
• Chapter 4 Spark of hope
• Chapter 5 Idealistic principles
• Chapter 6 Aidealistic models for global adaptation
• Chapter 7 Political AI
• Chapter 8 Wealth, power, and AI
• Chapter 9 An aidealistic concentrate
• Chapter 10 The risks and how to avoid them
• Chapter 11 An artificial intelligence-powered Anti-Machiavel
• Chapter 12 Altered core of human nature
• Chapter 13 On eternal peace and the future
• Chapter 14 On becoming worth saving
• Chapter 15 The last slice – a π of principles
• Appendix. Epilogue
• Bibliography
• Index