From Google AlphaGo defeating human chess players to ChatGpt generating buzz in the tech world, every advance in AI technology has touched people's nerves. There is no doubt that AI is profoundly changing our society, economy, politics and even foreign policy, and the traditional theories of the past often fail to explain the impact of all this. In "The Age of Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity," renowned diplomat Kissinger, former Google CEO Schmidt, and Huttenlohr, dean of the Schwarzman School of Computing at MIT, sort out the past life of artificial intelligence from different perspectives and comprehensively discuss the various impacts its development may bring to individuals, businesses, governments, societies, and nations. Several leading thinkers believe that as AI becomes more and more capable, how to position the role of human beings will be a proposition we must think about in the long run in the time to come. The following is excerpted with permission from the publisher from The Age of Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity, with deletions and subheadings added by the excerptor.