Human Development Report 2025 (Paperback)

Paperback. Artificial intelligence (AI) has broken into a dizzying gallop. While AI feats grab headlines, they privilege technology in a make-believe vacuum, obscuring what really matters: peoples choices. The choices that people have and can realize, within ever expanding freedoms, are essential to human development, whose goal is for people to live lives they value and have reason to value. A world with AI is flush with choices the exercise of which is both a matter of human development and a means to advance it. Going forward, development depends less on what AI can donot on how human-like it is perceived to beand more on mobilizing peoples imaginations to reshape economies and societies to make the most of it. Instead of trying vainly to predict what will happen, this years Human Development Report asks what choices can be made so that new development pathways for all countries dot the horizon, helping everyone have a shot at thriving in a world with AI. Amid a surge of AI marvels, the focus shifts to human choices and expanding freedoms that empower individuals to lead lives they value. Emphasizing creativity in reshaping societies and economies, the discussion reveals that development hinges on harnessing our ability to choose and innovate for a flourishing future. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. …