The year 2023 will go down in human history as the beginning of a new era, when "chatty AIs" like ChatGPT made headlines. Artificial intelligence is changing the world, faster and more profoundly than anyone imagined. Neuroscientist and bestselling author Manfred Spitzer vividly describes this in his new book. At its core, AI operates using neural networks, a field on which the author conducted groundbreaking research some 30 years ago. Here, he analyzes the use of AI in medicine, the military, climate science, the natural and human sciences, crime prevention, politics, economics, and everyday life. His alarming conclusion: AI is already permeating our lives and our society, without any regulation, let alone prior technology impact assessments. AI doesn't just produce "stupidity"; in the wrong hands, it can plunge humanity into the abyss. Contents: ChatGPT: Genie in the Bottle - The Chattering Robot - Explosives, Shoplifting, Torture, and the Apocalypse - Trust, Transparency, and Responsibility Previously: From AlphaGo Zero to MuZero - Artificial Intuition - Skin Cancer and Cell Phones - Protein Origami in Molecular Biology - New Antibiotics Against Incurable Diseases Brain Computers: The First Neuroinformatician - Neuroplasticity - Abstraction Through Depth - AI Improves Itself - Algorithms vs. Neural Networks Natural Science: Intuition - Thinking Without Thinking Computers - 'Fast and Dumb'? AI – already commonplace today: Internal security: Predictive policing – AI in Hollywood – global weather forecasts – AI on the stock market – AI at Corona border controls Humanities: Deciphering cuneiform – Large language models – Supplementing historical text fragments – AI in archaeology – AI expands hermeneutics AI in medicine: Screening AI – Diagnostics of tissue samples – Cancer prevention – Life expectancy in X-rays – Bone fracture prediction – AI in everyday clinical practice Fascination and fear: Humans are just machines too – Real and fake illusions and machine orchestras Social consequences: Prejudice, manipulation and the loss of truth – Racist AI – AI and crime – Radicalization as a business model – Less truth, privacy and democracy – ChatGPT in schools The military dimension of AI: From MuZero to co-pilot – DARPA, drone swarms and soldiers – The fundamental problem of autonomous systems in the military AI: Salvation or threat: Earthquake prediction – AI and the climate crisis – Greenhouse gas methane – Golden hydrogen – AI and the problem Nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons regulation: the principle of responsibility biography Professor Dr. Dr. Manfred Spitzer studied medicine, psychology, and philosophy in Freiburg, was a senior physician at the University Psychiatric Clinic in Heidelberg, and a visiting professor at Harvard University and the Institute for Cognitive and Decision Sciences in Oregon. His research focuses on the interface of cognitive neuroscience, learning research, and psychiatry. Since 1997, he has been Professor of Psychiatry in Ulm. Spitzer is the editor of the psychiatric section of the journal 'Nervenheilkunde' (Neurology) and heads the 'Transfer Center for Neuroscience and Learning' in Ulm, which he founded. He has authored several neuroscience bestsellers and hosts a weekly television series on the mind and brain. New product