The AI Ideal
AIdealism and the Governance of AI
- 1st Edition - April 1, 2026
- Latest edition
- Author: Niklas Lidströmer
- Language: English
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 concen… Read more
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.
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.’
Computer Science researchers, artificial intelligence researchers, and researchers and practitioners working in the field of IT management and public policy. The primary audience also includes data analysts, software engineers, as well as researchers and professionals across the fields of science and engineering
1. What We Are and What We Could Be
2. The Beauty of Mathematics and the Hidden Code
3. Enlightenment Continuum
4. Spark of Hope
5. Idealistic Principles
6. Aidealistic Models for Global Adaptation
7. Political AI
8. Wealth, Power, and AI
9. An Aidealitstic Concentrate
10. The Risks and How to Avoid Them
11. An AI-Powered Anti-Machiavel
12. Altered Core of Human Nature
13. On Eternal Peace and the Future
14. On Becoming Worth Saving
15. The Last Slice – a π of Principles
Epilogue
2. The Beauty of Mathematics and the Hidden Code
3. Enlightenment Continuum
4. Spark of Hope
5. Idealistic Principles
6. Aidealistic Models for Global Adaptation
7. Political AI
8. Wealth, Power, and AI
9. An Aidealitstic Concentrate
10. The Risks and How to Avoid Them
11. An AI-Powered Anti-Machiavel
12. Altered Core of Human Nature
13. On Eternal Peace and the Future
14. On Becoming Worth Saving
15. The Last Slice – a π of Principles
Epilogue
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: April 1, 2026
- Language: English
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Niklas Lidströmer
Dr Niklas Lidströmer is a physician, scientist, and thought leader at the intersection of medicine, artificial intelligence, and societal transformation. As a specialist doctor and senior researcher in AI in medicine and health informatics, he has dedicated his career to advancing healthcare, ethics, and technological innovation. He pioneered AI-powered, patient-controlled health data models over a decade before the AI-boom and the global debate on data ownership began. He edited Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Springer Nature), the largest and most comprehensive reference work on AI in healthcare and has advised leading institutions and companies on AI, medicine, and global health. He is a specialist physician, senior researcher, and advisor with extensive experience in AI-driven medical innovation and investments. Over the past two decades, Dr. Lidströmer has worked clinically in eight countries, gaining a broad global perspective on healthcare and technology.
His international experience, fluency in multiple languages, and practical engagement with AI in medicine have fostered his strong passion for the translational and educational aspects of artificial intelligence in healthcare. He pioneered GlobeDoc, an AI-powered patient co-owned medical platform, over a decade before the AI boom.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Copenhagen and Karolinska Institutet, Copenhagen, Denmark