The 48 Laws of AI Ages: A Strategic Manual for the Century of Intelligence - Paperback

In the century of intelligence, algorithms, platforms, and data will shape the fate of nations, corporations, and individuals with a force that rivals any transformation in history. The 48 Laws of AI Ages is a strategic manual for navigating that world: not a forecast, but a field guide to how power concentrates, flows, and mutates across machines, platforms, and institutions.

Drawing on the long logic of power and projecting forward to 2100, Dr. Metkel Yebiyo sets out 48 laws across six domains:

• Control of Power: algorithms, data, and the platforms that become empires
• Human and Machine Strategy: where to compete, where to augment, and what never to automate
• Innovation and Disruption: moving first, scaling fast, and protecting what matters
• Trust, Ethics, and Reputation: bias, explainability, regulation, and the last currency of trust
• Future Prediction and Long-Term Power: semiconductors, energy, and the geopolitics of intelligence
• Survival and Adaptation: the literacies and resilience to thrive as the rules rewrite themselves

Each law pairs a clear principle with a real-world reading of where it already operates, a forward-looking insight for the decades ahead, and a practical application you can act on now. Naming these dynamics is the precondition for governing them.

Whether you lead an organization, build technology, shape policy, or simply intend to navigate the coming decades with your eyes open, these laws are a map. They do not guarantee victory. They help you avoid blindness.

The laws are written. The question is who will master them.

Dr. Metkel Yebiyo is a Senior Researcher and Technical Expert in Sustainability at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, energy systems, and innovation.