Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Niklas Lidströmer, Ph.D., M.D. (University of Copenhagen and Karolinska Institutet, Copenhagen, Denmark)
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers In
Weight: 0.450kg
ISBN: 9780443449727
ISBN 10: 0443449724
Pages: 222
Publication Date: 27 March 2026
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
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Author Information
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.
