The Horizon of Artificial Intelligence
Author: Piero Formica
DOI: 10.61362/CORE0517
A CORE Academy Digital Edition
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The Horizon of Artificial Intelligence is a wide-ranging intellectual journey across human intelligence, artificial intelligence, culture, innovation, education, ethics, and the future of knowledge. Written by Piero Formica, with forewords and additional contributions by invited scholars and practitioners, and published by the International Core Academy of Sciences and Humanities as a CORE Academy Digital Edition, the book approaches AI not only as a technology, but as a moving horizon that reshapes how human beings think, learn, create, govern, and imagine the future.
Artificial intelligence is advancing with extraordinary speed. Its meanings, risks, promises, and social consequences cannot be captured once and for all. For this reason, CORE Academy publishes The Horizon of Artificial Intelligence as a living digital book: a work designed to evolve as the field itself evolves.
Updated editions are planned on a biannual basis. Readers, scholars, practitioners, and institutional partners are invited to submit chapter proposals to the author and publisher. Selected contributions, following editorial review, may be included in subsequent editions and appropriately credited. Through this publishing model, CORE Academy seeks not only to present a book, but to cultivate an ongoing intellectual forum on artificial intelligence, human intelligence, digital humanism, and the stewardship of knowledge.
“Artificial intelligence is not a settled subject, but a rapidly changing intellectual landscape. Through this living digital edition, CORE Academy seeks to advance a form of scholarly communication that can evolve with the field, invite new voices, and sustain thoughtful reflection on AI, human intelligence, digital humanism, and the future of knowledge,” said Raymond J. Wu, Managing Editor of the volume and Executive Vice Secretary-General of CORE Academy.
(The first digital edition is now available for purchase on Leanpub and Amazon. Additional distribution through selected digital book platforms, such as Google Books / Google Play Books and Kobo, is planned as platform review and publication arrangements progress.)
About the Book
The Horizon of Artificial Intelligence is an odyssey through the changing relationship between human and artificial intelligence. Moving across mythology, philosophy, education, economics, innovation, literature, digital humanism, and institutional responsibility, Piero Formica examines AI as both a technological force and a cultural condition.
The book asks how human beings should think, learn, create, and govern in an age when machines can generate language, simulate reasoning, process vast quantities of data, and reshape the institutions through which knowledge circulates. Rather than treating AI as a narrow technical subject, the volume places it within the longer history of imagination, intelligence, uncertainty, and human judgment.
The first digital edition brings together thirty-nine chapters, two forewords, a prelude, an overview, an epilogue, and an afterword, offering a broad intellectual map of AI across technology, culture, economy, education, ethics, innovation, digital humanism, and humanistic reflection. The volume includes forewords by Alan Barrell and Brian Donnellan, a chapter by Raymond J. Wu on academies, AI, and the stewardship of knowledge, a contribution by Siyue Tang on entrepreneurship at the frontier of machine intelligence, and an afterword by Martin Curley. Together, these contributions situate the book within a broader conversation on innovation, scholarship, governance, public value, and the future of human knowledge.
A Living Book
AI is developing too quickly for any single edition to be treated as final. New models, applications, risks, regulations, and social responses appear with remarkable speed. A conventional static book can record one moment in this transformation; a living digital book can return to the subject as the landscape changes.
The Horizon of Artificial Intelligence is therefore issued as a versioned digital publication. The first digital edition appears as Version 1.0, with future editions planned over time. Readers citing the work are encouraged to include the version number and year of publication.
CORE Academy welcomes chapter proposals for future editions. Proposals may address artificial intelligence in relation to human intelligence, knowledge systems, innovation, education, ethics, governance, digital humanism, sustainability, entrepreneurship, or related fields. Submissions will be considered by the author and publisher. Accepted contributions may be included in subsequent editions with appropriate attribution.
Prospective contributors are invited to submit a proposed title, an abstract of approximately 300–500 words, a short biographical note, and contact information. Proposals should indicate how the chapter would contribute to the evolving conversation on AI, human intelligence, and the future of knowledge. Submissions and inquiries may be sent to secretariat@coreacad.org.
Key Themes
Human and Artificial Intelligence
The book explores how human imagination, creativity, judgment, and moral responsibility encounter machine learning, generative systems, and algorithmic decision-making.
Digital Humanism
It argues for the continuing importance of humanistic knowledge, cultural memory, language, history, and the arts in a technological age.
Knowledge and Institutions
The volume considers how academies, universities, journals, libraries, archives, and learned societies should preserve standards of judgment, verification, provenance, and public trust when AI becomes part of the infrastructure of knowledge.
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
It examines the relationship between AI and innovation, productivity, creative destruction, economic transformation, and the purpose of entrepreneurship.
Education and Learning
The book reflects on students, teachers, children, and learning communities, asking how AI can support curiosity and creativity without weakening independent thought.
Ethics, Nature, and Public Value
It places AI within broader questions of responsibility, sustainability, human well-being, and the future of society.
Transdisciplinary Imagination
The book places AI within a larger intellectual landscape, connecting science, technology, philosophy, literature, economics, education, and public life. In doing so, it reflects CORE Academy’s commitment to scholarship that crosses disciplinary borders and addresses questions of shared human significance.
Author and Contributors
Piero Formica is Professor of Knowledge Economy and Thought Leader at the Innovation Value Institute, Maynooth University, Ireland. A scholar of innovation, entrepreneurship, knowledge creation, and the human dimensions of technological change, he has written extensively on uncertainty, creativity, entrepreneurial learning, and the knowledge economy. He is a Fellow of CORE Academy, elected to the Division of Social Sciences.
Across his work, Formica has explored how ideas emerge, how innovation communities develop, and how societies may navigate uncertainty without surrendering the creative capacities of the human mind. In The Horizon of Artificial Intelligence, these long-standing concerns are brought into dialogue with one of the most consequential transformations of the present age. The volume includes forewords by Alan Barrell and Brian Donnellan, a chapter by Raymond J. Wu, a contribution by Siyue Tang, and an afterword by Martin Curley.
About CORE Academy Digital Editions
CORE Academy Digital Editions is a publishing initiative of the International Core Academy of Sciences and Humanities. It presents scholarly, interdisciplinary, and public-facing works that advance knowledge across science, technology, the humanities, and society. Through digital publication, versioned editions, and carefully curated intellectual projects, the series seeks to support global academic communication and the responsible circulation of knowledge.
As one of the major works in this series, The Horizon of Artificial Intelligence reflects CORE Academy’s commitment to new forms of scholarly communication at a time when knowledge itself is being reshaped by digital technologies and artificial intelligence.
Publication Information
Title: The Horizon of Artificial Intelligence
Subtitle: An Odyssey of Human and Artificial Intelligence
Author: Piero Formica
Publisher: The International Core Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Series: CORE Academy Digital Editions
Edition: Version 1.0, First Digital Edition, 2026
Managing Editor: Raymond Jiarui Wu
Copyediting, Cover Design, Typesetting, and Digital Production: CORE Academy Secretariat
DOI: 10.61362/CORE0517
Publication and permissions inquiries: secretariat@coreacad.org
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