Drawing on nearly a decade working across AI policy, governance, and ethics, Jibu Elias takes readers beyond the hype to examine how artificial intelligence is transforming labour, truth, power, and democracy itself.
Artificial intelligence is often presented as an inevitable force of progress.
But beneath the promises lies a more complicated story.
A story of workers training machines for poverty wages. Of cultures being scraped into datasets without consent. Of algorithms reinforcing old inequalities while creating new ones. Of governments struggling to regulate technologies they barely understand.
The New Divide explores what happens when one of the most powerful technologies in history collides with some of humanity’s oldest problems.
Jibu Elias is an AI governance researcher, writer, and policy advisor whose work sits at the intersection of technology, ethics, and public policy.
Over the past decade, he has contributed to national AI initiatives, advised governments and international organisations, and participated in global conversations on the future of artificial intelligence.
His work has included leadership roles within India’s AI ecosystem, contributions to international AI governance discussions, and collaborations with institutions including the Mozilla Foundation, OECD, UNESCO, the World Economic Forum, and the Stimson Center.
The New Divide is his first book.
The New Divide: Power, Control & the Cost of AI 