Paperback · August 2026 · Walnut Publication
Foundations of AI & Authentic Intelligence
Understanding Artificial Intelligence, Human Wisdom, and the Future of Intelligent Systems
A practical guide that introduces artificial intelligence through search, reasoning, intelligent agents, and ethical decision-making. Written for engineering students, educators, researchers, and practitioners, it pairs the technical foundations of the field with the principles of Authentic Intelligence — trust, transparency, accountability, and human-centred design.
“Artificial Intelligence teaches machines to compute. Authentic Intelligence asks whether that computation deserves our trust.”
Publication details
- Title
- Foundations of AI & Authentic Intelligence
- Subtitle
- Understanding Artificial Intelligence, Human Wisdom, and the Future of Intelligent Systems
- Lead author
- Sagar Gupta, IEEE Senior Member
- Publisher
- Walnut Publication (India · UK · USA)
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 978-93-6926-248-9
- First published
- August 2026
- Certificate
- WP26PID0244900 · issued 26 Aug 2026
Co-authors
- Dr. Jitendra Kumar JaiswalAssociate Professor, CSE (AI & ML), Dayananda Sagar University, Bengaluru
- Dr. Princy RandhawaAssociate Professor, CSE (AI & ML), Dayananda Sagar University, Bengaluru
- Dr. Sachchida Nand MishraAssociate Professor, CS – Data Science, Dayananda Sagar Academy of Technology and Management, Bengaluru
Inside the book
- I
Introduction and Searching Decisions
Foundations and history of AI, informed and uninformed search, heuristics, local search and optimization, constraint satisfaction, backtracking, and optimal decisions in game playing.
- II
AI Reasoning
Logic, inference, knowledge representation, ontologies, and reasoning about actions and events.
- III
Intelligent Agents
Agent architectures, perception and communication, negotiation, information extraction, and natural language processing.
- IV
Foundations of Authentic Intelligence
Trust, transparency, accountability, explainability, and value alignment as engineering requirements rather than afterthoughts.
- V
Authentic Intelligence in Emerging Intelligent Systems
Generative AI, adaptive learning systems, and the emerging human–AI creative partnership across fintech, healthcare, education, and governance.