In 2026, artificial intelligence is eliminating jobs, fragmenting shared reality, enabling mass surveillance, optimizing manipulation, and accelerating the development of autonomous weapons - each concerning on its own, catastrophic in combination, and entirely without the boundaries that every previous generation of powerful technology eventually required. The window for establishing those boundaries is open. It will close within a decade. Red Lines Rising, by psychiatrist Ravinder Nath Bhalla, is both a diagnosis of that absence and a practical guide to addressing it. Drawing on forty years of clinical practice, the history of citizen organizing, and rigorous analysis of current AI deployments, Bhalla argues that five specific boundaries - algorithmic accountability, privacy as infrastructure, autonomous weapons prohibition, economic security for displaced workers, and platform transparency - must be established before surveillance becomes comprehensive enough to prevent the organizing required to establish them. The book is structured in three parts: a diagnosis of the condition and how we arrived at it; a detailed examination of each missing boundary, why it doesn't exist, and what establishing it would require; and a practical guide to citizen organizing - specific campaigns, coalitions, tools, and tactics calibrated to the decade remaining. Written for general readers rather than specialists, Red Lines Rising is addressed to the people who feel that something is wrong and want the framework to understand what - and who, once they have it, can act while there is still time. This is the third book in the Abundance trilogy.

Book One, Abundance: Beyond Scarcity and Self-Devouring Cycles, examines the self-devouring cycles scarcity thinking creates in institutions and civilizations. Book Two, The Two Minds: Choosing Abundance over Scarcity, teaches the individual and leadership practices that make the abundance choice possible.