Raising AI: An Essential Guide to Parenting Our Future (Paperback or Softback)

From the pioneer of translation AIs like Google, Yahoo, and Bing translate, an accessible and authoritative guide to AI—as well as a framework of empowerment for a future with our artificial children.

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In his new book, AI trailblazer De Kai explores how widespread use of AI is bringing about an automation of thought, impacting our unconscious. He brings decades of his paradigm-shifting work at the nexus of AI and society to help audiences make sense of our interactions with AI at both personal and societal levels—ethically and responsibly.

What should each of us do as the responsible adults in the room? In Hollywood movies, AI destroys humanity. But under the influence of AI upon our minds, humanity may destroy humanity before AI even gets a chance.

Plainspoken and visionary, Raising AI guides us through our shifting attitudes and ideas in a world of AI cohabitants. Society can not only survive the AI revolution but flourish in a more humane, compassionate, and understanding world where we all play our part—alongside our artificial children.

De Kai is a pioneer of AI. For his contributions, he was honored by the Association for Computational Linguistics as one of its Founding Fellows. He holds joint appointments at HKUST’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Berkeley’s International Computer Science Institute. De Kai is Independent Director of the AI ethics think tank The Future Society and was one of eight inaugural members of Google’s AI Ethics council.