Your comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide on AI’s impact in business and life
Coexisting with AI: Work, Love, and Play in a Changing World is an exploration of how AI can be used at each stage of our lives. It helps readers understand the positive impact of AI and where governance is needed from both an individual and business perspective. From childhood through to aging, this book delivers a holistic understanding of this exciting new technology in language that anyone can understand regardless of technical expertise.
Written by Kay Firth-Butterfield, former inaugural Head of AI at the World Economic Forum and one of the most foremost experts in the world on the governance of AI, topics explored in this book include:
- An explanation of AI and Chatbots and their dependence on data
- How to use AI wisely in business, with your children and in your life
- How AI might be used in politics and war
- The good, bad, and ugly of AI now and into the future
- AI’s potential to solve some of humanity’s biggest problems, from human trafficking to disease
- Essential governance considerations to make AI a beneficial technological development for all
Coexisting With AI earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of all individuals, from tech executives to curious citizens, seeking expert insight on where AI can take us and how to plot the best path forward for your family and business.
Chapter 1 The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything 1
Chapter 2 The Infant 51
Chapter 3 The Schoolboy 69
Chapter 4 The Lover 85
Chapter 5 The Soldier 95
Chapter 6 The Justice 109
Chapter 7 The Pantaloon 133
Chapter 8 Old Age 153
Chapter 9 The Future of Humanity (and AI) 157
Chapter 10 Conclusion 189
Appendix: Convention on the Rights of the Child 1990 191
Notes 201
Acknowledgments 241
About the Author 243
Index 245
KAY FIRTH-BUTTERFIELD is CEO of Good Tech Advisory and former inaugural Head of AI at the World Economic Forum. She was the worlds first Chief AI Ethics Officer in 2014. A Barrister, former Judge, and Professor, she is one of the worlds foremost experts on AI governance and how to transform organizations with AI wisely and profitably. She has a slew of awards for her work including being a TIME 100 Impact winner and Forbes 50 over 50 awardee. She is passionate about changing the narrativethis is the Human Age not the AI Age! With this book she invites you to co-author our Human future.
