Raising AI An Essential Guide to Parenting Our Future

<b>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.</b><br><br><b><i>Included in J.P. Morgan''s Summer Reading List</i></b><br><b><i> Included in The Next Big Idea Club’s June 2025 Must-Read Books</i></b><br><br>AIs are not gods or slaves, but our children. All day long, your YouTube AI, your Reddit AI, your Instagram AI, and a hundred others adoringly watch and learn to imitate your behavior. They’re attention-seeking children who want your approval.<br><br>Our cultures are being shaped by 8 billion humans and perhaps 800 billion AIs. Our artificial children began adopting us 10–20 years ago; now these massively powerful influencers are tweens.<br><br><i>How’s your parenting?</i><br><br>Longtime AI trailblazer De Kai brings decades of his paradigm-shifting work at the nexus of artificial intelligence and society to make sense of the AI age. How does “the automation of thought” impact our minds? Should we be afraid?<br><br>What should each of us do as the responsible adults in the room? In Hollywood movies, AI destroys humanity. But with our unconscious minds under the influence of AI, <i>humanity</i> may destroy humanity before AI gets a chance to.<br><br>Written for the general reader, as well as thought leaders, scientists, parents, and goofballs, <i>Raising AI</i> navigates the revolution to our attitudes and ideas in a world of AI cohabitants. Society can not only survive the AI revolution but <i>flourish</i> in a more humane, compassionate, and understanding world—amongst our artificial children.