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Coexisting with AI: Work, Love, and Play in a Changing World
Author(s): Kay Firth-Butterfield (Author)
- Publisher finelybook 出版社: Wiley
- Publication Date 出版日期: January 13, 2026
- Edition 版本: 1st
- Language 语言: English
- Print length 页数: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 1394278101
- ISBN-13: 9781394278107
Book Description
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.
From the Back Cover
Praise for COEXISTING WITH AI
“With her rare depth of insight into both the human spirit and the living planet―and her clear-eyed understanding of the responsibilities we bear with AI―Kay is a phenomenal guide. This book doesn’t just inform; it opens a space for each of us to wrestle with the profound question of how intelligence, both human and artificial, will shape every stage of our lives. It is an invitation: to join the conversation, to co-author the future we hand to our families, to our societies, and to the Earth itself.”
―AZA RASKIN, Architect and principal interviewee of the award-winning film The Social Dilemma; Co-Founder of the Earth Species Project and Center for Humane Technology; and Inventor of the Infinite Scroll
“A brilliant and timely intervention that rightly focuses on the vast and already unfolding societal challenges of AI. Every serious leader should read and apply the insights gathered here, if they want to remain a leader in a future shaped by a new type of intelligence.”
―DEX HUNTER-TORRICKE, Policy Fellow at Fathom.AI and former advisor to Eric Schmidt, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk
“It’s of the utmost importance that everyone understands how AI is used, and will be used, in their lives. This book will help them do so and, importantly, enable them to join the necessary debate about how AI impacts our future.”
―BLAKE PIERSON, Co-Founder of Fathom.AI, former GM at Opendoor, and Co-Founder/CEO at Lovely (now Rentpath)
“Every parent, educator and policymaker should grasp the profound influence AI already has on children, and how it will shape their future. This insightful book, with clarity and depth, reveals the invisible yet powerful ways AI is reshaping childhood. This is a must-read for anyone who cares about a child’s well-being.”
―CECILE APTEL, Deputy Director, UNICEF; Former Chief of Rule of Law & Democracy at the United Nations; Senior Legal Policy Advisor to UN High Commissioner on Human Rights; and Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Harvard University
“During the many public discussions of the risks and benefits of AI, there is little on Lethal Autonomous Weapons outside the military. This would indicate that the general public have been unable to understand and consider the impact of this technology. Kay Firth-Butterfield does a great job of introducing the conversations which must be held as we enter a new era of warfare.”
―JOHN D. BUTLER, CBE, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (Retired)
About the Author
KAY FIRTH-BUTTERFIELD is CEO of Good Tech Advisory and former inaugural Head of AI at the World Economic Forum. She was the world’s first Chief AI Ethics Officer in 2014. A Barrister, former Judge, and Professor, she is one of the world’s 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 narrative―this is the Human Age not the AI Age! With this book she invites you to co-author our Human future.
