🥳 NEW BOOK RELEASE 🥳

AI Everywhere: How Women Are Changing the World with Artificial Intelligence.

Our technologies are moving faster than our frameworks for understanding them but there are many people forging new connections and making new ways, reconsidering what technology can be for good.

While it may seem like many of the loudest voices in the AI conversation are still arguing in binaries like utopia or dystopia, replace or augment, fear or embrace, there is a groundswell happening in the multiplicities of everyday experience that is powerful in its reach. This book comes from that power.

Spearheaded by Karen Smiley this book exists beyond the usual dichotomies, with writing from 26 women and nonbinary experts worldwide, authors coming from the middle of their real experience all over the world. The result is a book about AI that is actually about us through the ways we care about the lives we are living.

The chapters discuss how we lead, protect, connect, create, and know in a world being reshaped in real time and opening different forms of agency. It offers real stories, expert insights, and global perspectives on how artificial intelligence is shaping work, creativity, ethics, and everyday life.

Grab your copy while it is on safe for a dollar: mybook.to/aieverywhere1 and check out the amazing work of so many incredible people doing work all over the world.

Lots of gratitude to Karen Smiley  for dreaming this up and then leading the project and Blessing Okpala, PhD for creating a gorgeous homepate and site, and to Farida Khalaf for showing the way with promotions.

Thanks also to all the amazing authors including our Andrea Hiott and Dr. Hollie C. White Celeste Garcia Rebecca Mbaya Sydnor Hain (they/them) Sarah Ennett - Seeking Ikigai AI Cinema By Elettra Fiumi Karen Spinner AllAboutAI by Midhat Tilawat Brie-Anna Willey Dhani Ramadhani Cassandra Whitney Whealdon Jennifer W Shewmaker Cheyenne Dominguez | M(AI)VENS Elizabeth Eagle-Simbeye Farida Khalaf Lisa Raehsler Katrina Watson Soribel Feliz Blessing Okpala, PhD Elena | AI Product Leader Lakshmi Veeramani Iwette Rapoport

NOTE: In her chapter, "More Love, Less Manipulation: How LLMs Lead Us to Care," Andrea Hiott (host of Love & Philosophy) makes a distinction between using AI as a means toward deeper human connection, and mistaking AI as the destination of that connection.

Andrea writes about how feeling 'heard' by a chatbot doesn’t mean we’re experiencing the AI caring but rather we’re noticing our own capacity to care. We're experiencing our own capacity for connection, which is being reflected back through millions of human expressions that trained the model and that now we feel through our bodily habits that 'read that into' the language. The care was always ours. We can realize it and turn it back into true living, and we can help one another feel safe to be ourselves in that living presence.