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AI Editor at Fortune Magazine. Author of the forthcoming book Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future (Simon & Schuster, July 2024; Bedford Square, August 2024).

I’m excited to share that I’ve written a book. It’s about AI, the subject I’ve covered closely as a journalist for the past eight years. It’s called Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future. And it's now available for pre-order in the U.S. and the U.K! U.S. orders can be purchased here: https://lnkd.in/eNpP46j3 U.K. and the Commonwealth orders here: https://lnkd.in/eVffXHEP Mastering AI has been praised by technology journalist Ashlee Vance as “easily the best exploration to date on the perils and promise of AI." Brad Stone, author of the best-selling The Everything Store, says it is “a timely and urgent exploration of Al's dizzying acceleration, and of all the ways this new technology can either improve our society or totally upend it.” Publisher’s Weekly writes “striking a balance between bullishness and caution, Kahn sets out a helpful roadmap for harnessing the promise of AI while navigating its perils. The result is one of the more convincing assessments of how AI will transform society." The book is about the impact AI will have on our society and on our ourselves—changing everything from how we work and teach our children to how we think and relate to one another. I argue AI will give us all superpowers—increasing productivity and sparking a new era of entrepreneurship, personalized learning, improved medicine, and creative expression. But AI will do these things only if we are careful and deliberate about how we build it and choose to use it. The dangers this technology poses are real and numerous. The most pressing risks are the ones you’ve probably heard most about, such as mass unemployment or the possibility that AI will wipe out humanity. No, the real dangers are that AI will worsen inequality and diminish our human intelligence, degrading vital skills, from knowing how to write to understanding how to build relationships. I call out these risks and suggests ways we can avoid them. Pre-orders are vital to a book’s success and your support means a lot to me. The two links above will take you to the U.S. and U.K. publishers’ pages, both of which provide multiple options for placing your pre-orders. Thank you for your support!

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Congratulations! I’ll look forward to reading when the book is out.

Johny Cassidy FRSA

BBC journalist. Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University. Accessibility Champion and author of Journalism A11y. Co-chair of the BBC’s disabled staff network. RSA Fellow.

1mo

Looks like a must read. Will it be available in an accessible audio version? 🤞

Debby K

Lifetime Learner|Offering a non-social, tech-only knowledge base to help those in Information Technology stay current and learn about new solutions, risks, and opportunities.

1mo

Jeremy Kahn - Looks like it's going to be a great book. We have added it to our tech book listing: https://docs.teckedin.info/docs/teckedin-technology-books

Chris Sciacca

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1mo

Wow. bravo. Congratulations. ChatGPT book jacket quote "Kahn's book has the potential to become a NY Times best seller by year-end because it's all about me." 😂

Katherine Dunn

Content editor at Reuters Institute / Writing a book on GPS

1mo

Hitting that pre order button now 🔥🔥🔥🔥

I'm definitely pre-ordering this one. Jeremy's a great storyteller and the perfect person to write a book on this topic.

Tom Whittaker

Director and solicitor advocate at Burges Salmon LLP

1mo

Looking forward to reading it!

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1mo

Bravo Jeremy Kahn. I look forward to this - I appreciate your cautious optimism for this "dizzying" technology. Embracing the inevitability, and being not only conscious but preparing ourselves for the potential dangers.

Kashyap Kompella, CFA

CEO, RPA2AI Research | Author & Columnist | Visiting Professor

1mo

Congrats! Look forward to reading your book.

Amazing Jeremy. Such an important book to bring to the world. ⚡️

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