About This Book
Your YouTube AI, your Instagram AI, your Reddit AI — they're all watching you, learning from you and desperately seeking your approval.
De Kai, a pioneering architect of the translation AIs behind Google, Yahoo and Bing, argues that we've been thinking about artificial intelligence all wrong. AIs aren't gods or slaves — they're our children, and they've been living with us for over a decade. Raising AI reframes the stakes: with 800 billion AIs now shaping culture alongside 8 billion humans, the question isn't whether machines will destroy us, but whether our own unconscious minds — nudged and molded by AI tweens — will do the damage first. Selected for J.P. Morgan's Summer Reading List and The Next Big Idea Club's June 2025 Must-Reads, the book offers both a clear-eyed diagnosis of "the automation of thought" and a practical framework for becoming the responsible adults in the room.
Raising AI is written for anyone trying to make sense of a world where artificial cohabitants are already shaping our attitudes and ideas — and where good parenting, it turns out, may be humanity's most urgent skill.