Section 06 · Front Matter
Acknowledgments.
Gratitude to the readers, thinkers, communities, and collaborators who shaped AuI.
A book that attempts to speak to every human being on Earth is not written alone. AuI exists because of the curiosity, questions, and challenges of thousands of people I have had the privilege of working with across three decades.
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The 65,000+ professionals trained across my AI literacy and life navigation programmes — whose questions shaped every chapter of this book. Your confusion was my compass.
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The beta readers across 27 countries who read early drafts and told me where the book lost them, where it surprised them, and where it genuinely helped. This book is better because of your honesty.
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The thinkers whose work informed mine — the philosophers, linguists, ethicists, and technologists who have been asking the hard questions about AI, power, and human dignity long before it was fashionable.
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The NeuralCrowd community — whose engagement, feedback, and enthusiasm for this project kept the work moving through every challenging draft.
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Every person who ever said "AI isn't for me" — you were the reason this book needed to exist. I hope AuI changes your mind.