AI Everywhere, Volume 4

AI is already in your home. Who decided that?

AI arrived in our phones, our workplaces, our children's media, and even our most intimate moments. But on whose terms? Who owns the machines underneath? And how can we shape AI to protect our families and our humanity?

AI Everywhere, Volume 4 is written for people like you who are wrestling with these questions. It's part of the She Writes AI Everywhere series of human-centered guides to living and working well in an age of intelligent machines. Each volume and chapter is independent.

Why this book is different:

Volume 4 explores the intersection of emerging technology, societal ethics, and diverse human perspectives. It brings together 10 new chapters by 12 women and nonbinary authors from 7 countries who refuse to treat those questions as an afterthought.

What you'll gain from this book:

You'll learn how women around the world are deciding what to let in and what to refuse, and how to make those decisions in your own home and community.

- Make wiser choices about AI in your most personal moments. Explore how AI companionship works, and how one author used it through fertility and pregnancy (Ch. 3, 7).

- Create for and with children responsibly. Learn how to produce quality children's content with AI while avoiding "slop" (Ch. 2).

- See who holds the power, and how to push back. Understand how language gaps and control of computing resources shape who benefits from AI, and what it takes to escape digital feudalism (Ch. 4, 9).

- Take back agency and use AI on your own terms. Find practical frameworks for deciding what to let in and what to refuse, from Australia to the Global South (Ch. 6, 10).

- Learn what professional women are really using AI for. Move past the speed-and-productivity hype to see how AI is used for survival and for building things together (Ch. 1, 8).

- Understand where the field is heading. Get perspective on the fast-changing world of digital minds so you can navigate it with confidence (Ch. 5).

Chapters:

1. Alyssa Fu Ward, PhD and Natalie Nicholson (USA) - "What We Build When We Build Together"

2. Carla Engelbrecht, EdD (USA) - "Anti-Slop, Pro-AI: Responsible Children's Content Creation In The Age Of AI"

3. Cata Páez (Chile) - "What AI Companionship Revealed: The Relational Layer Of AI"

4. Cristina Oliva-Patrick (Italy, USA) - "The 'Word Wide Web' AI Divide: Language Inequalities In The AI Era"

5. Ida-Emilia Kaukonen (Finland) - "Digital Minds: A Field In Transition"

6. Jax NiCarthaigh (Australia) - "A For Agency: Human Agency In An AI World"

7. Lisa TY Lee (USA) - "AI As My Digital Companion Through Fertility And Pregnancy"

8. Mariam Vossough (UK) - "Not Speed, Survival: What Professional Women Are Really Using AI For"

9. Nadina Dorene Lisbon (USA) - "The Compute Trap: Escaping The New Digital Feudalism"

10. Verónica Ponce Camacho (Ecuador) - "On My Own Terms: A Serene Guide To Using AI From The Global South"

Also includes an Introduction and Afterword by Karen Smiley, plus extensive References.

In Volume 4, our 12 authors offer decades of combined hands-on experience with using AI and knowing when not to use AI. This book will help you learn how AI is shaping our society and lives and how we all can shape AI in turn, to not only survive, but thrive.