AI Needs You

How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own

by Verity Harding

"AI Needs You" (2024) dives into the world-altering capabilities of Artificial Intelligence and why it's crucial for everyone to help steer its course. The book argues that you don't need to be a tech whiz to play a vital role in ensuring AI benefits all of humanity.

About the author

Verity Harding is a big name in AI ethics and policy, earning a spot on TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI list. She heads up the AI & Geopolitics Project at the University of Cambridge's Bennett Institute for Public Policy and founded Formation Advisory, a firm that tackles the future of tech and society. Harding's know-how comes from her time as Google DeepMind's first Global Head of Policy and her earlier gig advising Britain's deputy prime minister.

AI's here to stay, and it's reshaping our world—find out why you should care and how you can make a difference.

Artificial Intelligence isn't just sci-fi anymore—it's woven into your everyday life, whether you realize it or not. Those personalized social media feeds and chatbots you interact with? That's AI at work. And we're just getting started.

As AI gets smarter, it could revolutionize healthcare, speed up scientific breakthroughs, and help tackle big issues like climate change. But with great tech comes great responsibility—the choices we make now about AI will shape humanity's future.

It's time for all of us to get involved with this game-changing technology. We need to understand what it can do, what could go wrong, and how we can guide it in the right direction.