The Pocket Card: Four Principles You Can Carry
The Pocket Card is exactly what it sounds like: a physical card, small enough for a wallet, with the four principles — curiosity, intentionality, clarity, care — arranged like compass points.
It’s also, in some ways, the most subversive tool in the book. In a world of sophisticated AI frameworks and multi-step methodologies, the suggestion that you should print something on cardstock and carry it in your pocket is almost absurdly analog. That’s the point. Tangible wisdom in a digital world. A physical object that says: these things matter, and they’re worth having within reach when notifications flood you with false urgency.
The card appears at the climax of the book, when Elena and Samir host a global broadcast inviting collective commitment. Three breaths for the four principles. A physical reminder of what you’ve chosen to stand for.
Download the Pocket Card from the book’s website, or explore it in full in AI and the Art of Being Human.
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The Pocket Card is one of 21 practical tools from AI and the Art of Being Human by Jeffrey Abbott and Andrew Maynard. The characters and narratives in the book are fictional — designed to reveal truths about AI and being human that only stories can capture.