AI and Being Human
What happens to us—to who we are and what we value—as artificial intelligence becomes woven into the fabric of our lives?
This isn’t a hypothetical question. It’s one I grapple with every day, as a researcher studying technology transitions and the future of being human at Arizona State University, and as a person trying to make sense of a world where the line between human and machine capability is shifting faster than most of us expected.
My work in this revolves around a conviction that has only grown stronger as AI has become increasingly capable: that the rise of artificial intelligence is as much a human story as a technology one. The more sophisticated these systems become—the more convincingly they can write, reason, create, and predict—the more urgent it becomes to understand what remains distinctively, irreducibly ours.
This part of this site brings together the ideas, tools, and resources that have emerged from that work—much of it developed alongside my co-author Jeff Abbott in our book AI and the Art of Being Human.
What does it mean to be human in an age of AI?
The questions, the tensions, and why this matters more than most people realize.
21 Tools for Thriving with AI
Practical frameworks for navigating AI with agency, creativity, and care—from the book.
For Educators
Resources for teaching and learning in a world where AI changes what it means to think, create, and know.
These ideas also show up regularly in my writing. I explore them in my newsletter The Future of Being Human, and through my broader work on the Future of Being Human initiative at ASU. If you want to go deeper, AI and the Art of Being Human — the book Jeff Abbott and I wrote — lays out the full framework, complete with 21 practical tools and the fictional narratives that bring them to life.
It’s available wherever you get your books.