The One-Line Vow: One Sentence That Makes Your AI Commitment Public

“I will use AI to _______ so that _______.”

That’s it. First blank: your specific action with AI. Second blank: your human-centered purpose.

The One-Line Vow is a small rebellion against passive AI consumption. Private intentions evaporate. Public commitments hold. The instruction is to share it — on social media, in a team meeting, at a family dinner — and tell at least three people who will hold you accountable.

The format forces specificity and purpose into a single sentence. It’s specific enough to guide daily choices, open enough to evolve as you learn. And when thousands of people make vows together, individual choices become collective momentum.

Download the One Line Vow from the book’s website, or explore it in full in AI and the Art of Being Human.

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The On-Line Vow 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.