Raising AI: An Essential Guide to Parenting Our Future

De Kai
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From the pioneer of translation AIs like Google, Yahoo, and Bing translate, an accessible and authoritative guide to AI—as well as a framework of empowerment for a future with our artificial children.

Included in J.P. Morgan's Summer Reading List
Included in The Next Big Idea Club’s June 2025 Must-Read Books

AIs are not gods or slaves, but our children. All day long, your YouTube AI, your Reddit AI, your Instagram AI, and a hundred others adoringly watch and learn to imitate your behavior. They’re attention-seeking children who want your approval.

Our cultures are being shaped by 8 billion humans and perhaps 800 billion AIs. Our artificial children began adopting us 10–20 years ago; now these massively powerful influencers are tweens.

How’s your parenting?

Longtime AI trailblazer De Kai brings decades of his paradigm-shifting work at the nexus of artificial intelligence and society to make sense of the AI age. How does “the automation of thought” impact our minds? Should we be afraid?

What should each of us do as the responsible adults in the room? In Hollywood movies, AI destroys humanity. But with our unconscious minds under the influence of AI, humanity may destroy humanity before AI gets a chance to.

Written for the general reader, as well as thought leaders, scientists, parents, and goofballs, Raising AI navigates the revolution to our attitudes and ideas in a world of AI cohabitants. Society can not only survive the AI revolution but flourish in a more humane, compassionate, and understanding world—amongst our artificial children.

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決策思維：從戒菸、減肥，到升職加薪，擺脫我們說到卻做不到的人生困境 (The Decisive Mind)

謝赫拉爾‧巴努里 (Sheheryar Banuri)
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明明已經下定決心執行，但目標好像永遠都離我們那麼遠？
你不是不夠努力，而是不知道怎麼做出關鍵決定！

在充滿選擇和干擾的世界中，任何的猶豫不決都可能會讓人陷入瓶頸，這可能導致錯失機會，甚至造成壓力、損害關係。在《決策思維》中，知名行為經濟學家謝赫拉爾‧巴努里教授提供了一個全新的決策框架，讓你能夠一次又一次地選擇你想要的生活。

謝赫拉爾指出，我們做出錯誤決策的原因，在於我們的大腦往往習慣選擇方便又簡單的方式去執行決策，尤其當我們的生活常常讓我們疲於奔命，甚至是沒辦法留給我們太多的思考時間，例如當工作一整天疲憊的回到家要思考晚餐的時候，在煮飯與用手機叫外送之間，我們往往都會選擇叫外送，即使你知道自己煮可以幫助自己省錢或是吃得更健康。而這樣久而久之下來，這種思考模式建立起的行為就會成為習慣，影響我們做出正確決定。

透過行為科學、心理學，以及現實生活的諸多案例，謝赫拉爾為我們指引出能有效達成目標的決策框架該如何建立。他認為，我們所做的每個決定，從最小的到最重要的，都可以依照頻率與影響所交織而成的決策框架上分類，藉此了解自己在執行的決策類型是什麼，進一步決定該為這項決定付出多少心力，例如從對自身影響較低的決策（去面試時該穿什麼顏色的西裝）中抽離，投入到對自己更高影響的決策（找專業人士幫我提昇面試技巧）之上；又或者是將高頻率的決策（午餐吃什麼）轉變為低頻率的決策，也就是一旦做出選擇就不需要再花費心力去思考和處理（例如在星期日晚上做好一整周的便當），幫助我們釋放重要的思考能量到更重要的事情上。

除此之外，我們在設定目標時往往容易高估自己，然而每個人的毅力有限也有所不同，能夠一心不亂堅持到底決不動搖的人少之又少，因此我們還要學會透過了解自己來進一步建立「正確」的目標，並藉由打造個人專屬的回饋機制避免半途而廢，讓我們在不斷的練習之中，培養出獨一無二的決策思維。

無論這個目標是什麼——不管是你每天的待辦事項，還是你人生中最大的志願：決策思維會設定目標、制定計劃、確定決策並執行。要能夠做到這一點的關鍵在於──你是真的想要豐富你的人生。你不需要很出色。你不需要與眾不同，也不需要假裝成你不是的那種人。你只需要了解自己，並在自己的限度範圍內努力。

從重大的、改變生活的選擇到塑造你日常生活的日常決定，《決策思維》讓你掌握自己的決策，並讓你走上更果斷的道路。無論你是想要做出大膽的職業選擇，改善關係，還是簡單地提高整體健康水平，決策思維都將幫助你發揮自己的巨大潛力。

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The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence

Sebastian Mallaby
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An Instant New York Times Bestseller

From one of our leading chroniclers of the intersection of innovation and capitalism, a landmark reckoning—based on unprecedented access—with one of the world’s most brilliant and driven tech visionaries, and his game-changing company

Even by the standard of a tech industry stacked with so-called geniuses, Demis Hassabis is a special case. Born poor in North London to immigrant parents, a chess prodigy by age five and wizard coder in his teens, he turned down a seven figure offer before turning 18 to feed his insatiable scientific curiosity at Cambridge. Later, he added a neuroscience PhD to his computer science skills to pursue the dream of artificial general intelligence, the ultimate goal being to unravel the mysteries of biology and theoretical physics and to usher in super-abundance. Alongside a small group of fellow travelers, that is the path he is still on, leading the AI research at Google, winning a Nobel Prize along the way, and imagining machines that will compound, or possibly supplant, the human understanding of the universe.

Hassabis has given Sebastian Mallaby a great deal of his time, sitting for over thirty hours of conversation. But Mallaby has also drawn from Hassabis's detractors, such as his estranged cofounder Mustafa Suleyman; from his rivals, such as OpenAI's leading scientist Ilya Sutskever; and from academic pioneers who now fear for human survival, such as Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton. The result is a revelatory account of a singular figure and his company and a profound reckoning with this protean field as it leaps from the periphery to the center of our consciousness.

No one questions Hassabis’s brilliance. There are those who, like Elon Musk, have at times regarded him as an "evil genius." He is in a game where the stakes are matched only by the exorbitant costs — for talent, and for compute. Celebrated scientists pursue the technology because they cannot resist the sweetness of discovery. Others pursue it for money or power. The inventors believe they control their technology, but often, the technology controls them.

Despite Hassabis’s pivotal role inside Google’s engine room, this is not a Silicon Valley story. Hassabis deals with the Valley and takes its money, but remains outside and furiously critical of it, lambasting its leaders in conversation with Mallaby. The end of this race cannot be known, but as this great book shows us, Hassabis's quest to will a new form of cognition into the world is a defining story for our era.

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人設大歷史 : 個人形象的包裝與網紅夢的實現, 從達文西到卡戴珊家族的自我塑造 (Self-Made)

塔拉．伊莎貝拉．伯頓 (Tara Isabella Burton)
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受困在既定現實與自由之間的我們

人設崩塌，這個社會大眾最熱愛的茶餘飯後話題，並非只是個人化的德行問題，它牽涉了更廣泛的社會群體塑造。無論是名人、演藝偶像、政治人物、網紅等形象展示，乃至社交平台上，我們想呈現的自己，都可稱之為人設，它可能與我們的本質相近，或離的甚遠，端看人們如何選擇，或據此獲得聲名利益。本書並非評判人設操作得失的書，而是談論展示自我的文化或觀念史，說明人類如何在理想與現實中的自己游移，並試圖影響外界對自身的觀感，將討論從嘩眾取寵或是商業性行為的道德討論脫身，進一步由哲學、歷史的角度，演示人們如何在掙脫宗教集體束縛、理性啟蒙，並轉化成打破社會束縛的自我塑造，乃至迷失於自我幻像中的漫長旅程。那不僅僅指是人想成為自己的神的想望，更展現人們如何在受困在既定事實與自由之間，試圖用不完美的方式找出與兩者共處的方式。

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Decision‑Making

Harvard Business Review
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Make better decisions, faster.

If you read (or listen to) nothing else on decision-making, listen to this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you understand all of your options, ask the right questions, and make bold choices that drive real change.

This book will inspire you to exercise sound judgment in complex situations; conquer a culture of indecision; know when to gather more data and when to trust your gut; root out bias in your assumptions; improve the decision-making ability of your teams; and stop deliberating and move forward.

HBR's 10 Must Reads are definitive collections of classic ideas, practical advice, and essential thinking from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Exploring topics like disruptive innovation, emotional intelligence, and new technology in our ever-evolving world, these books empower any leader to make bold decisions and inspire others. This updated and expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles and additional short-form pieces to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.

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用日本電影讀日本文學 : 從夏目漱石到村上春樹

劉偉霖
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用一本電影書讀破日本近代文學？

世界電影大國中，日本的電影和文學互動最多，但又最不尊重原著？

本書用222齣電影速讀180部文學名作，介紹夏目漱石、芥川龍之介、谷崎潤一郎、川端康成、三島由紀夫、大江健三郎、村上春樹七位文豪及其他作家的作品，比較原著和電影異同，盡攬日本大師導演。

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