AI for good : how real people are using artificial intelligence to fix things that matter / Josh Tyrangiel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tyrangiel, Josh, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence--Social aspects.

Artificial intelligence.

artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence--Industrial applications.

Genre:

Informational works.

Physical Description:

x, 257 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Other Title:

Artificial intelligence for good

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2026.

Summary:

"We've been told two stories about artificial intelligence. The first is a fairy tale: AI will cure cancer, educate every child, fix the government, and free us from poverty and drudgery. The second is a nightmare: AI will take our jobs, break democracy, and leave civilization in the hands of a few trillionaire tech executives--or their machines. It's possible neither of these is quite right. In this bold, funny, and deeply reported book, Josh Tyrangiel--one of America's most multitalented journalists--travels inside the institutions where AI isn't a gold rush or a looming apocalypse, but instead a tool that people are struggling to put to work. At the Cleveland Clinic, the Internal Revenue Service, an Indiana high school, and the Pentagon, he follows the engineers, doctors, teachers, and public servants who are testing AI against the real world, where data is messy, incentives are misaligned, and everything that matters is charged with human emotion. Along the way, Tyrangiel introduces unforgettable characters: a cardiac MRI pioneer determined to make lifesaving scans available to everyone; a band of government misfits who rewire vaccine distribution in the midst of a national panic; a teacher who tinkers with AI to make her class more human; and a brilliant scientist racing to decode the hidden patterns of expression in the sounds made by millions of autistic kids--including her own son. Their stories reveal the possibility of a different AI future: one where technology amplifies humanity to make the things we already care about -- education, health, government, connection--better."-- Book jacket flap.

Contents:

I believe the children are our future. Ed's dead ; How to train your tutor (while slowly losing your mind) ; You'll be disappointed for a long time until you're not ; Get buffington ; Every student's a critic ; More human today

Physician, heal thyself. Tommy ; Digital twins ; Twenty-dollar burgers in a haunted house ; The farmer and the samurai ; Hospitals and hotels ; Sepsis

A republic, if you can optimize it. The general's warning ; A logistical moonshot ; Brief moments for exceptional things ; Lululemon in the iron triangle ; The frozen middle ; An emotional nudge ; AI fight club at the IRS ; Dilettantes and vandals

Only connect. Eliza and her descendants ; Felix ; Zero-shot ; Mysteries in a hairbrush ; David and Goliath.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781668082508

1668082500

9781668241721

1668241722

OCLC:

1584402985

Publisher Number:

CIPO000375457