| International Standard Book Number |
9781668082508
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| International Standard Book Number |
1668082500
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781668241721
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| International Standard Book Number |
1668241722
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
006.3
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| Personal Name |
Tyrangiel, Josh, author.
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| Title Statement |
AI for good : how real people are using artificial intelligence to fix things that matter / Josh Tyrangiel.
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| Varying Form of Title |
Artificial intelligence for good.
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| Edition Statement |
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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| Imprint |
©2026.
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| Imprint |
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
x, 257 pages ; 24 cm.
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| General Note |
Includes index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
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.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"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.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Artificial intelligence Social aspects.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Artificial intelligence.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Artificial intelligence Industrial applications
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Informational works.
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