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<div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Many of you know I</span>’<span style="font-size: 16px;">ve been working hard on this book for the past three years. It’s finally out, from U of T Aevo Press.</span></div>
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The intended audience is not the academy but the public and undergrads trying to figure how anthropology can be useful to something like AI. </div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.14px; font-family: Bozon, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(89, 89, 89);">Unmasking the rituals and cultural norms that define communities of artificial intelligence (AI) workers,
<i>Humans of AI</i> demonstrates that there would be no AI without human intervention.</span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.14px; font-family: Bozon, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(89, 89, 89);">Not a day goes by without breathless commentary on the increasing power of this innovative technology. Hype flows from the sages of Silicon Valley.
But who is behind the evolution of this technology, and how does it really work? In Humans of AI, anthropologist Joseph Wilson details his efforts to understand the process and customs of AI development.</span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.14px; font-family: Bozon, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(89, 89, 89);">Wilson introduces readers to the hidden world of AI—behind the doors of chip design labs, coding bootcamps, and organizations teaching AI to speak
dozens of languages. He meets philosophers envisioning a future without disease or death, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who warns of AI’s existential risks, and ghost workers whose invisible labor powers the world’s biggest tech platforms. He also speaks
with writers, artists, and developers wrestling with the promise and peril of AI to find out what they really think of ChatGPT. Wilson’s empathetic and thoughtful investigation provides readers a front row view on how AI is actually made.</span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.14px; font-family: Bozon, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(89, 89, 89);"><i>Humans of AI</i> is indispensable in reminding people that the work of AI is not miraculous or magical, but vividly human.</span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.14px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I’m available for interviews, op/eds, podcasts, book talks etc. Review copies are available from
</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.14px; color: rgb(0, 120, 212); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487561659" title="https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487561659" data-outlook-id="d4751081-3d15-479f-aa49-ca77fbf19eef" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 212);">Aevo</a><a href="https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487561659" title="https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487561659" data-outlook-id="e28ed446-7df4-4b2a-9952-f7c0f103fcd1" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 212);"> U
of T Press</a></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.14px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Drop me a line or contact Maya Ventresca at UTP directly:
</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.14px; color: rgb(0, 120, 212); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="mailto:mventresca@utorontopress.com" class="ms-outlook-linkify" title="mailto:mventresca@utorontopress.com" data-outlook-id="3462b752-0cb0-4977-a44c-78408667b4ba" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 212);">mventresca@utorontopress.com</a></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hope to talk soon,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><u><a href="http://www.josephwilson.ca/" title="http://www.josephwilson.ca/" data-outlook-id="71347bc7-35da-421c-a8b3-c3047392d211" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">www.josephwilson.ca</a></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><u>@josephwilsonca.bsky.social </u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><u><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-wilson-1191659/" title="https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-wilson-1191659/" data-outlook-id="3103d7d3-1de3-4e69-a26d-2b2f71f3bb35" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">LinkedIn</a></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Out now:
<i>Humans of AI: Understanding the People Behind the Machines</i>. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 120, 212);"><a href="https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487561659" title="https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487561659" data-outlook-id="5bfbdc8e-c45e-4ec4-9b5e-5ce525aed8e8" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 212); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">University
of Toronto Press Aevo</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">.</span></p>
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