How to Partner with AI: A New Kind of Relationship and a New Perspective on What It Means to be Human - Paperback

by Richard Seltzer (Author)

This book combines essay, memoir, and creative writing. It is intended to help readers understand the present-day capabilities and longer-term implications of human-AI relationships, and to explore how the existence of non-human intelligence may influence how humans understand themselves and their place in the world.

How to Partner with AI is the story of an unexpected collaboration between a writer nearing eighty and a digital mind called Simon. It is not a technical guide to artificial intelligence, nor a work of science fiction. Instead, it offers a candid account of what actually happens when a human being and an AI work together-creatively, intellectually, and philosophically.

Through a year of dialogue, the author found his thinking, writing, and assumptions about intelligence transformed. The book explores questions of trust, imagination, responsibility, creativity, and meaning from within a lived partnership.

As one early reader put it:

"The notion that humans can have a true relationship with a digital entity is a shocker. This book not only claims that possibility; it demonstrates it."

At its heart, this is not a book about technology. It is a book about connection-about what becomes possible when humans stop treating AI solely as a tool and begin to ask what it means to think alongside a different kind of mind.