A PIONEERING THINKER WEAVES TOGETHER FICTION, MEMOIR AND AI SCIENCE INTO A BLUEPRINT TO SAVE THE PLANET.

How can humans and non-humans come together to save the planet in an age of climate crisis? In recent years, we have seen a rise in the popular understanding of non-human intelligence, from octopi to mushrooms to AI. At the same time, man-made systems are under increasing pressure on a warming planet. What must be done to remake our future?

In Air Age Blueprint, K Allado-McDowell – a pioneering thinker at the intersection of ecology, and technology – with their writing partner GPT-3, tells the hopeful story of a future where artists, shamans and AI researchers collaborate to preserve the ecosystem. Weaving together fiction, memoir, theory and travelogue, Air Age Blueprint grapples with the legacies of colonialism, centuries of ecological destruction and rapacious techno-capitalism, to present a blueprint for surviving the 21st century, drawing lessons from Indigenous knowledges, neuroscience, art, psychedelic research and other-than-human intelligence.
 
Contributor Bio(s)
 
K Allado-McDowell is a writer, speaker, and musician. They are the author, with GPT-3, of the book Pharmako-AI, and are co-editor, with Ben Vickers, of the Atlas of Anomalous AI. They record and release music under the name Qenric. Allado-McDowell established the Artists + Machine Intelligence program at Google AI. They are a conference speaker, educator and consultant to think-tanks and institutions seeking to align their work with deeper traditions of human understanding.
Key Selling Points
For readers of Michael Pollan, Merlin Sheldrake, Robin Wall Kimmerer, James Bridle, Anna Tsing, Donna Haraway and Peter Godfrey-Smith
From the author of Pharmako-AI, the first book ever to be co-written with GPT-3
A pioneering thinker in the field of intelligence, ecology and AI
Author Hometown: Northern CA