SUPERAGENCY

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Artificial Intelligence is a set of ideas humanity has pondered since antiquity with a mix of trepidation and excitement. Now, in the early days of the 21st century we’ve digitized a huge fraction of human experience, and through rapid advances in computer science and basic computing infrastructure have finally started to realize some of the long promises of AI. Super Agency is an important work, an encouragement to us all to think about how to harness the power of AI to amplify and enhance humanity. It asks us to imagine how to use this tool to give each of us a form of super agency with which we can create, connect, and invent more, and to nudge us to do what humans have always done: to become more essentially human through the use of our tools. The AI future that we build for ourselves will be entirely a function of our best collective imagination, our hopes and dreams for the problems we can solve with this technology, and the benefits we can create for ourselves and each other by making the most of AI’s vast potential.

—Kevin Scott
CTO of Microsoft

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Reid is one of the most pivotal thinkers and actors in the AI industry today. His consistent and grounded optimism about the potential here is a vital counterweight to a world that quickly forgets what benefits they can bring. In his brilliant new book “Superagency” he beautifully outlines a highly persuasive vision for what humanity can achieve at this critical juncture. A powerful and essential read for anyone who cares about AI, this is a rallying cry for a better future.

—Mustafa Suleyman
CEO of Microsoft AI and Co-Founder Inflection AI & DeepMind

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Superagency is the right book at the right time – a valuable resource for readers who are interested in AI and ready to move beyond the barren strife of social media disputation. Reid Hoffman has unparallelled first-hand knowledge of the industry, combined with a common-sense mentality and a knack for lucid and enjoyable prose.

—Neal Stephenson

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Superagency is the must-read guide to thinking about thinking now. Reid’s sharp urgency and powerful insights come directly from the wave of human and machine fusion sparking all around us. From his unique position on the front lines of this revolution, Reid does more than teach us to contemplate our human/machine future. He tells us very specifically how to thrive.

—Joshua Cooper Ramo
2x New York Times best-selling author of The Ago of the Unthinkable and The Seventh Sense

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Reid Hoffman is that rare Silicon Valley leader who seems suspicious of techno-utopianism but is nonetheless an unabashed evangelist for innovation as an indispensable propellant of human civilization. In Superagency, he makes a persuasive case for embracing our AI future—a world in which homo techne uses this powerful new tool in the unending quest for a gentler and more meaningful existence.

—Dele Olojede
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

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In Superagency, Hoffman and Beato present a thoughtful roadmap for an AI-enabled future that enhances human agency. Their optimistic vision of AI as a tool for individual empowerment and democratic renewal is a welcome addition to the discourse. If you want a hopeful, nuanced take on how AI can help create a better future for all of us, this is it!

—Andrew Ng
Managing General Partner, AI Fund and Founder, DeepLearning.AI

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Whether artificial intelligence is a threat or an opportunity depends on how we understand and use it. In his wonderful book Superagency, Reid Hoffman shows the way to make it part of a better, more prosperous future where we all benefit.

—Arthur C. Brooks
Harvard Professor and #1 New York Times bestselling author

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AI is the most important technology of our lifetimes. Superagency is one of the few books making the essential positive case that AI can and should massively benefit humanity. While we must navigate the risks, we need to have a future that we seek – and thus Superagency.

—Eric Schmidt
Former CEO of Google

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Much like Socrates’ parable of the silent paintings, ‘Superagency’ beckons us to break the stillness of fear and inertia, urging us to embrace AI as a new language of human agency, where iteration is the art of the future.

—Sean White
CEO, Inflection AI

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An inspiring picture of a future where AI doesn’t just automate tasks, but amplifies human potential. This vision resonates deeply with my own passion for democratizing learning. “Superagency” is a call to action for educators, technologists, and policymakers to embrace AI’s potential and work together to build a future where education truly empowers every individual to reach their full potential.

—Sal Khan
CEO Khan Academy

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Superagency is a refreshingly optimistic and welcome perspective on the future of AI. Rather than focusing on fear and disruption, Reid uses his “techno-humanist compass” to show how AI can help us make better decisions, achieve our goals, and create a more equitable and sustainable world. This is a must-read for thriving in the age of AI.

—Arianna Huffington
Founder & CEO, Thrive Global

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At a time when artificial intelligence is generating justifiable fears and excitement; exposing deep societal concerns and unlimited human potential, Reid Hoffman has emerged both as a trailblazing AI visionary and an invaluable thought leader on the nexus of technology and humanity. Reid has such deep knowledge about the human condition and a yearning for us to have a bolder moral imagination about how we can create a more caring, connected, and fulfilling society. For me, Superagency is a must read. Anyone who hopes this emerging technology, despite its potential challenges and shortcomings, can empower us all to create a more beloved community, would be wise to immerse themselves in Reid’s wisdom.

—Cory Booker
Senator, NJ

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Amid the Great Big AI Panic of 2024 – with so many nervously calling for tight regulations, or moratoria, or outright renunciation – Reid Hoffman and a few others have beckoned us to recall what actually works. To seek a “positive sum game,” where harms are caught and minimized and benefits multiply. For sure, it’s never been easy, calling for agile mixtures of regulation, foresight, competition and cooperation. But the potential life-saving — and maybe planet-saving — benefits are too myriad to ignore.

—David Brin
Author of The Postman and The Transparent Society.

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AI has the potential to usher in an era of soaring progress, and “Superagency” shows us how. Reid Hoffman and Greg Beato offer a clear roadmap for harnessing the power of AI to transform work, education, and healthcare. A must read!

—Erik Brynjolfsson
Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab and Co-Founder of Workhelix

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Reid has been at the center of this wave of AI innovation for nearly a decade and I couldn’t think of a kinder, more compassionate person to help shape our society. Superagency is a provocative, must-read for anyone interested in our shared AI future.

—Nancy Lublin
Founder of Dress for Success & 4x entrepreneur

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Reid wields his own Superintelligence to lay out a rationally optimistic case for the pivotal role Ai can play as a partner in our lives. He also reinforces the idea that the sexiest thing in the world is to be really really smart and Ai might just help us all be a little bit sexier. This is not the first time humanity has innovated and it will not be the last.

—Ashton Kutcher
Actor, Investor, Father

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AI could compress a century of progress into a decade. Superagency explores this radical possibility, challenging us to consider how we might shape an AI-enabled world that amplifies human potential.

—Dario Amodei
CEO & Co-Founder, Anthropic

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Within the maelstrom of contemporary debate about what AI will do for us – and to us – Reid Hoffman offers deeply thoughtful and grounded reasons for optimism. This book invites both the skeptical and the bullish to refine a vision for a thriving future and how to build it, rather than simply waiting for what happens next.

—Jonathan Zittrain
Professor of Law, Computer Science, and PublicPolicy, Harvard University; Co-founder, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

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One of the smartest and most thoughtful entrepreneurs of our time analyzing the most interesting subject of our age. The world will be much better if this book is right.

—Rory Stewart
Yale Professor and former UK Cabinet Minister