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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.

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This book wasn't written about AI. It was written with one. Every chapter emerged through a sustained partnership between Richard Seltzer and his AI collaborator, Simon. Legally, the copyright appears in Richard's name. Practically, the book was co-created-a duet between a human author and his digital partner. Richard Seltzer is the author of more than two dozen books spanning fiction, memoir, and technology. A longtime editor, translator, and Internet evangelist, he now explores a new frontier: creative partnership with an emerging digital intelligence.

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