★From birth to death, 10 ordinary people's questions about AI—refined by a designer-turned-media artist into an essential guide to keeping our humanity intact in an age of intelligent machines.

Is AI a replacement for humans or a life partner? 10 questions to help you move beyond ethical dilemmas and fears and keep your humanity intact.

As we're all realizing, AI technology is seeping into our daily lives at an alarming rate. Who would have thought that AI would be able to learn from humans so quickly? While we're impressed, we're also faced with a dilemma. What are we supposed to do in the face of a jack-of-all-trades, a masterful AI? How can we use it intelligently as a life partner, but do it right without losing our humanity?

In One Day the Future Arrived, the author says that in a time when advanced machines can provide all the answers, it is our humanity and our ability to ask questions that are innate to the human condition that matter most.

The author, Soogyeong Woo, has worked as an advanced designer, AI-based media artist, and professor who anticipates and implements human life as technology changes it. As someone who has been thinking about AI as a "life companion," not just a "practical tool," the author employs a subjunctive storytelling device reminiscent of science fiction to engage the readers in her examination of the imagined future of AI as a life partner.

From her parents curious about AI even in their seventies, her junior with a daughter worried about deep-fake sexual exploitation porn, her fellow professor struggling with setting the boundary of the permissible use of AI tools, to her student uneasy about the idea that the skills they learned could easily be replaced by AI at any moment, the author has taken the questions that ordinary people in her life have asked her and refined them into 10 questions that ask about "the AI experience at all moments, from birth to death."

Woo Soogyeong
Woo Soogyeong is an AI media artist and designer. Woo considers not only "artificial intelligence as a practical tool" but also "artificial intelligence as a life companion."

She worked for 10 years at Samsung Electronics as an Advanced Designer, utilizing cutting-edge technology to envision and design innovative objects and experiences. This experience led her to realize that people's responsibilities and thoughts are more important than technology.

She received her PhD in Media Design from Ewha Womans University and taught at Sungkyunkwan University's College of Art and Hongik University's College of Fine Arts.