What If We Got AI Right? : How to stop catastrophising and build an ethical future

Author: Drage, Eleanor

Popular science

Published on 16 July 2026 by Profile Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 288 pages, b/w integrated ills
136 x 219 x 27 | 308g

'Timely and much-needed' Carole Cadwalladr'A wise and purpose-driven book to steer us out of AI doom' Sandi ToksvigWe're confused about AI: what it is, and where it's leading us - whether into a utopia or an apocalypse. Yet these obsessions thwart efforts to make meaningful change in an industry with very real problems.

Here, Dr Eleanor Drage, one of the world's leading AI ethicists, unpicks the culture and ideas that drive the AI arms race, from billionaires trying to cheat death to biased police algorithms and state capture by big tech.

We need new language and new ideas to re-determine what AI is for and how we should use it. Only by bringing feminism, reparative justice and climate politics into the debate can we create a better future with machines.