Cover: "AI" Is Not Inevitable
Page description: The title “"AI" Is Not Inevitable” is in white block letters on a black background with a few stars, text centered.
Two small arrows point to the word Earth, which is placed on top of a flattened illustration of the earth. A few stars are scattered around "AI." The illustration appears ink-drawn and scanned.
2-3: It has been elevated to a superhuman level that leads us to believe it is both inevitable & beyond our control.
Page description: The quote is split into two after the word "level", with the first half on the upper left an the second half on the lower right.
In the center is a wide illustration. On the left are various stacks of papers with headlines like "SUPERINTELLIGENCE SOON", "SMART AI CAN DO BETTER THAN YOU", "AI TODAY", "AI TAKES JOBS" and "AI HYPE" alongside various dollar bills.
In the center is a giant masked figure wearing a cape and with two hands extended towards the right side of the page.
In the eyeholes of its masks are dollar signs, and on top of its head are three miniature people. On the upper right of the page is a speech bubble coming from the giant that says "AI EVERYTHING OR ELSE!".
On the lower right are three miniature figures standing on earth, with three speech bubbles containing "?", "!", and "UM, WHY?"
4-5: When AI research, development, and deployment is rooted in people & communities from the start,
Page description: The quote is split into two after the word "deployment", with the first half on the top an the second half on the bottom. In the center is a wide illustration. In the center are five blobby figures holding hands around a many-pointed star with many shards of light.
Around them are various circles with illustrations of connected nodes in a graph, leaves, trees, symbols, and patterns. All of these illustrations are filled with white on a backdrop of a large dark oval.
6-7: We can get in front of these harms & create a future that values equity & humanity. - Dr. Timnit Gebru, Founder & Executive Director of The DAIR Institute
Page description: The quote is split into two after the word "harms", with the first half on the top an the second half on the bottom. In the center is a wide illustration with three houses, trees, grass, bushes and a path cutting between them. In and around the houses are various people engaged in activies.
Starting from left to right: a person wearing a hat playing with a cat, a pigtailed person reading in the grass, an old woman with a walker and a young person helping her cross the street, a wheelchair user going down the path with a dog, a lady watering plants in a window flowerbox, two friends looking at a shooting star on the roof, and five children playing while seated in a circle.
There are solar panels on the roofs, a bike leaning against the bush, an accessible ramp up to one of the houses, and a public a bench. In the sky are birds.
Back cover: DAIR - dair-institute.org
Page description: A hand-drawn illustration of the DAIR logo on a black background, with the dair-institute.org link written on the bottom.
