Advance Praise

I’ve spent my life exploring how computers can help people realize their dreams. The AI Ten Commandments asks an even bigger question: how can we collaborate with our most powerful new technologies to make the future kinder, more humane, and even more human? After decades optimizing our computer hardware and software, this book shows how we can use our new capabilities to optimize our values. It’s smart, practical, and deeply hopeful. If you care about the future, read this book.”

Metzl’s engagement with AI over the last decade as a public intellectual and author of multiple books must be taken into account—this is, in fact, a learned and thoughtful discussion of the future of AI. A nuanced reflection on the moral codes that have shaped humanity—and their future in an AI world.”

In The AI Ten Commandments, Jamie Metzl takes on the anthropological challenges and opportunities of GPT-5. His contribution is an insightful treasure of information and a remarkable moral response to the epochal transformations our world is undergoing.”

Jamie Metzl enlists ChatGPT-5 to scour and distill ten of the most enduring ethical principles across the world’s religions and philosophies, offering what he calls the “AI Ten Commandments.” While I’m not replacing the original Ten anytime soon, I was genuinely moved by the AI Ten—and by the deep humanity at their core. This book is less a substitute for Sinai than a contemporary midrash: a thoughtful invitation to meet new technology with accountability, wisdom, and the courage to choose a better future.”

Leading futurist and bestselling author Jamie Metzl deploys AI as a collective prism through which we can see ourselves as one, our innumerable differences notwithstanding.  Trailblazing, audacious, and brimming with insight and ingenuity, The AI Ten Commandments: A New Moral Code for Humanity is an unfailing compass guiding us to our new True North: a future where technologies have the potential to amplify and augment our compassion, empathy, and humanity.”

AI is here to stay and poses a duality of hope and terror. The AI Ten Commandments offers a desperately needed moral compass to guide AI’s development. As enlightened as Asimov’s Laws of Robotics, only more important in the present world.”

I’ll say it right up front: Thou shalt read this book and discuss it with thine friends and chatbots. Like most people, I’ve been struggling with whether AI will save humanity or destroy it. I still don’t know the answer, but Jamie Metzl makes the most compelling case yet that we can use AI for our species’ betterment. Both AI fans and AI skeptics will find Jamie Metzl’s book fascinating, bold, and provocative.”

Technologies have always reshaped how we live, love, and build society. Metzl argues that, for the first time, we have the opportunity to work with these technologies to re-imagine the direction of that transformation. The AI Ten Commandments offers a fascinating roadmap for thinking about the world ahead.”