What Should My Children Do?
A Human's Guide to the Age of AI

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In WHAT SHOULD MY CHILDREN DO? Daniel Susskind will teach you how to:Help your child double down on the basics (literacy and numeracy).Advocate for both AI-inclusive and AI-free assessments in your child’s schools to give the next generation a holistic education.Personalize your child’s learning experience with AI tutors.Train your child’s attention as a skill.Build up your child’s resilience to distraction through mindful technology use.Teach children to devote their lives to meaningful problems, rather than prestigious labels.Identify thrilling, high-opportunity career opportunities for your child.Manage expectations for your child’s future if AGI fundamentally changes our society.Develop flexible skills that will help you and your child flourish in any AI-powered version of the future.
Advance Praise for What Should My Children Do?

“As old paradigms of work and education fade, we need new ideas for a time of extreme change. This is a wise and brilliant guide that shows us not only what to do, but why human potential still matters.” —Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI and coauthor of The Coming Wave

“An essential navigation tool for parents and students alike. In What Should My Children Do?, Daniel Susskind looks plainly at some of the most urgent issues of our day and argues for flexibility, basic skills, and working with AI instead of against it. Susskind doesn't pretend to know exactly what's coming, but he offers a wise and constructive framework to make the future digestible, manageable and a little less terrifying.” —Pamela Druckerman, bestselling author of Bringing Up Bébé

“In an age when machines can master almost any technical skill, education must aim higher. Daniel Susskind makes a compelling case that we should prepare children not merely to be competent, but to become thoughtful, resilient, morally discerning human beings. What Should My Children Do? is a deeply humane guide to education in the age of AI—and a must-read." —Erik Brynjolfsson, Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor at Stanford University and co-author of The Second Machine Age

“Few subjects could be more urgent, and few writers are better equipped to address it. Daniel Susskind has thought deeply about the impact of AI on all of us and on future generations. He shows the way forward with a clarity that is rare in the midst of today’s uncertainties. I love his argument that succeeding in the coming decades will require not only the teaching of competence but the cultivation of character. This is a book not only to read but to reflect upon at length.” —William Hague, chancellor of University of Oxford

“Whether you're a parent, teacher, student, worker, or simply a curious human being, you'll benefit from Daniel Susskind's timely and important book. I found his discussion of the challenges and opportunities posed by A" to be cogent, prescient, and convincing—I believe that you will agree.” —Howard Gardner, John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Praise for Growth

Barack Obama’s ‘Best Books of 2024’ * Runner-up for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year 2024 * New Yorker Best Books of 2024

“This well-written, thought-provoking book is essential reading.” —Daron Acemoglu, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Why Nations Fail

“Susskind’s study is a tour de force.” —Gordon Brown, former British prime minister

“Clear and sensible . . . Growth succeeds smartly as a history of thought.” ―The Wall Street Journal

“Daniel Susskind writes with verve, style, and conviction about one of the most important issues of our age.” —Rory Stewart, former secretary of state for international Development (UK) and author of How Not to Be a Politician

“This is a wonderfully elegant and authoritative explanation-cum-manifesto for what is perhaps the most important economic issue facing us today—the mystery of economic growth and what we need to do to solve it.” —Andy Haldane, former chief economist and executive director of Financial Stability at the Bank of England and one of Time’s 100 most influential people of 2014

Praise for A World Without Work

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2020 * A Sunday Times Best Business Book of the Year 2020 * The Times of London Best Business Book of the Year 2020 * The Financial Times Best Books of the Year 2020

“Compelling . . . thought-provoking . . . Should be required reading for any presidential candidate thinking about the economy of the future.” ―The New York Times

“An excellent and timely piece of analysis . . . A book of immense importance that demands to be taken very seriously by No. 10, and by anyone who cares about the future of our country and world.” ―New Statesman

“A fascinating book about a vitally important topic—and he writes with such elegance that you don’t even notice how much you’re learning. Elegant, original, and compelling.” —Tim Harford, author of Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy

“A superb and sophisticated contribution to the debate over work in the age of artificial intelligence.” —Jeffrey D. Sachs, professor of economics, Columbia University, and president of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network