WALKING BESIDE AI

What happens when a man who has lived through more than seventy years of change begins talking with AI almost every day?is not a technical book about artificial intelligence. It is a personal story about learning, writing, publishing, memory, and thinking in the age of AI. James Daniel Lee is a retired English teacher and writer who began using ChatGPT in 2023. What started as a simple experiment gradually became a daily conversation.
Along the way, AI helped him edit his writing, improve his English, organize his books, recover old memories, and discover stories he had almost forgotten. But he never simply accepted everything AI said. He questioned it. He argued with it. He corrected it. And sometimes he told it plainly that it was wrong. This book explores what it means to work with AI without giving up your own mind. AI can be a tool, a learning partner, and a thinking partner.
But it should never become your master. Through nine personal essays, James shares what he has learned from working with AI-and what he believes human beings must never give up: curiosity, experience, independent thinking, and the courage to question. WALKING BESIDE AI is an invitation to move forward with AI, while keeping your own mind and your own voice.