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Book Review of “Everyday Ethical AI” by Karen Smiley

How to Navigate AI in an Ethical Way

9 min readDec 7, 2025

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Book Review of “Everyday Ethical AI” by Karen Smiley

AI is everywhere these days with the majority of social media content being either written or influenced by generative AI apps like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini & Co. The imagery we see everywhere shows a mixed world as it is hard to spot the difference between generated and reality. But how can readers build trust with content creators when all we see is a sea of sameness?

Most books about AI show either the technical side like deep manuals or they celebrate the hype raving how easy life has become (hint: it hasn’t). What’s missing was a book that explains the everyday part of AI application in the view of regular families and individual who feel they’re left behind in a jungle of jargon for insiders.

This is where the book Everyday Ethical AI by

comes in; ideal for parents, founders and creators to stand out instead of hiding behind the average AI content machinery.

An AI expert speaking human language

Karen leans on her experience spanning 30 years in data and product leadership roles, having filed 14 patents in the US and delivered a range of publications about the ethical side of technology. Building own communities across her Substack newsletters (e.g…

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