Acknowledgments

This textbook is an open educational resource, and its existence reflects a commitment to making AI education accessible to everyone, regardless of their ability to pay for expensive proprietary textbooks.

We acknowledge the broader academic community whose research informs every chapter of this book — the computer scientists, ethicists, sociologists, legal scholars, journalists, and advocates whose work makes AI literacy possible. Where we have been able to verify specific sources, they are cited in the bibliography. Where we reference general findings in the field, we have aimed to attribute accurately and hedge honestly.

We are grateful to the open-source and open-education communities that demonstrate daily that knowledge grows when shared freely.

Finally, we acknowledge you, the reader, for investing your time in understanding a technology that will shape the world you live in. AI literacy is a civic skill, and by reading this book, you're exercising it.

This is a living document. Contributors who improve this textbook through corrections, additions, or translations will be recognized here. See CONTRIBUTING.md for how to participate.