We Are What We Ask gathers more than four hundred and fifty questions posed to seven major thinkers of our time: Yuval Noah Harari, Max Tegmark, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Geoffrey Hinton, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Sundar Pichai. These questions are drawn from conversations across major podcasts, interviews, and online platforms.
Instead of offering predictions or arguments, the book returns to the questions that are shaping our hopes, fears, and uncertainties as AI enters our lives. These questions about trust, power, intimacy, intelligence, danger, and possibility form a record of how we tried to understand a moment larger than us.
But this is not only a book about AI. It is a book about questions themselves and what they reveal. Questions show us what we value, what we fear, what we hope for, and what we avoid. They reveal us to ourselves and to the world, often more honestly than our answers do.
That is why this is a help-self book, not a self-help book. Rather than telling you what to think or believe, it hands the compass back to you.