Before AI Kills Us All A Cheerful Little Book About What to Do in the Meantime

What if the AI apocalypse really is coming?

What if superintelligent machines, autonomous AI, or our future robot overlords decide humanity has had a pretty good run?

You could panic.

You could doomscroll.

Or you could go outside.

Before AI Kills Us All is a darkly funny, surprisingly tender illustrated satire about artificial intelligence, existential risk, robot takeovers, human extinction-and what to do while the experts argue about whether any of it will actually happen.

With childlike crayon illustrations, cheerful robots, abandoned data centers, hungry raccoons, philosophical vultures, a suspicious smartphone, and even a possible working time machine, Brien Norris asks the only survival question that really matters:

If the countdown is real-or even if it isn't-how do you want to spend the time you have?

The answer is gloriously low-tech.

Watch the sunset. Eat the good chocolate. Call your mother. Forgive somebody. Help a neighbor. Put down the screen. Be kinder. Love harder. Enjoy the ride.

Part AI apocalypse comedy, part grown-up picture book, part memento mori for the doomscrolling age, this is a survival guide that won't teach you how to defeat superintelligence.

It may remind you why being human is worth saving.