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Before AI Kills Us All: A Cheerful Little Book About What to Do in the Meantime
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 23 2026
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.10 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
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.
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