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New York designer Janet Chan's typographic book on the ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence has become a hot topic of late, as many scientists have warned of its potential dangers. While it's predicted that robots will achieve the intelligence of humans in as little as 50 years from now, people generally see AI as an imaginary technology of the science fiction world... one that's depicted in a negative way, often fighting against their human creators and destroying the world.

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Charcoal-grey book cover with white sans-serif typography reading "I.A. ON A.I." by Janet Chan about Isaac Asimov's short stories on artificial intelligence ethics

New York graphic designer Janet Chan is particularly fascinated by A.I. and its implications, and has created I.A. on A.I., a visual interpretation of a collection of Isaac Asimov’s short stories on the ethics of artificial intelligence.

"My thesis is an attempt to bring the works of Asimov to the attention of the general public. He is one of the most famous sci-fi writers and is known for his stories on the ethical issues surrounding artificial intelligence. My book is a collection of Asimov's short stories, its inner spreads designed in the style of Quentin Fiore's The Medium is the Massage in order to attract the average reader to a sci-fi topic."

Janet received her BFA from Parsons School of Design, with a concentration in Communication Design and Data Visualization. Her client list includes Shanghai Project, M+ Screenings, Frieze New York, Guggenheim, Commercial Type, and Pye. Prior to working at design studio Project Projects, Chan worked as an art director for the Yorker Hotel in Hunan, China, as well as a design assistant at the Parsons Institute for Information Mapping; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. She is also the winner of the student bronze at Information is Beautiful Award 2016.

Two hands hold open Janet Chan's book I.A. on A.I., displaying a dark grey page with white sculptural form and the text "A robot may not injure
Open book spread showing a robotic hand on the left page and a human hand on the right, with text reading "The division between life and non life is perhaps an artificial one
Open spread of Janet Chan's I.A. on A.I. book displaying Asimov's Third Law of Robotics with black and white photographs and bold typography on white pages
Hand pointing to a page filled with binary code from Janet Chan's typographic book on Isaac Asimov's artificial intelligence stories
Open pages from Janet Chan's I.A. on A.I. book showing scientific illustrations of bulbous forms suspended in glasses with surrounding text about artificial intelligence ethics
Hands holding open Janet Chan's book I.A. on A.I., showing a detailed circuit board illustration on the left page and text about Isaac Asimov on the dark right page
Hands hold open Janet Chan's typographic book on Isaac Asimov's AI ethics stories, showing pages with dense black text and grayscale imagery
Hands holding open Janet Chan's typographic book I.A. on A.I., displaying a page with text and two small circular illustrations
Open book spread showing pages 142-143 of "I.A. on A.I." with text by Isaac Asimov and a hand turning the page
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