As artificial intelligence enters our world, challenging our ideas about everything from jobs to consciousness, many of us are asking ourselves the same deep question: what is human life really for? We wonder what is unique to the human experience, what kind of work is truly ours to do, and what it means to cultivate natural intelligence, even in the face of rapidly advancing technological futures. Are such futures inevitable, as Silicon Valley tells us, or might we shape our futures differently by centering the gifts of embodied reality? Written and lovingly hand-illustrated by an artist and computer scientist, Heart Work is a moving manifesto for these times — a guide to being human in the age of AI, or in any age at all.

"A book of radiance, rhythm, and radical love. The pulse of creativity runs all the way through." — Kim Krans of The Wild Unknown

"In a world of overwhelm, Heart Work regrounds its reader in essential human truths. It is a beautiful invitation." — Krista Tippett of On Being

Jonathan Harris is an artist, technologist, and author whose work explores how human beings make meaning given the tools of their time. After studying computer science at Princeton, he spent fifteen years creating digital artworks on and about the Internet. Heart Work is his first picture book.