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15,000 captive macaques. One naive 22-year-old vet tech. A summer you couldn’t make up if you tried. Nobody warns you what to do when a full grown rhesus with two-inch fangs and a 350-pound bite decides to charge. In the summer of 1995, twenty-two-year-old Jeff Pennington took a job as a veterinary technician at a sprawling primate breeding facility in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Within weeks he found himself alone in a corral, net in hand, learning exactly what the fight-or-flight instinct means. And that was a normal Tuesday.

AI on your terms. Not theirs. You Teach the Machines helps people of all backgrounds understand, live with, and use artificial intelligence. Told through real examples drawn from finance, cooking, technology, marketing, health, music, driving, and more, You Teach the Machines will help you maximize benefit and minimize harm from the AI-driven change already happening in your life. Find out what AI has to do with data privacy, the movie Trading Places, painter Bob Ross's Happy Little Clouds, the growth of the nuclear power industry, and your child or grandchild's classroom.