Leading Futurist and Bestselling Author Jamie Metzl to Publish The AI Ten Commandments, Co-Authored With GPT-5
NEW YORK / AGILITYPR.NEWS / March 27, 2026 / At a moment of growing global anxiety about artificial intelligence and its potential harms, Jamie Metzl—a leading futurist and bestselling author exploring the deepest implications of our technological transformation—demonstrates how AI can help humanity forge a universal moral framework for the modern age. In his groundbreaking new book, The AI Ten Commandments: A New Moral Code for Humanity (Transcend Books, April 21, 2026)—the first major trade nonfiction work ever to name artificial intelligence as a co-author—Metzl and GPT-5, in an unprecedented collaboration, recast the biblical Ten Commandments using insights drawn from the full sweep of human history, philosophy, religion, indigenous traditions, humanism, and science.
While public debate has largely focused on AI’s risks, Metzl argues that advanced AI also has a profoundly underrecognized capacity to help humanity clarify and expand our deepest values. Co-written with GPT-5 through a clear division of labor that preserved human authorship, accountability, and voice while leveraging AI’s exceptional capacity for synthesis and historical perspective, The AI Ten Commandments explores the radical and timely idea that artificial intelligence, trained on humanity’s collective moral and cultural inheritance, can help us articulate enduring principles for living wisely and responsibly in the age ahead.
Urgent and hopeful in equal measure, the book offers ten universal principles designed to foster greater dignity, responsibility, and human flourishing in what Metzl—a regular commentator on Fox News, CNN, Bloomberg, and other media—calls the emerging “Human + AI era.”
About Jamie Metzl
Jamie Metzl is a leading voice on artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and the future of humanity. He is a Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council, a Commissioner of The Lancet Commission on Precision Health, and the author of seven books, including the international bestsellers Superconvergence and Hacking Darwin. Jamie previously served in the U.S. National Security Council and State Department, with the United Nations in Cambodia, and on the World Health Organization Expert Advisory Committee on Human Genome Editing. His ideas have reached hundreds of millions worldwide through his books, podcasts, media appearances, and speaking. He holds degrees from Brown, Harvard Law School, and Oxford and is an avid Ironman triathlete and ultramarathon runner.
Early Praise for The AI Ten Commandments
“I’ve spent my life exploring how computers can help people realize their dreams. The AI Ten Commandments asks an even bigger question: how can we collaborate with our most powerful new technologies to make the future kinder, more humane, and even more human? After decades optimizing our computer hardware and software, this book shows how we can use our new capabilities to optimize our values. It’s smart, practical, and deeply hopeful. If you care about the future, read this book.” —Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple; author of iWoz
"The AI Ten Commandments provides a compelling moral framework for a future when we merge with AI and greatly expand our intelligence."—Ray Kurzweil, inventor, futurist, and bestselling author of The Singularity Is Near
“In The AI Ten Commandments, Jamie Metzl takes on the anthropological challenges and opportunities of GPT-5. His contribution is an insightful treasure of information and a remarkable moral response to the epochal transformations our world is undergoing.”—Msgr. Carlo Maria Polvani, Secretary of the Vatican Dicastery for Culture and Education
“Jamie Metzl enlists ChatGPT-5 to scour and distill ten of the most enduring ethical principles across the world’s religions and philosophies, offering what he calls the “AI Ten Commandments.” While I’m not replacing the original Ten anytime soon, I was genuinely moved by the AI Ten—and by the deep humanity at their core. This book is less a substitute for Sinai than a contemporary midrash: a thoughtful invitation to meet new technology with accountability, wisdom, and the courage to choose a better future.”—Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, Senior Rabbi, Central Synagogue and author of Heart of a Stranger: An Unlikely Rabbi’s Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging
“Leading futurist and bestselling author Jamie Metzl deploys AI as a collective prism through which we can see ourselves as one, our innumerable differences notwithstanding. Trailblazing, audacious, and brimming with insight and ingenuity, The AI Ten Commandments: A New Moral Code for Humanity is an unfailing compass guiding us to our new True North: a future where technologies have the potential to amplify and augment our compassion, empathy, and humanity.”—Shashi Tharoor, Member of the Indian Parliament and bestselling author of The Great Indian Novel
“AI is here to stay and poses a duality of hope and terror. The AI Ten Commandments offers a desperately needed moral compass to guide AI’s development. As enlightened as Asimov’s Laws of Robotics, only more important in the present world.”—Enric Sala, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence and author of The Nature of Nature
“I’ll say it right up front: Thou shalt read this book and discuss it with thine friends and chatbots. Like most people, I’ve been struggling with whether AI will save humanity or destroy it. I still don’t know the answer, but Jamie Metzl makes the most compelling case yet that we can use AI for our species’ betterment. Both AI fans and AI skeptics will find Jamie Metzl’s book fascinating, bold, and provocative.”—A.J. Jacobs, bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically
“Technologies have always reshaped how we live, love, and build society. Metzl argues that, for the first time, we have the opportunity to work with these technologies to re-imagine the direction of that transformation. The AI Ten Commandments offers a fascinating roadmap for thinking about the world ahead.”—Debora Spar, Professor, Harvard Business School and author of Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny
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