06/02/2026
When Dr. Manjeet Rege tells people what he does for a living, the conversation tends to go one of two ways. Either someone launches into a five-alarm warning about robots taking over the world, or there is a polite nod and a quick pivot to a safer topic. "My parents, my in laws, and most of my friends outside of tech still don't entirely know what I do," Rege jokes. "After enough family dinners and dinner parties like that, I started to think maybe the problem isn't them. Maybe the problem is that the rest of us in AI haven't been writing for them."
That thought is what led him to write his new book, Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence. Most of what gets published about AI today lives at one of two extremes. On one side sit dense academic papers written for fellow researchers. On the other sits breathless news coverage engineered to make you click. In between is a huge, curious, and dramatically underserved audience of readers who want to understand the technology that is quietly reshaping hiring, healthcare, finance, education, and even the courtroom, without needing a PhD or a panic attack to get through a chapter.
"There's a whole demographic getting the fear and almost none of the explanation," Rege says. "I wanted to write a book that anyone could pick up and walk away from feeling smarter. Not more anxious. Smarter." The book delivers on that promise. It walks readers, step by step, through the questions defining the AI era. Why do algorithms sometimes carry our worst biases forward? What is your data actually worth, and who decides what happens to it? When an AI system makes a call about your loan, your job application, or your medical care, who is accountable? And how do societies build guardrails for a technology moving faster than the laws meant to govern it?
What sets the book apart is its voice. It treats readers as smart and curious rather than as specialists or potential victims of a future Hollywood plot. With clear language, real world examples, and a refreshing absence of jargon, Rege turns one of the most important conversations of the decade into one that anyone can join. "Ethics in AI shouldn't be a discussion happening above people's heads," Rege says. "It's a discussion about all of us. So the book had to sound like one." The result is part guide, part field report, part invitation, and a compelling case that the future of AI is far too important to leave to the experts alone.
Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence is available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Ethics-Governance-Artificial-Intelligence-Frameworks-ebook/dp/B0GWYDVGZX/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0.
