Wise AI: Using powerful technology in a deeply human way

by Daniel Sih, Paul Matthews

236 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 13, 2026

About the author

Daniel Sih is the co-founder and director of Spacemakers, a productivity consulting group for busy leaders.

His book "Spacemaker" won the Australian Business Book Award in 2021 for Personal Development, and has been shortlisted for myriad awards.

"Raising Tech-Healthy Humans" is his newest book, empowering parents' to reset their children's tech habits and give them a great start to life.

Daniel lives in Tasmania, Australia with his wife, Kylie, and their three children, Naomi, Caleb and Jethro. He also keeps fourteen Barnevelder chickens who eat a lot of grain, and lay too few eggs.

To learn more about Daniel and his work, please visit www.spacemakers.com.au and www.raisinghumans.au

Reviews

[Andrew Bishop]

AI applications are now part of our every day life- and they are so useful and can save so much time but we are busier and busier. So is the opening message of this book. Wise AI is all about taking a step back and a couple of deep breaths and, importantly, understanding and taking charge of the technology so it is truly beneficial to us as humans and the lives we lead. Yes, AI saves time but rather than direct time gained into more and more work consider that time being directed to what is really important in our lives. Simple but brilliant. From first to last page, this book will make you think and reflect on how you use AI and importantly provide you with the guidance to truly get the balance right. It's not a tech book but rather a book that focuses on us as humans and ensuring a quality of life rather than becoming slaves to AI. An important read for everyone; an essential read for all AI users.

[Dave]

Sih and Matthews teamed up to work on this book after working on podcasts together for many years. They bring together a desire to see an increase in human flourishing with technical skills to help someone start in using large language model AI tools and then, with the productivity gained, be able to make decisions about how to do deeper, more human work.

Their vision for AI is a set of tools that help the human user be better at their skilled work, not fully delegate human creativity to the machine.

It would be a great starting point for someone wanting to think through how AI could assist them in making better use of existing habits toward self-improvement.

[Nikki Long]

Some great advise and tips to put into action- that I’ll keep coming back to.

“You don’t need to know everything there is to know about using AI wisely, and you don’t need to. What you now have is something more important: a solid foundation and a licence to learn”