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Amber Ivey, also known as "AI", is an accomplished public sector leader, author, and innovator, currently serving as Vice President at a non-profit, leading a team that assists governments in driving impact. In her previous roles at the Bloomberg Philanthropies Center for Government Excellence at Johns Hopkins University and The Pew Charitable Trust, she demonstrated a knack for utilizing data to enhance decision-making and improve service delivery. Prior to these roles, Amber used her data-driven insights to drive efficiency at Maryland StateStat and a Fortune 50 company. As the founder of Ivey Collective and co-founder of AuraSense, Amber extends her impact, offering data-driven solutions to public sector organizations and aiming to provide equitable healthcare through innovative technology, respectively. Her commitment to enlightening a wider audience about data, technology, and law led to her creating and hosting the "AI: Decodes the System" podcast and authoring the children's book "AI... Meets... AI". Amber's career exemplifies her dedication to fostering a culture of data literacy and her vision of a technology-driven future.
Reviewed by Emily-Jane Hills Orford for Readers' Favorite
Addy Iris’s initials are AI, just like the AI named Jaz, the robot she meets on her way home from school. Jaz is lost and confused. He was created in a lab and released into the world to experience and learn about humans. In Amber Ivey’s AI... Meets... AI, Jaz quickly learns that the human world is big, busy, noisy, and confusing. Addy comes to the rescue and promises to help Jaz find his way home back to his lab. On the way, the two bond in friendship and share experiences. Jaz learns about caring, compassion, empathy, protecting the environment and so much more. Addy learns a lot, too.
Amber Ivey’s picture book, AI... Meets... AI, is an interesting introduction to the concept of artificial intelligence. Told in simple language so young readers can easily follow along, the plot follows Addy’s discovery of the AI named Jaz and their adventure together as she leads him back to his lab. There are a number of important concepts shared in this story, from stopping to help an elderly lady, to cleaning up the trash to protect the environment. And, of course, the best and most important lesson taught is the powerful bond of friendship. The illustrations are superb: bright, bold, colorful, and full of animation and life. There is a lot to learn and enjoy in this little treasure of a book and young readers will undoubtedly open up discussions on artificial intelligence and some of the other important concepts shared in the story. Beautifully told.
