As artificial intelligence enters our world, challenging our ideas about everything from jobs to consciousness, many of us are asking ourselves the same deep question: what is human life really for? We wonder what is unique to the human experience, what kind of work is truly ours to do, and what it means to cultivate natural intelligence, even in the face of rapidly advancing technological futures. Are such futures inevitable, as Silicon Valley tells us, or might we shape our futures differently by centering the gifts of embodied reality? Written and lovingly hand-illustrated by an artist and computer scientist, Heart Work is a moving manifesto for these times — a guide to being human in the age of AI, or in any age at all.