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The technology of AI (artificial intelligence) forms a significant part of our current reality and will continue to do so in the future. We use it for a more efficient way to do things in many areas of our lives. We use it, for instance, in the fields of education, entertainment, security and military, business and marketing, transportation, communication, and health care. Its unique features, such as the speed and lack of transparency in its operations, its capacity to identify patterns in a vast amount of data and use these patterns to predict behavior and produce new data, and the growing autonomy with which it makes decisions, however, have given rise to new ethical challenges. If we intend to use this technology to contribute to human flourishing, we should be able to meet these challenges. Among other things, this calls for a working knowledge of the basics of AI, ethics, and their interface. This guidebook seeks to provide this knowledge. In general, it aims to assist efforts toward building a community of responsible AI users. Thus, after providing an overview of AI and ethics and examining the primary ethical concerns related to AI, it offers some ethical guidelines on the use of this technology.