Rage Against the AI Machine™
The machine does not know you exist.
It does not know your students. It does not know your mission, your community, or the name of the child whose file it just summarized. It knows patterns — and it will produce a confident, fluent, well-formatted answer about a human being it has never met.
Somebody still has to sign that answer. This is a book about who.
This is not a book about stopping AI.
It is a book about who stays in charge of it.
Most writing about artificial intelligence is produced by people who have never been accountable to anyone. They have never sat in a public meeting while a parent demanded to know why a system made a decision about their child. They have never had to explain an algorithm to a school board at nine o’clock at night with a reporter in the third row.
I have. For thirty years I led a public institution, and every technology decision I made was eventually litigated in a room full of people who did not care how sophisticated the tool was — they cared whether I could answer for it.
Rage Against the AI Machine™ is written for the people who will be standing in that room. Superintendents. Board members. Executives. Directors. The ones who will be asked to sign their name to something a machine produced.
It makes a single argument, and it makes it without apology: artificial intelligence is the most powerful instrument leadership has ever been handed, and an instrument does not get to decide what song is played.
The case for Human-Directed AI™. People lead. Technology serves. Leadership decides.
Fourteen chapters. One argument.
Final chapter titles may be refined during publication.
The people who have to sign it.
- Superintendents and school executives adopting AI faster than their policy can keep up
- Board members and trustees now responsible for overseeing systems they were never trained to oversee
- Executives and directors in businesses, nonprofits, and public agencies facing the same question in a different room
- Anyone who has been told that resisting AI makes them a dinosaur — and suspects the truth is more complicated than that
Who it isn’t for
- Readers looking for a tools roundup. There are no prompts in this book.
- Readers looking for permission to reject AI entirely. That argument is not made here, because it is not true.
- Anyone who wants to be told the technology will sort itself out. It will not. That is the entire point.
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