Rage Against the AI Machine™
The Human-Directed AI™ Edition
How Generative AI and Quantum Computing Are Transforming Our World—and How to Turn Rage into Action to Keep Humanity in Control.
Generative AI is reshaping tasks, careers, and institutions. Quantum computing introduces another frontier. This book examines the disruption, the human response, and the choices leaders and organizations must make to preserve agency and accountability.
Across four parts, Dr. Adams moves from understanding the changes to building human capabilities, redesigning organizations, and taking practical action through a 90-day personal pivot.
This is not a book about stopping AI.
It is a book about who stays in charge of it.
This book brings a former superintendent’s perspective to AI adoption: public accountability, organizational change, and the responsibility leaders retain when technology informs a decision.
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.
Fifteen chapters. Human direction throughout.
Chapter titles reflect the current manuscript and may be refined during final proofreading.
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.
In final proofreading.
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You don’t have to wait for the book to start.
The argument in these pages is the same one behind every engagement in this practice. If the question is already in front of you, the assessment takes six minutes and costs nothing.
This is the same argument behind Human-Directed AI™ governance and the keynote built from this book.