Strategy and AI: A Guide for Living During the Third Remake of Humankind will be released on November 10 and is available now on Amazon and Barnes & Noble
If you had to bet capital, careers, and customers on where AI creates value, how would you answer?
A graduate student named Alex Krizhevsky trained an artificial neural network on two gaming graphics cards from Best Buy in his bedroom at his parents’ house in 2012 to beat the world’s best-funded labs at image recognition. The win proved AI could learn on its own which image features mattered and how to weigh them, producing human-like results without humans explicitly programming the instructions. AI experts can’t fully explain how AI generates these results. Software stopped being something humans wrote line by line and started being something that wrote itself.
Strategy and AI is the executive’s guide to leading in the world this 2012 breakthrough created. It draws on Tim Kilpatrick’s four decades at the intersection of complex systems and digital transformation, from testing a nuclear submarine combat system to hospital care’s transitions from paper to digital to AI-driven decisions. Strategy and AI distills his insights into sixteen AI frameworks built to guide strategic thinking and to answer the questions that keep non-technical leaders up at night:
- Where will AI create durable value, and where is it just an expensive demo?
- Who is really driving this revolution, and what do they want?
- How do you tell what AI can and can’t do when the vendor in the room won’t?
- How do you turn a working pilot into something that runs at scale?
- What does AI need from your data, your people, and your governance before it’s worth the bet?
This is not a book for engineers. It’s for the people who must bet capital, careers, and customers on what AI becomes next.
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