AI for Smart Humans

By Martin Poliačik

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Artificial Intelligence is already changing how we think, make decisions and assess the world around us.

AI for Smart Humans is a practical guide to suing its power without losing yourself. Martin Poliačik calls this partnership hybrid intelligence: combining your own perspective with the growing capabilities of machines. Its essential skill is collaborative fluency: knowing when to invite AI in, how to challenge its answers and when to exercise your own mind. Drawing on ancient thinkers, modern science an three decades of teaching, he offers tools for asking better questions, making sounder judgements and creating work that remains unmistakably yours.

Martin Poliačik is a Slovak author and educator specialising in comunciation and critical thinking. His work connects philosophy and cognitive science with the practical decisions people face in business an public life. He served for ten years in the Slovak parliament and four years in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, co-founded four companies and organised ReThink, a conference on human-centred AI. He advocated for safer AI that leaves people able to shape their own futures.

"The 'thinking about thinking' man's guide to living advantageously with AI, using critical thinking to harness its power rather than being displaced by it." - Sir Richard Dearlove, former Chief of MI6, co-host of the One Decision podcast

"In AI For Smart Humans, Martin Poliačik makes a compelling case that critical thinking and communication are becoming essential skills in a world increasingly shaped by AI."  - Anne-Laure Le Cunff, neuroscientist and author of Tiny Experiments

"Brilliant and provocative read." - Steve Clemons, Editor at Large, The National Interest