The Human Advantage
What AI Can't Do Without You

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Jeremy Utley has written a book that anxious professionals need right now. The Human Advantage shows how to use AI not as a replacement for thinking, but as a force multiplier for our own judgment, taste, and creativity. Read this book to become more confident about the future and beitr equipped to shape it. - Daniel Pink, New York Times best-selling author of Drive and When

If you want a deeper understanding of the essential role humans play in the AI loop, read this book. Jeremy has become one of the most thoughtful practitioners of this trans formative technology that I know. When he writes, ''AI still can't read the room or tell you why something matters," he reminds us that the uniquely human capacity for judgment, context, and meaning remains indispensable. The genie is out of the bottle, and it's granting wishes to the humans who know how to ask the really important questions. If you want to be one of the winners in the AI revolution, this book will be your guide. - Bill Burnett, executive director, Stanford Life Design Lab; New York Times best­ selling co-author of Designing Your Life

Utley makes the important case that the experienced workers most convinced AI has passed them by are precisely the ones positioned to get the most out of it. Refreshingly, he doesn't sto at the argument: the book hands you a playbook and the exercises to work through it. If you are intimidated by using AI, this is a great place to start. - Ethan Mollick, co-director, Generative AI Labs at Wharton; New York Times best-selling author of Co-Intelligence and Co-Existence

If you learn how to use AI to give yourself a bionic brain, you'll be indispensable, not redundant. The real surprise of this book? The more experience you have, the bigger your advantage. Utley shows you how to stop treating AI like a search engine and start treating it like the thinking partner you always deserved-and why your judgment, not your technical skill, is the one thing AI can't do without. - Kim Scott, New York Times best-selling author of Radical Candor and Radical Respect

Most books about AI focus on the technology. The Human Advantage is about us. In a tim of profound change, Jeremy Utley shows how we can lead AI with purpose while deepening the relationships, perspective, and creativity that help us thrive. This is a generation-definin guide to becoming more capable with AI, and more human in the process. - Brice Challamel, Head of AI Strategy and Adoption, OpenAI

When AI can generate endless output, the hard part isn't producing more-it's knowing what deserves our attention and what doesn't. Drawing on his years teaching at the Stanfori d.school, Utley argues that curiosity, taste, and judgment are the capacities that matter most now. Most important? They can be learned. This book shows you how. - Amy Edmondson, professor, Harvard Business School; author of The Right Kind of Wrong

In an era of AI doomerism, The Human Advantage is the practical and optimistic guide needed to help humans experience the best AI has to offer. With real research and practical stories, Utley guides the reader to embrace the unique human traits that allow humans and Ais to collaborate and reach new creative and productive heights. A book perfect for the curious mind wanting to take their AI use to the next level. - Wade Foster, co-founder and CEO, Zapier

Jeremy taught me that the value of AI isn't in someone else's idea. It's in discovering your own. This book will help you see opportunities for AI you haven't even considered. - Manu Ginobili, NBA Hall of Farner and four-time NBA champion

Just wow. The Human Advantage will fill you with can-do optimism and then teach you how to master AI one QR code at a time. A must-read, must-have book that you'll refer to again and again. - Bing Gordon, former CCO, Electronic Arts; author of Everybody Wins

According to Jeremy Utley we all should be using our AI assistants for everything, so of course I had mine read The Human Advantage and write a blurb: 'Jeremy Utley makes a rigorous, research-backed case that in the age of AI, your judgment, experience, and taste aren't liabilities to overcome-they're the whole advantage. The Human Advantage is a sharp, practical guide to becoming irreplaceable by becoming more fully yourself.' We agree. - Kevin Kelly, co-founder, WIRED; author of The Inevitable

Jeremy is a masterful teacher and an AI ninja. If you really want to know how to take advantage of AI in your personal and business life (and not look like a rookie), this is the book to read. It's rare to find a book that is both fun to read and useful-and this is one of those. - Charles O'Reilly, professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business

The Human Advantage is a different kind of AI guide. Utley shows you how to leverage your human strengths-judgment, wisdom, curiosity, emotional intelligence, and the ability to read a room-to harness the power of AI as collaborator and coach. You'll learn how to manage AI as you would a gifted employee. The better you manage, the better the output! - Will Lansing, CEO, FICO

Incredibly insightful! Whether you work in sports or any other industry, Jeremy Utley offers practical advice for turning AI into a competitive advantage. - Larry Freedman, co-president, Los Angeles Football Club

The Human Advantage expertly combines a sense of urgency with a practical road map for all workers showing how they can understand, absorb, execute, and prosper in this new AI era. - Harry Rhoads, Jr., co-founder, Washington Speakers Bureau

Everyone else is teaching you to use AI. Jeremy teaches you to work with it, which turns out to be the whole game. Generous, practical, and genuinely human, from the sharpest thinker I know on this subject. - Henrik Werdelin, co-founder, Audos and BARK; co-author of Me, My Customer & AI