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Winner
The Chat GPT Revolution
Donna McGeorge
The ChatGPT Revolution helps others by making AI practical, accessible, and genuinely useful in everyday work and life. Whether you’re just curious or already experimenting, the book shows you how to use AI to make life easier without getting lost in tech speak. From writing and admin to strategy, planning, and problem-solving, this book provides clear, human-friendly ways to use ChatGPT to save time, reduce friction, and overcome overwhelm.
By learning how to ask smarter questions and guide AI more effectively, readers get better results faster, with less effort. Rather than replacing human thinking, The ChatGPT Revolution supports it, helping people work smarter, boost creativity, and free up energy for what matters most.
Winner
Your Third Brain: Powering a Future of Unimagined Possibilities
Jack Myers
My book, Your Third Brain, offers people something enduring: the ability to imagine what might be possible by collaborating with a powerful new partner to expand their choices and capabilities. I look back across fifty years of technological upheaval and forward toward my grandchildren and the GenNexus generation, who will never remember life before AI. By introducing the third brain into their lives, leaders, educators, parents, professionals, and people entering their careers learn to navigate accelerating technology. I offer a practical way to develop co-intelligence and technointuition without confusing AI fluency with wisdom, speed with discernment, or machine communication with genuine relationships. I ask and answer a simple question: What is AI doing TO us? My mission is to help humanity become more human as machines become more intelligent, recognizing that our true competitive advantages will be judgment, empathy, trust, creativity, courage, and accountability.
Winner
The Coming Disruption: How AI First Will Force Organizations to Change Everything or Face Destruction
Fred Voccola
Forget the hype – the AI revolution is here. From small businesses to Fortune 500s, from universities to governments, every organization is being reshaped by AI. The winners and losers of this new era will be defined by one thing: who wins the race to become AI First. In this groundbreaking book, Fred Voccola reveals exactly what your organization must do to thrive in the age of AI — because if you’re not AI First, you’ll be dead last.
Winner
What You Need to Know About AI: A Primer on Being Human in an Artificially Intelligent World
James Wang
What You Need to Know About AI gives people—both beginners and tech experts—the literacy to navigate the most consequential technology of our era without the fear and hype that dominate most AI coverage. In plain language, James Wang explains what AI actually is, what it can and can't do, and how to apply it in your work, career, and business.
The book's reach reflects its mission: it has been adopted by major public library systems including Boston, Los Angeles, Detroit, and Dallas; reached audiences from high school students weighing careers to retirees looking to start new businesses and passion projects; and Perspectives, a summit of Latin American CEOs and founders, purchased books for every attendee to help them put AI to work in their organizations. As Reid Hoffman said, James Wang’s book "is accessible to neophytes, but broad enough to offer useful insights even to AI professionals."
Finalist
Inferior God Complex: AI is not our savior-it's our new bureaucracy
Brian Phillip Christian
Inferior God Complex helps people understand how AI is already shaping everyday life—not through science-fiction spectacle, but through the ordinary systems that influence what we see, buy, believe, approve, reject, and automate. The book gives readers a practical way to recognize when convenience becomes governance, when algorithms reinforce old biases, and when responsibility disappears behind “the system.” Rather than telling readers to fear AI or blindly embrace it, the book helps them ask better questions: Who made this decision? What data shaped it? Who benefits? Who is accountable? By making complex technology understandable through history, myth, humor, and real-world examples, Inferior God Complex helps nontechnical readers participate in decisions that increasingly affect their work, communities, and lives—and reminds them that the future of AI is still a human responsibility.
Finalist
Automata: The Power of AI Integrated with Advanced Robotics
Ibrahim Gedeon
Kyle B. Murray
Automata examines how AI and advanced robotics are rapidly surpassing human abilities in fields once thought uniquely ours – from playing chess to discovering new antibiotics to fraud detection. As Automata – AI integrated with advanced robotics – become superior at more tasks, the question is no longer if machines will replace workers, but how we can stay relevant in a world shaped by intelligent automation. This book explores the profound transformation ahead, drawing on real-world trends and technologies already beginning to reshape our lives.
With most of these changes expected within the next decade or two, Automata offers timely use cases and practical strategies to help individuals and organizations navigate this new era. It highlights needed changes in education – such as the importance of learning-to-learn and emotional intelligence – to help society prepare for this new age.
Automata is a vital guide for anyone seeking to thrive – rather than just survive – as human work, s
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The AI Revolution: Transform Every Business
Rakesh Rajagopal
Ronak Rakesh
In an era where artificial intelligence threatens to render traditional businesses obsolete, this practical guide offers a lifeline to small and medium enterprise owners overwhelmed by technological change. Through the interconnected journeys of four business owners—a manufacturer, restaurateur, lawyer, and retailer—readers discover proven frameworks for AI transformation without sacrificing their company's soul or their employees' livelihoods.
Rather than theoretical concepts or technical jargon, this book provides battle-tested strategies for assessing AI readiness, selecting appropriate technologies, managing implementation risks, and measuring genuine ROI. Each protagonist's story yields an industry-specific playbook, while their collective experience creates a universal framework applicable across all sectors. Most importantly, this guide demonstrates that successful AI adoption isn't about becoming a tech company—it's about strategically augmenting human
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Future Flight: How Talent, Capital and Manufacturing will Shape the Next Era of Uncrewed Aviation
Sharon Rossmark
Future Flight helps people prepare for an industry that is already reshaping how we farm, inspect infrastructure, deliver goods, and respond to emergencies. Drone technology is no longer the bottleneck; people, investment, and manufacturing are. The book shows students and career changers where the new jobs are forming, from remote operations and drone fleet maintenance to systems integration, and what skills employers need. It gives educators a clear case for building programs that keep pace with employer demand. It helps policymakers, investors, and community leaders see the workforce, supply chain, and manufacturing gaps that decide whether this industry creates good jobs in the United States. Drawing on more than a decade of work with operators, educators, investors, and policymakers, Sharon Rossmark turns a complex, fast-moving field into a practical guide for the decisions being made now, so that more people, in more communities, share in what comes next.

