November 2025
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
5h 54m
English
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Introduction: The Human Imperative in the Age of AI
“Technology alone is not enough. It’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our hearts sing.”
—Steve Jobs
One hundred and eighty million dollars. Eighteen months of development. Twelve percent adoption. This is the arithmetic of artificial intelligence (AI) transformation failure—and it's happening right now in boardrooms across North America.
At one of North America's largest financial services companies, the technology worked flawlessly. The models were accurate. The infrastructure was robust. Yet middle managers were reverting to Excel spreadsheets. Teams were creating manual workarounds. The most sophisticated AI recommendation engine in their industry was being systematically ignored by the very people it was designed to help.
This isn't an isolated incident. It's a pattern I've observed across every industry, in every geography, at every scale. The pattern has a name: the Alignment Gap.
The Trillion-Dollar Misalignment
Global enterprises are investing at unprecedented levels in artificial intelligence initiatives. Industry analysis suggests annual AI spending exceeds $200 billion globally, with projections reaching more than $600 billion by 2028.[1] Yet for all this investment, organizations are facing what industry observers estimate to be trillions in unrealized value from AI transformations that fail to achieve their intended impact. (See Figure ...
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