The Journey
to AuI.

I didn't set out to write a book about artificial intelligence. I set out to understand why brilliant people kept telling me they felt left behind by it.

Over three decades in IT consulting — across enterprise systems, cyber compliance, and digital transformation projects spanning multiple industries and countries — I had a front-row seat to how technology actually changes human behaviour. Not in the clean, linear way that product launches suggest. In the messy, uneven, often inequitable way that real deployment looks.

I watched organisations adopt powerful technologies that their own employees didn't understand and couldn't question. I watched entire communities — their languages, their values, their ways of knowing — get left out of the data that trained the systems they were expected to trust.

AuI was born from a specific frustration: the AI literacy conversation was happening almost entirely inside a bubble. Technical people talking to technical people. Western researchers addressing Western audiences. Books that assumed you were already comfortable with the vocabulary, the tools, and the worldview.

I wanted to write the book I would have given to every person who came to my training sessions asking, "Where do I even start?" — and more importantly, to every person who never came to those sessions because they didn't believe the conversation was meant for them.

This book is meant for them. It is meant for everyone.