AI Can Make You Smarter

AI Can Make You Smarter stands out for its practical focus and lasting value. It explains a wide range of real-world techniques while helping you build enduring skills in clear thinking, effective communication, and productive collaboration. Proficiency in these essential skills is the surest way to stay valuable as AI reshapes the workplace. Work is changing fast, and efficiency alone is no longer enough. This book goes beyond productivity to show how AI can help you make better decisions, adapt to change, and build stronger professional relationships. You'll learn to guide ChatGPT—and similar tools such as Gemini, Copilot, and Claude—with precise prompts, evaluate accuracy, and recognize bias and hallucinations, all without jargon or hype. Through tested examples and easy-to-follow methods, you'll see how AI can help you brainstorm, analyze, and communicate ideas with clarity. You'll also learn to use it for serious writing—reports, proposals, and other high-value documents, where quality and credibility matter most. AI Can Make You Smarter equips you to use AI confidently: to save time, deepen understanding, and grow your professional expertise. It's a resource you'll return to again and again.

Charles Kreitzberg brings together the perspectives of psychologist, musician, technologist, and UX designer. His fascination with computers began in the 1960s, when a chance encounter with early computing revealed how technology could sharpen human thinking, an insight that shaped a six-decade career spanning programming, product design, cognitive psychology, and user experience. In 1982, he founded Cognetics Interactive, an award-winning UX design and consulting firm. In 2015, he joined Princeton University as Senior UX Advisor. Throughout his career, Charlie has blended humanistic values with technical depth, helping people use digital tools to think more clearly, work more effectively, and adapt with confidence in a changing world.