A prompt manual
Prompts age faster than the people selling them as final answers.
The point
It is not the machine. It is the work that changes while the machine enters it.
AI does not enter organisations like an appliance. It enters cognitive processes: judgement, the distribution of expertise, working groups, the ways decisions are made and accounted for.
Complexity & Systems of Meaning begins with that friction. It does not try to teach people how to use a chatbot until the next release. It tries to name the problems too easily dismissed under the word “adoption”.
It is not
A catalogue of use cases
A use case is not a transformation, even when it comes with many slides.
An anti-AI liturgy
Delegation is possible. The question is what is delegated, and what remains.
Five nodes
A grammar for not calling everything “adoption”.
A(I)doption
A framework for reading AI adoption as a change in practices, expertise, roles and systems of meaning.
Cognitive drift
When a plausible answer replaces an argument that the person can still verify.
Qualified cognitive surrender
Delegating without abdicating: making conditions and limits visible, and retaining the ability to take judgement back.
Synthetic colleague
A new agency in collective work, neither oracle nor intern to be squeezed.
Homo A(I)daptans
A provisional anthropological definition for those who work and think in systems that are now hybrid.
Available editions
Digital companion
The book does not end at the page.
The logical map connects the four parts and twelve chapters. The infographics are available full-screen because, in the first print edition, they were simply too small to deserve staying that way.
Editorial record