September 2025 Book Recommendation

It’s back to school for many people so I thought I’d start a new monthly post ( on the fourth Tuesday) focused on books I’ve enjoyed.

The book for this month is Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick (public library link)

Since 2022, we haven’t been able to reliably trust what we see or hear (okay, okay I know we’ve always had to be skeptical of this. Even Edgar Allan Poe said, “Believe nothing you hear, and only half that you see,” and according to an article in Fast Company “Why Google’s new Nano Banana means you can never trust a photo you see online again,” even an 1860 photo of US president Abraham Lincoln was a composite of Lincoln’s head on someone else’s body) but now more than ever before it doesn’t take talent or skill to come up with convincing images, text and audio.

Which makes our present both wonderful and terrifying.

However, whether you think of AI as merely statistical pattern matching or akin to magic; whether you’re 18 or 80-plus, author Ethan Mollick’s book can help you understand and grow comfortable with a technology that has been improving over decades*.

Information is power and Co-intelligence gives you the insight you’ll need to make informed decisions so you can face rapid changes with optimism (minus the hype) instead of fear.

Not ready to buy? Find it through a public library here

(*and, hopefully, you’ll learn what ethical AI usage looks like. Hint: it doesn’t involve laziness)