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BOOK description
Artificial intelligence is changing how we work, learn, create, and solve problems. You do not need to become a programmer to benefit. You simply need to know how to ask, evaluate, verify, and decide.
Get on Board with AI is a practical, plain-English guide to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and the AI skills that will remain useful even after today’s apps and interfaces change.
Most AI guides teach you where to click. This book teaches you how to think and work with AI: how to get useful results, recognize unreliable answers, protect sensitive information, and use AI itself to master new tools as they appear.
Inside, you will discover how to:
- Put AI to work with 50 practical, real-world applications
• Write stronger instructions using the CLEAR Prompt Method
• Detect hallucinations and questionable claims with the TRUST Verification Method
• Teach yourself unfamiliar AI tools using the LEARN Method
• Use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and other leading platforms effectively
• Work with documents, spreadsheets, images, research, and data
• Protect your privacy, confidential information, judgment, and independence
• Complete guided projects and build repeatable AI workflows
• Follow a practical 30-day plan for developing lasting AI skills
Real-world case studies show AI being used in business, engineering, construction, research, document analysis, and legal work. In the book’s highest-stakes example, the author explains how ChatGPT and Claude helped him understand a complicated property lawsuit, prepare court documents, represent himself, and protect an investment with approximately $250,000 at risk.
The author brings both technical grounding and practical experience to the subject. George T. Edwards earned a master’s degree in computer science with an emphasis in artificial intelligence long before AI entered everyday conversation. His perspective is optimistic but realistic: AI can be an extraordinary assistant, provided that an informed human remains in charge.
This is more than a collection of prompts or a catalog of buttons destined to become obsolete. It is a durable system for making AI useful, checking its work, and keeping up as the technology evolves.
Whether you are curious about AI, worried that you are falling behind, or ready to put these tools to serious work, this book will help you begin with confidence.
Get on board—and make AI work for you.
Who Should Read This Book?
This book is for anyone who wants to use artificial intelligence confidently without becoming a programmer. It is especially useful for professionals, business owners, employees, students, educators, retirees, and curious beginners who want practical results rather than technical lectures.
Whether you have never opened ChatGPT, have experimented with AI but remain unsure how to use it effectively, or already use these tools and want more dependable results, this book will help you move forward. You will learn how to communicate with AI, verify its answers, protect your information, and keep learning as the technology changes.
If you are curious about AI, concerned about falling behind, or ready to make these tools genuinely useful in your work and everyday life, this book was written for you.
Table of Contents
A Personal Note: AI and I
Introduction: Welcome Aboard
PART I: Put AI to Work Immediately
Chapter 1: AI Is Already Here ⚡
Chapter 2: Fifty Practical AI Tasks to Try Today ⚡
Chapter 3: Your First Hour With ChatGPT ⚡
Chapter 4: How to Have a Productive AI Conversation ⚡
PART II: Understand AI Without the Jargon
Chapter 5: AI Did Not Happen Overnight
Chapter 6: How Modern AI Is Trained
Chapter 7: What AI Knows, What It Can Do, and What It Cannot Do ⚡
Chapter 8: When AI Goes Wrong ⚡
Chapter 9: The TRUST Verification Method ⚡
PART III: Master AI Communication and Tools
Chapter 10: Prompt Engineering and the CLEAR Method ⚡
Chapter 11: Better Conversations and Better Results ⚡
Chapter 12: ChatGPT From Beginner to Advanced User
Chapter 13: Claude From Beginner to Advanced User
Chapter 14: Gemini From Beginner to Advanced User
Chapter 15: Microsoft Copilot From Beginner to Advanced User
Chapter 16: The Expanding AI Toolbox and How to Choose
Chapter 17: Use AI to Learn Any AI Tool ⚡
PART IV: AI in Life, Learning, and Work
Chapter 18: AI in Everyday Life and Creativity
Chapter 19: AI as a Tutor: Learning Without Cheating
Chapter 20: AI for Business and Professionals
PART V: Build Practical AI Skills
Chapter 21: Working With Documents, Spreadsheets, Images, and Data
Chapter 22: Eight Guided AI Projects
Chapter 23: Repeatable Workflows, Automations, and Agents
Chapter 24: Defending a Six-Figure Property Interest With AI
PART VI: Protect Your Information and Judgment
Chapter 25: Privacy, Confidentiality, and Your Personal AI Policy ⚡
PART VII: Build Your AI Future
Chapter 26: AI and the Future of Work
Chapter 27: Build Your Personal AI System
Chapter 28: The 30-Day AI Learning Plan ⚡
Conclusion: Stay Curious, Skeptical, and Human ⚡
BONUS CONTENT
Bonus Chapter A: AI Scams, Copyright, and Responsible Use
Bonus Chapter B: AI for Government and Public Service
Bonus Chapter C: Local AI, Open-Source Models, and Private Systems
Bonus Resource Library
Glossary
References and Endnotes
Index