You Are AI’s Best Friend: From Olives to Algorithms: A Human Guide

On November 30, 2022, ChatGPT launched, the world changed, and most people missed it.

AI can write, reason, create, and reshape how we work — and everyone faces the same question: what now?

The answer came from an olive oil mill in Sicily, where Philip Fischer watched generations of farmers welcome automation while remaining the experts. Technology as tool, never master.

While the world split into fear, hype, and dismissal, You Are AI's Best Friend builds a fourth path: thriving anyway.

Drawing on Fischer's career spanning chemical engineering, law, and three decades on Wall Street — and on interviews his wife Linda conducted worldwide — this book offers real people, real answers, and no panic.

Let AI work for you, never the reverse. Tend what matters. The harvest follows.

You Are AI's Best Friend is perfect for readers of Co-Intelligence, The Coming Wave, and Life 3.0 — and for anyone who wants to live and work well in the age of AI.

<p><b>Philip Fischer</b> (BS ChE, Oregon State University; JD, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles; MBA and PhD, University of Oregon) brings an interdisciplinary perspective to AI: chemical engineering, finance, law, and technology adoption. Through his firm, eBooleant Consulting LLC, he advises on AI, FinTech, and risk management.</p>
<p>Fischer's interest in AI dates to 2003. Two science fiction novels, <i>Julia and the Dream Maker</i> and <i>Green Eyes in the Amazon</i>, explore quantum computing, AI consciousness, and human-AI relationships. He was formerly a Managing Director, Head of Municipal Bond Research and Indices, and Fixed Income Strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. In 2013, McGraw-Hill published his <i>Investing in Municipal Bonds: How to Balance Risk and Reward for Success in Today's Bond Market</i>, later used to teach fixed income at a major Wall Street bank. A Chinese edition followed. He lives and works in New York City.</p>