Sustaining Human Intelligence: Keeping People Smart, Connected, and Innovative in an AI-Driven Workforce

AI does not just change how work gets done. It changes how people think while doing it.

Sustaining Human Intelligence makes the case that AI-enabled automation reshapes cognition itself: how professionals learn, reason, frame problems, and collaborate. The result is not always visible in the short term. It shows up later, when judgment has atrophied, expertise has stalled, and the humans inside an organization can no longer function without the systems they built to help them.

This book is for designers, analysts, product managers, and anyone implementing AI tools who wants to understand what those tools are actually doing to the people who use them, and what to do about it.

Each chapter traces a specific cognitive risk from individual to team to organization, and closes with practical design interventions across interface, workflow, and culture.

The future of work will be determined less by the power of our machines than by the strength of the minds that use them.