How to AI

How to AI is Christopher Mims’ practical AI book discussed in Making the most of AI, without the hype. The episode describes it as a guide to cutting through hype, mastering AI basics, and using AI to transform work without treating the tool as a replacement for human expertise.

The book’s first law, as presented in the episode, is that AI is an assistant, not a replacement. That makes the book a bridge between AI Assistant Augmentation, Expertise-Amplified AI Use, Mundane AI Use Cases, and Human Judgment Under AI.

Connections

• Christopher Mims - author.
• Marketplace Tech - show context for the interview.
• AI Assistant Augmentation, AI Hallucination, and Ambient AI Interface - central ideas drawn from the episode.
• Deep Research, NotebookLM, Flow, and Google Personal Intelligence - examples used to make the book’s advice concrete.