Teaching AI to Adults

Nobody in the room chose to be there.

They were sent. A manager put it on the calendar, a law required it, a new tool arrived. Twenty adults, arms folded, carrying fear, a bad experience, a mandate, boredom, and one secret expert who has been using the tools every night for a year. That is the room. This is the book about running it.

Written by a trainer with more than twenty years at the front of rooms full of people who did not want to be there, Teaching AI to Adults is not a book about AI. It is a book about the forty people in front of you, what they carry in, why a session they liked can change nothing, and how to run one that changes what they do at their desk on Wednesday.

• The three jobs a trainer has, in order: safe, real, stick
• How much you need to know (less than you think)
• The sequence that works, and why the textbook order fails
• Fifteen exercises with the trap in each
• The fearful, the cynical and the enthusiast
• Running it live online, cameras on, no slides
• The supervisors' session and how to run it for two thousand people
• Measuring what changed, and the ten minutes in the board room
• Train the trainer, certify and license

No statistics that go stale. No product names. Six templates.

Awareness is not behavior. Safe first. Then real. Then stick.