Book cover of Orchestration and Command in the Age of AI by R T Scanlon, showing a figure viewed from behind raising a baton toward a network of glowing connected points, in the style of an orchestra conductor.

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Orchestration and Commandin the Age of AI

Working with the Tool That Talks

R T Scanlon

AI can now research, write, analyse, create and work through connected tools. But who establishes the purpose, judges the results and remains responsible? Orchestration and Command in the Age of AI examines how people can work with AI, tools and other resources while retaining human judgement and command.

About the book

About the book

More than better prompts

This book takes a wider view than learning how to write better prompts or operate the latest AI tools. It is about working out what you want to achieve, deciding what AI should and should not do, and bringing together the people, information, tools and other resources needed to get there.

Orchestration

Bringing together AI, people, information, tools and other resources, and directing them towards a purpose. Orchestration is the coordinating work that turns capable technology into useful outcomes.

Command

Retaining judgement, setting boundaries, evaluating what comes back, keeping oversight, and holding responsibility. Command is what stops delegation to AI becoming abdication.

The book begins with the individual AI user and extends all the way to managers and leaders responsible for AI capability across a company. It considers how AI-assisted work should be allocated, evaluated and verified, when human judgement matters, and how increasingly capable AI can be used without surrendering meaningful command.

Central message

AI is becoming easier to use.
Using it intelligently is another matter.

AI can assist with the work. The human must remain capable of judging and directing it.

Subjects considered

The programme

  1. Purpose, context and prompting
  2. Exploration and task execution
  3. Choosing what AI should and should not do
  4. AI agents, delegation and permissions
  5. Evaluation, verification and human oversight
  6. Learning, judgement and capability development
  7. Management, strategy, orchestration and command

Who the book is for

Readers with responsibility for AI-assisted work

Individual AI users who want to work more intelligently

Managers and leaders introducing AI into organisations

Educators considering learning, assessment and assisted performance

Professionals who must evaluate or remain responsible for AI-assisted work

The back cover

AI is becoming easier to use.
Using it intelligently is another matter.

Orchestration and Command in the Age of AI takes a wider view than learning how to write better prompts or operate the latest AI tools. It is about working out what you want to achieve, deciding what AI should and should not do, and bringing together the people, information, tools and other resources needed to get there.

The book begins with the individual AI user and extends all the way to managers and leaders responsible for AI capability across a company. It considers how AI-assisted work should be allocated, evaluated and verified, when human judgement matters and how increasingly capable AI can be used without surrendering meaningful command.

This is not primarily a book about mastering AI as a tool. It is about learning to command the capabilities and resources AI makes available.

Back cover of Orchestration and Command in the Age of AI, carrying the text: AI is becoming easier to use, using it intelligently is another matter, together with a summary of the book's themes.

About the author

R T Scanlon

R T Scanlon is an author with experience in education, management and the practical use of AI. His writing draws on that combined background to look at how AI is actually put to work, by individuals and by the organisations responsible for them.

He is also the author of Road Navigation: The Principles Explained.

Visit road-navigation.com (opens the author's other site)

Publication information

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