For me, the temptation to write a book about AI is very low. Why? I believe that to write an authentic essay or book on whatever aspect of AI, you need to truly have expertise. That is why I would rather focus on fiction and the ideas and stories in my own brain. The market is flooded with new authors promoting their take on AI. Whether a ghost writer, or AI wrote it for them, what matters most is authenticity. Authenticity leads to trust and AI needs a lot of trust these days. So, I have compiled The Most Authentic AI Books: Top 9 Authors Including LinkedIn Top Voices to help guide you through the menagerie.

America, as an idea, is vanishing before our eyes. The pillars of democracy erode, and the so-called bastions of free speech crumble under the weight of corporate interests, leaving independent media as the last true voice of the people. While mainstream media exists in a self-sustaining bubble, insulated from the streets, the streets themselves are waking up.

Eight months in, Brian Lesser isn’t just sweeping the floors at GroupM-he’s bulldozing the building. The world’s biggest media buyer is now a cautionary tale, as 45% of its North American workforce gets “reorganized” (read: laid off, reassigned, or simply vanished), and the once-mighty GroupM brand is quietly euthanized in favor of the corporate moniker “WPP Media”. If you thought this was a rebrand, think again. This is a root-and-branch rewrite of the agency playbook.

Lights, Camera, Algorithm: The New Power Player in Tinseltown. Hollywood doesn’t have a choice anymore. AI has arrived—on set, in the writers’ room, inside the edit bay, behind the camera, and in the boardroom. Whether you see it as the villain in a dystopian reboot or the unsung hero behind the curtain, artificial intelligence is already reshaping the entertainment landscape. And no, it’s not just about ChatGPT generating fan fiction or some basement nerd feeding prompts into Midjourney for a fake movie poster.

Let’s get one thing straight: “Creative Director” has become the "middle management" of the creative world. A safe title. A warm, squishy buffer between strategy decks and execution timelines.

I recently spoke at the PRSANM focusing on AI and PR. These are some of my thoughts. Welcome to the intersection of AI and PR—where press releases get written faster than your intern can microwave their burrito, and brand crises are predicted before your CEO hits "Tweet."

I've been in the game long enough to remember the typewriter (and how good kerning mattered). Now, I'm juggling generative tools, automated dashboards, and an army of AI agents… all without losing that critical human touch. So let's break it down:

Hayao Miyazaki's scathing take on AI resurfaces amid ChatGPT's Ghibli craze. I have thought a lot about this and have been asked by many of my friends how I felt about this. But, let’s back up a few years. I was first introduced to the mastery of Miyazaki when, in the late 90’s, I was charged with helping launch the Animax channel with Sony, bringing Anime to America.

Since its launch, DeepSeek has sent shockwaves through China’s AI scene. It’s forcing major players to rethink their strategies, governments to adopt new AI policies, and investors to recalibrate where they put their money. The Chinese AI landscape, which has long been dominated by companies like ByteDance and the so-called AI ‘Four Little Dragons’ and ‘Six Tigers,’ is now facing a serious disruption.

AI and music—two forces that, at first glance, seem like opposites. One, the ultimate expression of human creativity and emotion; the other, a product of cold, calculated algorithms. But as technology continues to evolve, these two worlds are colliding in ways that are both thrilling and disruptive. The question isn’t whether AI belongs in music—it’s already here. Instead, we should be asking: How do we use AI to amplify human creativity rather than replace it?

Over the past year, AI has significantly influenced various aspects of filmmaking, from scriptwriting and voice modulation to visual effects and even the creation of entirely AI-generated films.​ The Oscars just validated this.

Oh, Alexa. You had your shot at being the queen of AI assistants, but instead, you settled for being a glorified kitchen timer that occasionally misunderstood our grocery lists. And now, after years of playing second fiddle to ChatGPT and Google Gemini, Amazon is slapping a “+” on you and calling it innovation.

We’re not just users—we’re the slaves, and worse, we’re paying for the privilege. Some of us fork over $200 a month to feed the machine, willingly handing over our blogs, papers, PhD dissertations, articles, novels, photos, music, and more. We don’t just let OpenAI consume—it gorges on our creativity, our intelligence, our labor. And we call it “progress.”

Ah, AI regulation—the policy battlefield where world leaders argue over who gets to set the rules and who gets to break them. The AI Action Summit in Paris was supposed to be a step toward a unified approach to AI governance. Instead, it exposed a growing global divide.

Listen up, folks. The world is on fire, and it’s not just from climate change or the never-ending political dumpster fire. AI is marching forward like a relentless Terminator without the cool one-liners, and America is slipping into something that looks eerily familiar if you’ve ever spent time watching classic films instead of doomscrolling. So let’s take a serious look at five films that are screaming at us to pay attention.

Sign post up ahead! We need to have a serious discussion about the current state of AI—how it’s being used, who it’s really benefiting, and where the hell it’s headed. As an AI optimist, it’s hard not to feel a bit freaked out right now. We were promised a utopia, but we’re veering dangerously close to an AI dystopia instead. And I can’t help but notice that many of the same players who shaped the tech-industrial complex around social media are now steering the ship for AI.

Ah, the AI Wars—a thrilling saga of tech dominance, geopolitical chess, and, of course, a spectacular PR stunt that may or may not have been entirely true. Enter DeepSeek, the Chinese AI darling that burst onto the scene last week and, if the timing wasn’t suspicious enough, just so happened to send U.S. tech stocks into a freefall. Coincidence? That’s cute.

I recently saw the Academy Award nominated film The Brutalist, in the theatre, complete with an intermission. I was mesmerized and celebrated the glory of film and the art spirit. Being a designer, I truly appreciated the opening and closing titles, which challenged every notion of convention. A theme celebrated by the Bauhaus and Brutalism.

I do not mean the kind inspired by the music of the late 70’s and 80’s. Though I grew up with it and loved it. What is facing the world is not a choice in punk bands. It is a band of a different sort. A Bandwagon. I am talking about what future you believe in and what bandwagon are you going to hop on.

Storytelling is as old as humanity itself. It’s how we make sense of the world, connect with others, and preserve our collective memory. Over the millennia, storytelling has evolved alongside human innovation, reflecting cultural shifts and technological advancements.

Science fiction has long been a prophetic mirror for our aspirations and anxieties about artificial intelligence. Iconic works like Blade Runner, Westworld, and Ex Machina have shaped our collective imagination about what AI could become—sentient, autonomous, murderous and deeply human-like. (Sorry Terminator) Yet, as these narratives unfold in their fictional universes, they also highlight the vast chasm between today’s AI technologies and the visionary possibilities they portray.