- Home
- Business & Economics
- Decision-Making & Problem Solving
- When Machines Act (The Promise and Peril of Navigating Our Agentic AI Future)
When Machines Act (The Promise and Peril of Navigating Our Agentic AI Future)
List Price:
$34.95
| Expected release date is Apr 20th 2027 |
- Availability: Confirm prior to ordering
- Branding: minimum 50 pieces (add’l costs below)
- Check Freight Rates (branded products only)
Branding Options (v), Availability & Lead Times
- 1-Color Imprint: $2.00 ea.
- Promo-Page Insert: $2.50 ea. (full-color printed, single-sided page)
- Belly-Band Wrap: $2.50 ea. (full-color printed)
- Set-Up Charge: $45 per decoration
- Availability: Product availability changes daily, so please confirm your quantity is available prior to placing an order.
- Branded Products: allow 10 business days from proof approval for production. Branding options may be limited or unavailable based on product design or cover artwork.
- Unbranded Products: allow 3-5 business days for shipping. All Unbranded items receive FREE ground shipping in the US. Inquire for international shipping.
- RETURNS/CANCELLATIONS: All orders, branded or unbranded, are NON-CANCELLABLE and NON-RETURNABLE once a purchase order has been received.
Product Details
Author:
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, David Siegel, Stephen Henriques
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
232
Publisher:
MIT Press (April 20, 2027)
Imprint:
The MIT Press
Release Date:
April 20, 2027
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9780262065184
ISBN-10:
0262065185
Weight:
20oz
Dimensions:
6" x 9"
File:
RandomHouse-PRH_Book_Company_PRH_PRT_Onix_delta_active_D20260910T223703_157862066-20260910.xml
Folder:
RandomHouse
List Price:
$34.95
Country of Origin:
United States
Pub Discount:
65
Case Pack:
12
As low as:
$26.91
Publisher Identifier:
P-RH
Discount Code:
A
QuickShip:
Yes
Overview
Beyond the hype and above the panic: how autonomous AI reshapes work, competition, and power, and the judgments that decide where it leads.
The agentic AI conversation has hardened into two camps—the champions who promise frictionless transformation and the cynics who forecast societal collapse. But neither can help the person who actually has to make tangible decisions on any given day: the business leader who must choose where to deploy an autonomous agent; the investor who wants to separate signal from circular financing; the policymaker who writes rules that will shape a decade; or the rest of us living through a world in flux.
When Machines Act is the compass for the disciplined middle. In this book, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, David Siegel, and Stephen Henriques offer readers a clear account of the defining shift of the decade: the arrival of autonomous AI. These are systems that no longer merely answer questions but take actions, make decisions, and execute work across an entire organization or an individual’s daily life.
The book draws on decades of collective experience across the authors—as either world-renowned advisors to Fortune 500 CEOs, pioneering technologists of the computing age, or investors in major public and private enterprises. Informed by dozens of expert interviews with leaders in technology and off-the-record dialogues with more than 300 chief executives at the Yale CEO forums, it distills essential principles you can carry into a boardroom, a statehouse, or a kitchen-table conversation.
Written from inside the rooms where the choices are being made, When Machines Act is an engaging, clear-eyed, and enduring guide to our collective future.
The agentic AI conversation has hardened into two camps—the champions who promise frictionless transformation and the cynics who forecast societal collapse. But neither can help the person who actually has to make tangible decisions on any given day: the business leader who must choose where to deploy an autonomous agent; the investor who wants to separate signal from circular financing; the policymaker who writes rules that will shape a decade; or the rest of us living through a world in flux.
When Machines Act is the compass for the disciplined middle. In this book, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, David Siegel, and Stephen Henriques offer readers a clear account of the defining shift of the decade: the arrival of autonomous AI. These are systems that no longer merely answer questions but take actions, make decisions, and execute work across an entire organization or an individual’s daily life.
The book draws on decades of collective experience across the authors—as either world-renowned advisors to Fortune 500 CEOs, pioneering technologists of the computing age, or investors in major public and private enterprises. Informed by dozens of expert interviews with leaders in technology and off-the-record dialogues with more than 300 chief executives at the Yale CEO forums, it distills essential principles you can carry into a boardroom, a statehouse, or a kitchen-table conversation.
Written from inside the rooms where the choices are being made, When Machines Act is an engaging, clear-eyed, and enduring guide to our collective future.
