42 Things You Must Know About AI

AI is in your phone, your email, your job, your doctor's office, and quite possibly your toaster. It writes code, generates video, passes bar exams, and argues with your mother about seating charts. It's a trillion-dollar industry that showed up faster than anyone expected, and most people still don't understand how it actually works.

This book fixes that. In 42 concise, plainspoken chapters, Kim Aronson breaks down everything you need to know about artificial intelligence in 2026: what it is, how it got here, who's building it, where it's headed, and what it means for your career, your privacy, and your daily life. From the GPU empire of Jensen Huang to the AI arms race between OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta, from deepfake scandals to AI-written homework, from billion-dollar startup valuations to the real impact on jobs, this book covers the full picture without the jargon or the hype.

No computer science degree required. No panic necessary. Just 42 things you should probably know before the next update changes everything again.