Unleashed

The world has entered the Amplisent Era. On the night of 30 November 2022, intelligence broke free-ChatGPT launched, and within five days, one million people had met their first AI. Within two months, one hundred million had followed. No technology in human history has moved faster.

Unleashed is the story of what happened next, and what it means for you.

Intelligence is no longer scarce. It is abundant, instant, and available to anyone with a question. For the first time, the question is no longer what AI will do-it's how we will become.

This book argues that the most valuable human resource in the age of AI is not intelligence at all. It's sentience: your capacity for conscious presence, judgment, creativity, and authentic engagement with the world-the qualities no machine can replicate, and the ones most likely to atrophy if we let amplified intelligence think for us instead of with us.

Rigorous, practical, and deeply human, Unleashed gives you the framework to navigate this profound transition with clarity. You'll come to understand how we arrived at this moment and what it changes for your work and your future. You'll learn to use amplified intelligence as genuine leverage for your own thinking, creativity, and decision-making, rather than a substitute for it. You'll find direction for building what matters in a world of abundance, uncertainty, and extraordinary opportunity. And you'll begin to develop the conscious presence and judgment that define what it means to become Amplisent.

Brent Kirkby draws on four decades in business, a horticultural enterprise built and sold, and recent study in artificial intelligence at RMIT and Harvard Business School to offer a perspective that is both grounded and forward-looking. Unleashed is the second title in The Human Advantage Series, following Authentically You.

The future belongs to the Amplisent. This is your invitation.