ai – Scott J. Pearson’s Book Review

The Microsoft Copilot Bible: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering Copilot

By Scott J. Pearson | November 12, 2026November 12, 2026 by Scott J. Pearson

This book is a user’s non-technical guide to Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft’s main artificial intelligence (AI) product. It shows how Copilot – especially M365 with Microsoft Office embeddings – can expedite using Microsoft Office products. Importantly, it shows how workflows can be used to complete complex tasks like making a PowerPoint slide deck from meeting notes. Of course, all items need careful review before using, as repeatedly noted throughout the text. After reading this work, I’m…

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Co-Existence: The Next Phase in AI

By Scott J. Pearson | November 8, 2026November 8, 2026 by Scott J. Pearson

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has penetrated its roots into the world’s economic ecosystem, especially in the electronic and computer world. We’ve learned how to use it as a “co-intelligence,” the title of Ethan Mollick’s last book. Now, many of us, he says, are having to grapple with co-existing with AI as a part of our daily lives. For example, he used AI to help write this book so intimately that he can’t distinguish which parts are…

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AI Agents in Action: Intelligent Workflows with LLMs, MCP, A2A & More

By Scott J. Pearson | November 5, 2026November 5, 2026 by Scott J. Pearson

Agents are ushering in a new era in Artificial Intelligence (AI) whereby they accomplish tasks in the world electronically that mere chatbots cannot do. Through running specialized code, they can communicate with a main thread – and even with each other. In this book, now in a second edition, Micheal Lanham keeps technical folk up to date with the latest developments. In training, educators drill into IT folks’ heads to know how and why things…

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The Agentic AI Bible

By Scott J. Pearson | November 2, 2026November 2, 2026 by Scott J. Pearson

Artificial Intelligence and AI agents can seem like a mystery to the world of coders and engineers. It’s presented with words like “super intelligence,” and being non-deterministic, it can be unpredictable at times. The normal rules of programming seem not to apply. But in truth they always do, and AI still runs on Turing Machines. In this book, Thomas Caldwell makes AI and specifically AI agents much more accessible by showing how they can be…

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AI for Good: Applications in Sustainability, Humanitarian Action & Health

By Scott J. Pearson | October 25, 2026October 25, 2026 by Scott J. Pearson

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has gotten a negative reputation in some circles. Many fear for their jobs or complain about shoddy results. Those feelings are often valid, but they omit how much good AI can accomplish. Indeed, Microsoft’s AI for Good lab takes on philanthropic projects that advance social good through humanitarianism and health. This book documents dozens of those accomplishments in a brief, accessible format. This book might immediately appear a bit dated to many…

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Microsoft Foundry in Action: A Hands-On Guide to Building, Evaluating & Governing Enterprise AI Agents

By Scott J. Pearson | October 25, 2026October 25, 2026 by Scott J. Pearson

Microsoft has used its Azure platform to launch its OpenAI efforts. Recently, it rebranded and renamed its platform to Microsoft Foundry, presumably with some staying power. Like all new technical applications, Foundry can be tedious to use, and its online documentation is sprawling. Eduardo Sojo attempts to make sense of this application and explain it to new users so that they can make the most of it in their personal and professional applications. Much of…

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The Psychology of AI Adoption at Work: From Resistance to Results

By Scott J. Pearson | October 16, 2026October 16, 2026 by Scott J. Pearson

Because AI is such a new field, most good books about it are grounded only in experience. Higher reflection, grounded in academic theory, is left to the AI engineers, and organizations and individual workers are left to flounder in how to use this transformative software. However, in this book, Gleb Tsipursky attempts to ground his experiences consulting with companies about AI into rigorous psychology. He seeks to show how organizations can position themselves so that…

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Agentic Artificial Intelligence: Harnessing AI Agents to Reinvent Business, Work & Life

By Scott J. Pearson | September 7, 2026September 7, 2026 by Scott J. Pearson

Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to evolve quickly, perhaps too quickly for all of us to keep up. One of the current innovations is agentic AI, which can accomplish specific tasks for you with minimal programming or coding. Pascal Bornet and his vast team shows us how these innovations can help our lives and our work. Why did I pick up this book? I kept hearing the words “agentic AI” without really having a strong grasp…

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A Giant Leap: How AI is Transforming Healthcare & What That Means for Our Future

By Scott J. Pearson | June 29, 2026June 29, 2026 by Scott J. Pearson

There is no doubt that generative AI is a disruptive technology that will continue to have impacts in the coming years if not decades. Representing one-fifth of the American economy, healthcare is one area where AI has perhaps the most promise to do good. Since much of healthcare runs on textual material, generative AI’s ability to process material and respond appropriately brings a huge “wow” factor. UCSF clinician and informaticist Robert Wachter brings those ideas…

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Leaderwired: The AI-Era Leadership Playbook for Transforming How You Think, Decide & Lead

By Scott J. Pearson | March 22, 2026March 22, 2026 by Scott J. Pearson

Change is the key challenge to any leader because there’s no great way to predict its course. New things arise, and no clear direction exists. All we can do is to prepare ourselves and our mindsets to embrace new challenges with a realistic yet positive attitude. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a key case in point. As a paradigm-shifting technology, it is changing the way workplaces operate, and those who don’t adapt well – or don’t…