商品描述
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.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
超越炒作，也不陷入恐慌：自主 AI 如何重塑工作、競爭與權力，以及決定它將走向何方的判斷。
關於代理型 AI（agentic AI）的討論已逐漸固化為兩個陣營——承諾毫無阻力地實現轉型的支持者，以及預測社會將走向崩潰的懷疑論者。然而，這兩方都無法幫助那些每天真正必須做出具體決策的人：必須選擇在哪些地方部署自主代理程式的企業領導者；想要從循環融資中辨別真正訊號的投資者；制定將影響未來十年規則的政策制定者；以及我們這些身處劇烈變動世界中的普通人。
《When Machines Act》是一本寫給秉持紀律、尋求理性中道者的指南。在本書中，Jeffrey Sonnenfeld、David Siegel 與 Stephen Henriques 為讀者清楚說明這十年最具決定性的轉變：自主 AI 的到來。這些系統不再只是回答問題，而是能在整個組織或個人的日常生活中採取行動、做出決策並執行工作。
本書奠基於三位作者數十年的共同經驗：他們分別曾擔任《Fortune》500 大企業執行長享譽全球的顧問、電腦時代的先驅技術專家，或大型上市與私人企業的投資者。內容融入數十場與科技領域領袖的專家訪談，以及在 Yale 執行長論壇中與超過 300 位執行長進行的非公開對談，從中提煉出一套重要原則，讓你能將其帶進董事會、州政府機關，或餐桌旁的日常對話中。
《When Machines Act》從那些正在做出關鍵選擇的決策現場出發，以引人入勝、洞察清晰且歷久彌新的筆觸，為我們共同的未來提供指引。
作者簡介
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is the Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management at the Yale School of Management and founder and president of the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute, the world's first school for incumbent CEOs. He has advised five U.S. presidents from both parties and is the author of multiple books, most recently the
New York Times bestseller
Trump's Ten Commandments. His Yale CEO forums have hosted more than 1,500 of the world's most influential business leaders, and his commentary appears regularly in
Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CNBC, MS NOW, CNN, and across national media.
David Siegel is a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He co-founded Two Sigma, a leading investment management firm that leverages technology, AI, and data science. Guided by his focus on education and science, he founded Siegel Family Endowment to examine how technology shapes society, and Open Athena, a nonprofit organization that bridges the gap between academic research and the AI frontier. He also serves on several prominent boards, including MIT, Cornell Tech, and the DoE Science Advisory Committee.
Stephen Henriques is a senior fellow at the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute, an alumnus of McKinsey & Company, and a former policy advisor to the Governor of Connecticut and real estate private equity investor. He coauthored the
Fortune series at the heart of this book and led the cross-industry agentic AI research that informs it.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld 是 Yale School of Management 的 Lester Crown 管理實務教授，也是 Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute 的創辦人兼所長。Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute 是全球第一所專為現任 CEO 設立的學校。他曾為美國兩大政黨的五位美國總統提供諮詢，並著有多本書，最近出版的作品是《New York Times》暢銷書《Trump's Ten Commandments》。他的 Yale CEO 論壇曾接待超過 1,500 位全球最具影響力的企業領袖；他的評論也經常刊登或播出於《Fortune》、《Wall Street Journal》、《The New York Times》、CNBC、MS NOW、CNN 及全美各大媒體。
David Siegel 是一位電腦科學家、企業家與慈善家。他共同創辦了 Two Sigma，這是一家善用科技、AI 與資料科學的領先投資管理公司。基於對教育與科學的重視，他創立了 Siegel Family Endowment，探討科技如何形塑社會；此外也創辦了非營利組織 Open Athena，致力於彌合學術研究與 AI 前沿之間的落差。他也擔任多個知名組織的董事，包括 MIT、Cornell Tech，以及美國能源部（DoE）科學諮詢委員會。
Stephen Henriques 是 Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute 的資深研究員、McKinsey & Company 校友，曾擔任 Connecticut 州州長的政策顧問，也曾從事不動產私募股權投資。他與人共同撰寫了本書的核心《Fortune》系列，並領導跨產業的 agentic AI 研究，為本書提供重要依據。
