"As AI systems become more autonomous, risk becomes more complex, more connected, and harder to control. Leaders need more than enthusiasm. They need judgment, structure, and a method. The Ethical Nightmare Challenge offers exactly that." - Pascal Bornet, Award-winning expert in AI and Automation and best-selling author of Intelligent Automation
Who’s Holding the Flamethrower? This is Your Field Guide to Avoiding AI’s Worst Nightmares
Suppose I have a cat and you’re kind enough to give me a cat guidebook. It works well, the cat is happy, I’m happy.
But then I get a tiger. I come to you and say, “I need you to update the cat guidebook to include tigers.”
Would you say, “Sure, no problem, they’re both felines”? Or would you look at me with fire in your eyes and exclaim, “Are you nuts? These are wildly different beasts. You need a new guide altogether!”
This is the crisis facing businesses today. For years, we used "cat manuals" for narrow AI. Then Generative AI burst onto the scene, and we tried to make the old rules fit. Now, as organizations race toward Agentic AI and complex automations, we are trying to manage tigers with cat-sized thinking.
The result? A looming Risk Clusterf***.
AI ethics expert Reid Blackman reveals why the standard approach to AI governance is "utterly inadequate" and destined to fall apart. Whether you are a CEO, a developer, or or leading a department or project, you are now part of an ecosystem where SO MANY DECISIONS lead to unpredictable, high-stakes outcomes.
This book isn't a boring checklist; it's a safety rope that allows you to innovate faster without the fear of going splat.
The Ethical Nightmare Challenge presents a novel, outcome-oriented framework based on three simple, urgent questions:
1. What are your organization’s AI ethical nightmares?
2. What resources will you build to avoid them?
3. How will you train your people to use those resources effectively?
If your organization can identify and avoid its potential nightmares, it’s ready for the future of AI. If it can’t, you shouldn't sleep well.
“Reid Blackman lays out the very real ways AI can practically and ethically expose your organization, often in ways you won’t see coming. More importantly, he offers simple, powerful frameworks to help you see clearly and avoid those nightmare scenarios before they happen. An insightful and needed reality check and playbook.” - Mark J. Silverman, bestselling author of The Rising Leader Handbook
