AI Can Make You Smarter: Practical Skills. Sharper Thinking. Business Value.

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Editorial Book Review:

By Christian Smith

Charles Kreitzberg has been thinking about how humans and computers work together since the 1960s, when a chance encounter with early computing changed the direction of his entire career. Six decades later, as a cognitive psychologist, UX pioneer, and Senior UX Advisor at Princeton, he is probably the most qualified person alive to write the book that most AI guides have been too timid to attempt: one that asks not just what AI can do, but what it can do specifically for your thinking.

That distinction is the heart of AI Can Make You Smarter, and it matters more than it might sound. Most books in this space are really efficiency guides dressed up as something bigger. Learn the prompts, save the time, get more done. Kreitzberg is after something more lasting. His argument is that AI used thoughtfully doesn't just automate tasks. It can genuinely sharpen the way you analyze problems, communicate ideas, and make decisions, if you know how to engage with it as a thinking partner rather than a search engine with better manners.

What makes the book feel genuinely different is the cognitive psychology running underneath the practical advice. Kreitzberg understands how people actually form beliefs, evaluate information, and get led astray by bias and hallucination, both the AI's and their own. That understanding shapes every technique he teaches, and it means the book is building something that lasts rather than skills that will be obsolete when the next model drops.

The coverage is refreshingly tool-agnostic too. ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, the principles here apply across all of them, which is exactly right for a book that is fundamentally about developing your own capacities rather than mastering any particular platform.

For professionals who want to stay genuinely valuable as AI reshapes their field rather than just staying busy, this book is exactly where to start.

About the Author

Charles B. Kreitzberg

Charlie Kreitzberg brings together the perspectives of psychologist, musician, technologist, and UX designer. His fascination with computers began in the 1960s, when a chance encounter with early computing revealed how technology could sharpen human thinking, an insight that shaped a six-decade career spanning programming, product design, cognitive psychology, and user experience.

In 1982, he founded Cognetics, an award-winning UX design and consulting firm. In 2016, he joined Princeton University as Senior UX Advisor.

Throughout his career, Charlie has blended humanistic values with technical depth, helping people use digital tools to think more clearly, work more effectively, and adapt with confidence to a changing world.

His new book AI Can Make You Smarter is designed to help people achieve strategic AI literacy. He posts updates and extended information on his Substack AI Can Make You Smarter.