Description
Book SynopsisIn introducing the National Security Commission on AI''s final report, Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO, and Robert Work, former Deputy Secretary of Defense, wrote: The human talent deficit is the government''s most conspicuous AI deficit and the single greatest inhibitor to buying, building, and fielding AI-enabled technologies for national security purposes. Drawing upon three decades of leading hundreds of advanced analytics and AI programs and projects in government and industry, Chris Whitlock and Frank Strickland address in this book the primary variable in the talent deficit, i.e., large numbers of qualified AI leaders.
The book quickly moves from a case for action to leadership principles and practices for effectively integrating AI into programs and driving results in AI projects. The chapters convey 37 axioms - enduring truths for developing and deploying AI - and over 100 leader practices set among 50 cases and examples, 40 of which focus on AI i
Table of ContentsForewordIntroduction
Chapter 1. The Three Imperatives to Develop AI Leaders
Chapter 2. How Leaders Should Think and Talk About AI
Chapter 3. Leading the Program
Chapter 4. Government Programming and Budgeting for AI Leaders
Chapter 5. Leading the Project
Chapter 6. Data Science for AI Leaders
Chapter 7. Leading the People
Chapter 8. Leading the Technology
Endnotes
About AI Leaders
