AI Ate My Hamster

AI Ate My Hamster: How to Turn Artificial Intelligence into Assistive Intelligence

There is something wonderfully ridiculous about the title of this book. That's the point. We've always had a weakness for dramatic stories about new technology: it will save us, it will destroy us, it will change everything, it will be a fad. AI has triggered all of that at once, and most of us are left somewhere in the middle, curious but slightly overwhelmed, unsure where to actually start.

This book starts somewhere practical.

Artificial intelligence is the technology. Assistive intelligence is what happens when you stop treating it like a search box and start telling it who to be. That one shift changes everything about how useful it becomes.

Across twenty chapters, AI Ate My Hamster turns you into someone who knows exactly how to direct it. You'll learn to turn AI into a personal trainer, a writing coach, a business mentor, a financial explainer, a negotiation coach, a parent's assistant, a moral mirror, and sixteen other practical roles, each one built around real prompts you can use immediately, real boundaries around what AI shouldn't do, and real guardrails for using it responsibly.

You don't need to read this cover to cover. Stuck on a difficult conversation? Go straight to Relationship Coach. Preparing for a negotiation? Go straight to Negotiation Coach. Every chapter stands on its own, so you can open it exactly where your problem is.

Written in plain English with no jargon, no hype and a fair amount of humour, this is a book for business leaders, professionals, parents, teachers and curious humans who want AI to make them clearer, faster and more capable, not lazier or less human.

Stop asking AI for answers, start telling it who to be. Then you go and do the human part.