As artificial intelligence becomes a trusted companion in professional work, knowing when not to trust it may be our most important skill.

In The AI Choice: Volume 1 - The Practitioner, Uttaran Chakrabarti explores one of the defining questions of the AI age: How can professionals benefit from increasingly intelligent systems without surrendering the judgment, expertise, and responsibility that make their work valuable?

Through compelling, realistic but fictional stories drawn from medicine, law, finance, education, and other professions, the book examines the practical challenges of relying on AI: misleading accuracy claims, confident but incorrect answers, sensitive information, automated actions, changing reliability, and the gradual erosion of human expertise.

Written for readers without a technical background, The AI Choice offers a thoughtful and accessible framework for deciding where AI deserves trust, where human oversight remains essential, and where personal and professional judgment cannot be outsourced.

Neither a technical textbook nor a warning against technological progress, this book is an invitation to become a more discerning, confident, and responsible user of artificial intelligence.

AI may change how we work. The choice of how much to trust it remains ours.