Humans First, Machines Second: 30 Sparks To Reimagine Winning In The Age Of AI

Vineet Nayar

Paperback • 216 Pages • ₹ 799.00 • English • 9789377305468
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Publisher Penguin Business
ISBN13 9789377305468
ASIN/SKU 9377305462
Book Format Paperback
Language English
Pages 216
List Price ₹ 799.00
Publishing Date 20/07/2026
Dimensions 24 x 15.7 x 1.36 cm
Weight 610 g
Book Code BD00068404

Discover Humans First, Machines Second: 30 Sparks To Reimagine Winning In The Age Of AI by Vineet Nayar. This book is published by Penguin Business in Paperback format, ISBN 9789377305468, ASIN 9377305462, under Computers and Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science Books.

Book Description

‘The greatest danger of the artificial intelligence (AI) age is not smarter machines.
It is humans slowly losing belief in their own uniqueness.’

Something unsettling is happening around us.

Young people are beginning to feel average before life has even started. Professionals are exhausting themselves trying to prove they still matter in a world obsessed with speed, optimization and constant reinvention.

In our pursuit of smarter machines, many are starting to believe they are replaceable.

As leaders race to outstrip each other in building AI-first organizations, Humans First, Machines Second challenges the new wave that is quietly reshaping workplaces, classrooms and lives.

Through 30 ‘sparks’―powerful stories and hard-won lessons from boardrooms, classrooms and crises―Vineet Nayar reveals a radically different path to winning in the age of AI. Not by competing with machines on speed.

But by rediscovering what makes human beings extraordinary and irreplaceable.

Provocative, practical and deeply hopeful, this is a guide for anyone who wants to thrive, lead and remain human in a world being redesigned by AI.

‘AI may change the rules. But only humans decide who wins.’

Author Biography

VINEET NAYAR is the former CEO of HCL Technologies (HCLT) and bestselling author of Employees First, Customers Second―one of the most influential management books of the last two decades.

At HCLT, he led one of the IT industry’s most celebrated transformations by putting human potential at the centre of business performance. Today, as founder chairman of Sampark Foundation, he is helping transform
learning outcomes for millions of children across rural India using technology designed to amplify human potential, not replace it.

Across boardrooms and classrooms, one belief has guided everything he does: Human beings achieve extraordinary things when somebody helps them believe they are capable of more.

Humans First, Machines Second is that belief reimagined for the age of AI.

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