Communication Skills for Generative AI: The Essential Guide for Humans (Human-Computer Interaction Series)

Communication Skills for Generative AI: A Practical Guide for Humans is the first comprehensive book to treat communication with generative AI as a distinct human competence-analogous to digital literacy, media literacy, or academic writing skills.Instead of framing the field through the narrow lens of “prompt engineering,” this book introduces a broader, deeper, and more natural paradigm: human-AI communication.It argues that as generative AI becomes embedded in daily life, professional work, research, education, and creative practices, humans must learn not merely to instruct AI systems but to communicate with them effectively, collaboratively, and safely.The book covers the foundations, principles, techniques, and future directions of communicating with modern AI systems.It begins by explaining why the rise of generative AI requires a new set of human capabilities, then outlines the psychological, linguistic, cognitive, and interactional mechanisms that shape human-AI dialogue.It pr