How do you tell the difference between AI that enhances human agency and AI that exploits it?

We stand at a threshold. AI is evolving faster than our ability to ask who benefits from it. The systems being built today will shape how we live, work, and connect for generations. Yet most of us have no way to tell whether these tools serve human flourishing-or something else entirely.

The Mobile Era of Intent offers a path forward. Through six practical pillars-Human Connection Enhancement, Trust-Centered Design, Seamless Integration, Anticipatory AI, Mobile as AI Gateway, and Environmentally Responsible Innovation-Van E. Eiseman provides leaders, product teams, and policymakers with the language and lens to make conscious technology choices before the defaults are set for us.

Drawing on thirty years of experience shaping digital strategy, Eiseman argues that technological outcomes aren't inevitable-they're the result of design decisions that too often go unexamined. This book equips readers to distinguish between AI that amplifies human capability and AI designed for extraction, and provides evaluation criteria to navigate AI implementation at strategic decision points, product design moments, and policy inflection points.

The Six Pillars are more than guideposts for intent-driven AI; they're commitments we make to one another.

For strategic leaders evaluating AI investments, product teams building intelligent systems, and policymakers crafting governance approaches-this book provides the framework for shaping technology that serves human intent rather than corporate convenience.

The future we deserve will not emerge by default. It will be shaped by design and forged by intent.