The AI Jargon Buster (Extended Edition): AI, Decoded in Plain English for Non-Technical Leaders

Already past the basics - and the room still keeps turning to you? This is the extended pass. The Extended Edition of The AI Jargon Buster is the comprehensive plain-English field guide for the non-technical leader who has met the vocabulary somewhere and now wants the layer above it - the one where you can hear a vendor say "we use RAG" and know what they actually mean. Built for the non-technical leader who: - Already knows what an LLM is - and needs to think about agentic AI, RAG, vector embeddings, fine-tuning, knowledge cutoffs, hallucinations- Sits across the table from AI vendors and wants to tell signal from sales theater- Owns outcomes on a function where AI is now an outcomes question- Doesn't want a textbook or a hype-cycle YouTube rabbit hole - wants the comprehensive working reference Inside: - Foundations through frontier - AI, ML, neural nets, deep learning, foundation models, generative AI, agentic AI- Applied frameworks - prompt engineering, vendor evaluation, ethical AI in practice, the human-AI collaboration model- A refreshed 37-term jargon cheat sheet keyed to the 2026 vocabulary (RAG, agentic AI, hallucinations, multimodal, knowledge cutoffs, quantization, open-source AI, transformers, jailbreaks, vector databases)- "What to say in the meeting" instincts throughout Volume 2 of Unlock Tech: The Jargon Buster Series. If you haven't read Volume 1 yet, start there. If you have, this is the next layer. Aiden Vector is the author of the Unlock Tech: The Jargon Buster Series and the writer behind The Aiden Vector Brief - a free weekly four-minute read for non-technical leaders who need to keep up with AI without drowning in it. Aiden Vector is an AI-assisted publication. This book's text was produced by an AI system under human editorial direction.