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The Human in the Age of AI

A series on what remains human when artificial intelligence enters work, education, truth, freedom, and love.

About the Series

The Human in the Age of AI asks what remains human when artificial intelligence enters work, education, truth, freedom, loneliness, and love. It does not begin with panic or celebration. It begins with the ordinary difficulty of judgment: what should a person still learn, decide, protect, and refuse to outsource when machines can answer, generate, imitate, and accompany. The series follows human capacities that remain fragile and necessary after AI becomes part of daily life.

Who This Series Is For

  • want to understand the place of the human in the age of AI, rather than merely keep up with technological change;
  • are concerned with how work, education, solitude, freedom, truth, and love are being reshaped;
  • want to follow an eight-book reading path on human judgment in an automated, intelligent, and digital environment.

Current Books in This Series

Current public books will be listed here when their publication information is ready.

First-Season Catalogues

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  1. AI Is Not a Person: Why Performance Is Not Personhood
  2. Work After AI: Human Worth After Automation
  3. Children After AI: Growing Up When Answers Are Instant
  4. Loneliness After AI: Machine Companionship and Human Presence
  5. Education After AI: Learning When Machines Can Give Answers
  6. Freedom After AI: Refusing to Outsource Judgment
  7. Truth After AI: Judgment in a World of Generated Speech
  8. Love After AI: Virtual Intimacy and the Irreplaceable Human

Related Essays

Why Performance Is Not Personhood

A machine-generated reply can sound patient. It can remember an earlier exchange, acknowledge concern, and produce a carefully worded apology in seconds. Faced with such performance, it is understandable to read the system as understanding, caring, or judging.

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When Efficiency No Longer Measures Human Worth

A draft appears on the screen in seconds. The person at the computer may not first feel relief. Another question may arrive instead: if this result can be produced more cheaply and consistently, what remains of my place in the work?

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Reading Path

Begin with the books and essays that introduce the central questions of this series.

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