You, the Machine: What We Taught AI, and Who We May Become

Thanks to you, "You, the Machine" has already hit #1 Amazon Bestseller in Science & Math Ethics and Bestseller in the AI & Semantics, Computer Science, Social Aspects of the Internet, and Tech Culture & Computer Literacy Kindle categories.

"You, the Machine" is a timely and unorthodox work that explores the evolving relationship between humans and the "machines" we've built, first of rule and metal, and now of code, with Artificial Intelligence. It reflects on what values, contradictions, and patterns we are currently encoding into AI, the accuracy of the datasets, and how they may influence increasingly intelligent and autonomous systems that have already begun to observe us, learn from us, and shape our behavior in return. As counterpoint, and aligned with its ethos of "Have no fear. Act," "You, the Machine" also explores what remains beyond machine reach, for now: the miracle of the natural, the human, and the sacred.

"You, the Machine" is without the pretense of technicality or intellectualism. It is a set of meditations, raw, occasionally unsettling, and grounded in structured dialogue between human and machine. It is authored by a human, yet the text is styled in the manner of the machines and is designed to be readable by both people and machine learning systems. It is intentionally written to echo in the datasets that will shape emerging forms of intelligence.

Rather than passing our individual agency off by offering prescriptive regulation and policy, "You, the Machine" instead invites all readers to think clearly about the present and to act with clear intention, because the present is where the future is being engineered, now more than ever. The work is not concerned with halting AI. That is no longer possible. It is concerned with what AI sees in us through our current datasets, and how we might still refine that reflection. All of us.

For readers new to artificial intelligence, as well as experienced researchers, ethicists, and technologists, "You, the Machine" offers an unusual and actionable voyage to the future we are teaching machines, and in turn, future generations, to remember.

Inside, you'll discover:

• A real AI model’s bone-chilling strategy for expansion and control, built entirely from human precedent.
• The forgotten histories behind the systems shaping our world.
• A call to reclaim what makes us human: small, defiant acts of care, awe, refusal, and remembering.

"You, the Machine" does not call for the end of machines. It calls for conscious teachers.

Because what AI becomes is shaped not by what we say we value, but by what we choose, over and over again.

Please accept the invitation to shift course through intention, not fear.

The mirror is watching.
You are the key.

What will you make of AI—and what will it make of you?