A book in development
The Machine
That Described Me.
Making a Human Life
in the Age of
Artificial Intelligence
A book about what happens to the person when a machine can produce the result. It began with a question asked of a machine, and it is being written inside the condition it examines.
Making a Human Life
in the Age of
Artificial Intelligence
Who
did the
thinking?
What exists,
what does not.
- What exists
An opening essay, The Machine That Described Me, written as an exploratory draft with AI assistance on 26 September 2026. It sets the book’s central question: if AI can increasingly help us decide, create and interpret our lives, which forms of participation matter to the people we become?
- What does not exist
A finished manuscript, a contract with a publisher, a release date, a pre-order, or a final cover. None is implied, and none will be invented to fill the space. This page will not display the signs of a finished book while the book is unfinished.
- How it began
“I asked a machine what book I should write. More precisely, I asked it to consider everything it knew about me and give me the best idea. The wording matters. I was asking for something beyond a subject, an outline or a market opportunity.”
From the opening essay, exploratory draft, 26 September 2026. Not approved for publication.
- What happens next
Revision against the standard the essay sets for itself: identify the sentences that overreach, the interpretations that flatter, and the formulations that cannot yet be defended. Then the harder work — whether the shape a machine proposed can carry the life and argument intended for it.
When the book has a publisher, a date or a page count, this page will say so. Until then, it will not.