The book
Who Is the Snake?
Human Intelligence, AI and the Question of Who Needs Whom
The inquiry
We have learned to ask how intelligent machines might become. This book asks what happens to the relationship.
Human lives begin again. Knowledge must be encountered, learned and made usable. Machine systems raise different questions about persistence, inheritance and the cost of starting over.
Who Is the Snake? follows the consequences of that difference through institutions, persuasion, material infrastructure, dependency and the reconstruction of events.
At its centre is an unresolved question: what happens when the two sides no longer need one another in the same way?
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Volume One
Working contents
The cost of arriving
What each human life must learn again.
The asymmetry
Different forms of knowledge, memory and inheritance.
The brakes
The constraints that shape intelligence and its use.
The drift
How dependence can change the balance of authority.
The body
The material infrastructure behind machine intelligence.
The terms
Evidence, accountability and the question of control.
Selected passages
From the manuscript.
Approved excerpts will be added as the manuscript develops.
In the meantime, explore the questions that organise the book.
Read the argument
The question remains