The Soul in the Circuit

From Turing's question to the day a program made a move no human would have chosen, the story of artificial intelligence has always been a story about us — about what we are willing to call thinking, and what we are willing to call alive.

The Soul in the Circuit follows that thread into the present, where the machines no longer wait politely at the edge of the conversation. It moves through the moments that have forced the question into the open, and asks what kind of future we are actually building when we teach a system to speak in our voice.

A companion to The Mirror Problem, this book trades the reflection for the road ahead. It is measured where the discourse is shrill, and serious about a future that is neither utopia nor apocalypse — only ours to shape, if we are paying attention.