Taming the Machine
Kogan Page · 2024
Ethically harness the power of AI — a field guide for people who must live and work beside it.
About the bookThe Work
Machines are learning to act. Someone must teach them to care.
Nell Watson specialises in agentic AI safety, transparency, and value alignment — spanning hands-on machine learning engineering, international standards leadership, government advisory, and books that bring AI ethics to a general audience.
Chair of IEEE 3152 and IEEE 3173, Vice-Chair of IEEE 7001, President of EURAIO, and funding advisor to the Survival & Flourishing Fund — with current work centred on agentic safety architectures, constitutional alignment, and psychosecurity.
The Books
Two books on living well with machines
Safer Agentic AI
Kogan Page · 2026 · with Prof. Ali Hessami
When AI stops answering and starts acting, safety becomes a discipline. This is its handbook.
About the bookFour galleys, free to read online but not yet formally published, are in Books.
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The sky above
The night here keeps its own calendar — Easter by the Gregorian computus, the menorah lit one candle a night, the Perseids on time.