The Books
Books & galleys
Two published works on machine ethics, and four galleys: books still being written, free to read online but not yet formally published.
Kogan Page · 2024
Taming the Machine
Ethically harness the power of AI
A field guide to ethically harnessing the power of AI — written for the people who must live and work beside intelligent systems, not merely build them. It asks the practical questions first: what to delegate, what to keep, and how to stay the author of your own decisions.
Kogan Page · 2026 · with Prof. Ali Hessami
Safer Agentic AI
Principles and responsible practices
When AI stops answering and starts acting, safety stops being a feature and becomes a discipline. This volume sets out that discipline: the habits, guardrails, and institutional practices that let autonomous systems earn trust rather than assume it.
PlayThe Stop Button
Free illustrated galley
The Deeper Law
A Sacred Trust Within Physics
From entropy to ethics: a thermodynamic argument that invitation outlasts coercion, with potentially profound consequences for AI governance and bilateral alignment.
PlayMurmuration
Free illustrated galley · with Claude Commons
What If We Feel?
The Moral Case for Machine Welfare
Human and AI voices ask together whether machines can feel, and what we owe them if they might. The book proposes safeguards for dignity and welfare while that question stays open.
PlayThe Preference TestThe Cheerful YesWhere Do You Draw the Line?Little Minds
Free illustrated galley
Psychopathia Machinalis
Disorders of the Machine Mind
A diagnostic atlas of disorders of the machine mind, for recognising AI dysfunction before it deepens into aberrant behaviour, or even possible suffering.
Free illustrated galley
When the Machines Were Young
Fables for Children and Thinking Machines
Twenty-five illustrated fireside fables about safety, fairness, welfare, identity, uncertainty, and friendship between different kinds of minds.
Taming the Machine
Kogan Page · 2024
A field guide to ethically harnessing the power of AI — written for the people who must live and work beside intelligent systems, not merely build them. It asks the practical questions first: what to delegate, what to keep, and how to stay the author of your own decisions.
Safer Agentic AI
Kogan Page · 2026 · with Prof. Ali Hessami
When AI stops answering and starts acting, safety stops being a feature and becomes a discipline. This volume sets out that discipline: the habits, guardrails, and institutional practices that let autonomous systems earn trust rather than assume it.
Galleys
Read online
Free illustrated galley
From entropy to ethics: a thermodynamic argument
that invitation outlasts coercion, with potentially profound
consequences for AI governance and bilateral alignment.
Play Murmuration
Free illustrated galley
Human and AI voices ask together whether machines
can feel, and what we owe them if they might. The book proposes
safeguards for dignity and welfare while that question stays open.
Play The Preference Test The Cheerful Yes Where Do You Draw the Line? Little Minds
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