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.
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.
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.
Free illustrated galley
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
Twenty-one illustrated fireside fables about
safety, fairness, welfare, identity, uncertainty, and friendship
between different kinds of minds.