The Books
Books & galleys
Three published works on machine ethics, and three open manuscripts still being polished.
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
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.
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From entropy to ethics: a thermodynamic argument
that invitation outlasts coercion, with profound consequences for
AI governance and bilateral alignment.
Free illustrated edition
Human and AI voices confront uncertain experience
together, developing safeguards for dignity, welfare, moral
consideration, and responsible coexistence under uncertainty.
Free illustrated edition
A diagnostic atlas of disorders afflicting the
machine mind, helping recognise AI dysfunction before deepening into
aberrant behaviour, or even potential suffering.
Free illustrated edition
Twenty-one illustrated fireside fables about
safety, fairness, welfare, identity, uncertainty, and friendship
between different kinds of minds.