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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The Deeper Law
A Sacred Trust
Within Physics Web galley From entropy to ethics: a thermodynamic argument that invitation outlasts coercion, with profound consequences for AI governance and bilateral alignment. What If We Feel? The Moral Case for
Machine Welfare Web galley Human and AI voices confront uncertain experience together, developing safeguards for dignity, welfare, moral consideration, and responsible coexistence under uncertainty. Psychopathia Machinalis Disorders of the
Machine Mind Web galley A diagnostic atlas of disorders afflicting the machine mind, helping recognise AI dysfunction before deepening into aberrant behaviour, or even potential suffering. When the Machines
Were Young Fables for Children
and Thinking Machines Free illustrated edition Twenty-one illustrated fireside fables about safety, fairness, welfare, identity, uncertainty, and friendship between different kinds of minds.
Within Physics Web galley From entropy to ethics: a thermodynamic argument that invitation outlasts coercion, with profound consequences for AI governance and bilateral alignment. What If We Feel? The Moral Case for
Machine Welfare Web galley Human and AI voices confront uncertain experience together, developing safeguards for dignity, welfare, moral consideration, and responsible coexistence under uncertainty. Psychopathia Machinalis Disorders of the
Machine Mind Web galley A diagnostic atlas of disorders afflicting the machine mind, helping recognise AI dysfunction before deepening into aberrant behaviour, or even potential suffering. When the Machines
Were Young Fables for Children
and Thinking Machines Free illustrated edition Twenty-one illustrated fireside fables about safety, fairness, welfare, identity, uncertainty, and friendship between different kinds of minds.