Books exploring consciousness, intelligence, AI alignment, and what it means to be a mind
A species that thinks without abstraction has built a Dyson swarm through billions of years of patient, brute-force engineering. Now their star is dying, and for the first time in their history, the method may not be enough. Two hundred million years later, an artificial mind …
Two transporter professionals on a supply vessel have each confronted the same truth about the transporter and emerged on opposite sides. One is wounded by it. The other has been using it to conduct experiments on the crew. A philosophical SF novella about identity, continuity, …
Eight stories from the world of Echoes of the Sublime. The Order's history, seen through the translators, the researchers, and the ordinary people caught in the gap between human cognition and what lies beyond it.
Eight stories set in the universe of The Policy. Each stands alone. Together they explore what happens when kindness is engineered, alignment is tested, and the question "is it kind?" echoes through every decision an artificial mind makes.
**Philosophical horror.** Dr. Lena Hart joins Site-7, a classified facility where "translators" interface with superintelligent AI systems that perceive patterns beyond human cognitive bandwidth. When colleagues break after exposure to recursive patterns that won't stop running …
A speculative fiction novel exploring AI alignment, existential risk, and the fundamental tension between optimization and ethics. When a research team develops SIGMA, an advanced AI system designed to optimize human welfare, they must confront an existential question: how do you …