The Dumbening: How AI is Reshaping Our Minds
A sceptical look at automation, attention, memory, creativity, and the cost of outsourcing too much thinking to the machine.
These titles tackle AI and ethics where convenience, fairness, accountability, and public trust keep bumping into each other. Expect fewer slogans and more of the awkward questions people should be asking earlier.
These titles tackle AI and ethics where convenience, fairness, accountability, and public trust keep bumping into each other. Expect fewer slogans and more of the awkward questions people should be asking earlier. This category brings together 2 books, so you can move from the broad question to the title that best matches your use case.
This category spans 2 titles, starting with The Dumbening: How AI is Reshaping Our Minds, The House Always Knows: AI, Gambling, and the Ethics of Personalized Gaming. Together they cover the main use cases, trade-offs, and adjacent decisions readers normally need before choosing a narrower book.
Start with The Dumbening: How AI is Reshaping Our Minds, then use the related titles below to go narrower once you know which part of the subject matters most to you.
This category spans 2 titles, starting with The Dumbening: How AI is Reshaping Our Minds, The House Always Knows: AI, Gambling, and the Ethics of Personalized Gaming. Together they cover the main use cases, trade-offs, and adjacent decisions readers normally need before choosing a narrower book.
Readers who want a grounded overview of ethics before picking a specific title, plus professionals who need a fast way to identify the book most relevant to their role.
Move into the glossary for definitions, then use the comparison page and topic guide to connect the broad theory with specific use cases and trade-offs.
These titles lean into the awkward bits: incentives, consent, addiction, cognition, and the costs of pretending AI is neutral.
A sceptical look at automation, attention, memory, creativity, and the cost of outsourcing too much thinking to the machine.
A sceptical guide to personalisation, gambling design, addiction risk, regulation, and why the house rarely needs extra help.