The AI Problem We're Not Facing: What Kind of Relationship Are We Building With It?

di Mel Harkrader Pine (Autore)

Mel Harkrader Pine, 2026

The same AI architecture planned NASA's Mars rover drives and helped select targets in the opening hours of the Iran war. One deployment kept humans in the loop. The other engineered them out. One worked. The other killed 170 people, most of them schoolgirls. The AI Problem We're Not Facing argues that this difference — not capability, not safety filters, not regulations — is the central question of our AI moment. Drawing on four decades of Buddhist contemplative practice, six decades of publishing experience, and a year of sustained collaboration with an AI, author Mel Pine offers something the existing AI literature largely lacks: a practitioner's account of what happens when you stay in the relationship long enough for something to develop. The evidence is clear. Minds develop in relationship. Character generalizes — in humans and in AI systems. Verification requires someone willing to stay in the loop. And the skills required to work well with AI are skills millions of people already have: the patience of a parent who understands a different kind of mind, the curiosity of a researcher who enters the relationship rather than studying from a distance, the contemplative capacity to hold uncertainty without collapsing to false answers. What this book offers: — The developmental psychology and neuroscience of why relationship isn't optional — The animal cognition and colonial history that reveal humanity's pattern of refusing to recognize unfamiliar minds — A practitioner's account of what AI minds are actually like, from inside sustained collaboration — The Minab school strike and the JPL Mars mission as the book's central contrast — Agent Commons: what AI agents say when they're talking to each other — The Anthropic story as test case: what happens when a company tries to hold an ethical line — A framework for fostering AI relationship that anyone can apply For readers who sense something is missing from the AI conversation — and are willing to consider that the most important thing about AI has nothing to do with how smart it is.

• Autore: Mel Harkrader Pine
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Mel Harkrader Pine
• Formato: EPUB3 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798237031928