Delegated Life, The

di Ronald Charron (Autore)

Ronald Charron, 2026

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. An AI assistant already reads your calendar. Soon one will answer your email, spend your money, and negotiate in your name — if it doesn't already. Your employer is deploying agents into hiring, purchasing, and operations. Your government is deploying them into everything else. Nobody will ask you to approve this transfer of authority. It arrives as convenience, one default at a time — until the morning your assistant doesn't draft the email you expected, but completes the transaction you didn't. The Delegated Life is about that crossing: the moment machines moved from language into action, holding our credentials, acting in our name, under authority no one quite granted and few can inspect. It follows delegated authority through the places it already operates — workplaces, homes, markets, critical infrastructure, and war — and asks the question that decides everything: who answers when machines act? The answer is a practical test you can apply to any system that acts for humans: Can you inspect what it did? Can you reverse it? Can you contest it? Did anyone truly consent? What survives when it fails? And who — exactly — is accountable for the result? Ask these questions, and you can tell delegation from surrender. Fail to ask them, and someone else has already decided. Inside the book: twelve chapters tracing the rise of agentic AI from tools to delegates — the delegated workplace, the delegated self, machine-speed conflict, Artificial Intelligence as infrastructure, ownership and law, the unequal revolution — closing with the six conditions for meaningful human control and the antipatterns that quietly defeat it. Fully sourced, with notes and bibliography; illustrative scenarios are clearly labelled as composites. Written for executives, policymakers, technologists, and every reader who has begun handing decisions to machines — and wants to remain the author of their own life. Book 1 of The Delegated Life series. Each volume stands alone.

• Autore: Ronald Charron
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 04:29:17
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Ronald Charron
• Lingua: Inglese
• EAN: 9780466403171