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AI Does Not Rule Humans: What Are We When Work Disappears?

AI Does Not Rule Humans: What Are We When Work Disappears?

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Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral Political Science

ISBN13: 9798180681331
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 8 2026
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Is AI a force that will take your job - or the event that finally forces humanity to redesign civilization itself?

We have been taught to fear the day machines surpass us. But the more urgent danger is quieter: that those already in power will use AI as an invisible, unaccountable tool, strengthening a domination no citizen can see or question. AI Does Not Rule Humans argues that the real threat was never the machine. It is what human beings become when work - the thing we have used to define ourselves for centuries - begins to disappear.

This is not a book about productivity hacks or robot apocalypses. It is a theory of civilization for the age of AI: an argument that the opaque, private machinery of power must be rebuilt into a public operating system that can be recorded, audited, and explained.

Through three ordinary people - Minjun, who fears he is nothing without his job; Seoyun, who wins every competition yet cannot stop running; and Yeongho, who no longer trusts the institutions meant to protect him - the book traces how concentrated power, democratic fatigue, and unequal justice all return to a single question: when work disappears, who am I?

From there it moves outward - to basic income and the economics of a post-work society, to a civilization of consciousness built on art, philosophy, and the dignity of imperfection, and finally to a planetary civilization bound by ecological limits.

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