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The AI Trade-Off: Who We Become When Judgment Moves to Machines
Paperback
PhilosophyTechnology & Engineering
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 17 2026
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Artificial intelligence is no longer just a tool. It recommends, predicts, interprets, and increasingly decides-shaping how we work, learn, relate, and understand ourselves.
As AI systems grow more capable, something subtle begins to shift. Judgment that once formed through experience, reflection, and responsibility begins to move out of human hands and into intelligent systems.
The AI Trade-Off explores this transformation through history, philosophy, and contemporary life. Tracing the evolution of human selfhood from ancient ideas of fate, through Enlightenment reason, and into today's algorithmic age, Ken Brown examines how Western ideas of autonomy, individuality, and inner life are being quietly reshaped by intelligent machines.
This book is not a call to reject AI, nor a guide to mastering it. It is an inquiry into what happens when systems begin to think for us-and how that shift alters who we become.
Written for curious readers, technologists, policymakers, and anyone concerned with the future of human agency, The AI Trade-Off offers a clear-eyed exploration of the trade-offs we make when convenience replaces deliberation, prediction displaces responsibility, and intelligence increasingly lives outside the human mind.
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