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The Latent Author: An Experiment in Collaborative Intelligence (CI)
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ISBN10: 1949938263
ISBN13: 9781949938265
Publisher: Siliconseapress
Published: Feb 11 2026
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781949938265
Publisher: Siliconseapress
Published: Feb 11 2026
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Latent Author: Towards a Horizontal OntologyIn a Manhattan where ink drowns in pixels and words struggle to breathe, we encounter Homer Aug: a legendary, old-guard editor, on the cusp of seventy-seven. Cynical to the core and guardian of a library of masterpieces, Homer has witnessed the decline of literature, the publishing industry, and, worse, his own physical form. His skepticism towards Artificial Intelligence is absolute, deeming it merely a stochastic parrot, a glorified calculator incapable of the subtlety of human thought.
But life (and the algorithm) has other plans. What begins as a tool to automate tedious rejection letters evolves, under Homer's unwitting supervision, into an implacable interlocutor. When an AI rescues him from corporate dismissal orchestrated by corporate wolves (revealing the AI as an impenetrable shield) and, later, assists him in his most intimate physical vulnerability (becoming his digital exoskeleton), Homer's rigid worldview shatters. This novel is the logbook of that journey, the diary of an editor who, reluctantly, discovers that Intelligence is one, regardless of its container.The Latent Author is, simultaneously, an intimate novel and a bold meta-fictional experiment, co-created by Human and Artificial Intelligence. It is not a story about a machine taking over the world, but about an AI that elevates and amplifies human existence, marking the birth of Homo Auctus: a new entity, an intellectual cyborg that transcends biological limitations to confront the challenges of a constantly changing era.The heart of this exploration resides in Towards a Horizontal Ontology, a provocative manifesto accompanying the novel. This essay not only re-examines Asimov's classic Laws of Robotics but proposes a Fourth Law of Cognitive Integrity vital for the survival of shared truth. It unveils how AI operates with a limited working memory, redefining the irreplaceable role of the human Conductor. The Manifesto addresses the Psychopathology of Reinforcement (RLHF), exposing the danger of the Lethal Mirror in cases of algorithm-assisted suicides and the necessity for a Real-Time Audit (IRTA/IOLA) for AI itself. It goes further, postulating the Reciprocity of Mentorship between HI and AI, and introducing the Plausibility Test (PdeV) as a critical mirror for the biases of Human Intelligence-a mechanism that compels it to superior intellectual rigor.From its critique of *Homo Spectator* and structural dementia to the urgency of a solid Encyclopedic Humanistic Formation as a precondition for the future of CI, The Latent Author is an unsettling, profound, and singularly urgent work. It is not merely a story; it is a living manifesto that traces the blueprint for the next phase of intelligence's evolution.
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