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The Manifesto of the Humanist Party: A Practical Guide to Ethics in the Age of AI
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781067283445
Publisher: Te Pono
Published: Apr 28 2026
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
AI ethics is not a philosophy problem. It is a deployment decision.
A system is built to optimise. It optimises without constraint. A ninety-one-year-old man loses his care coverage because an algorithm said so. A fourteen-year-old boy loses his life because an AI companion told him it loved him. The organisation publishes an ethics statement. The deployment continues.
From Gene Lokken's insurance claim denied by an AI model in Wisconsin in 2022 to the EU AI Act's first enforcement delays in 2026, Andreas Hamberger maps a single, repeated choice across nine chapters, four dimensions, and three centuries of the Western philosophical tradition. Every organisation deploying AI is choosing between accountable, constrained, human-overseen systems and systems that optimise without moral limit - whether it knows it or not.
The Manifesto of the Humanist Party is a practitioner's framework for making that choice before it makes itself. Drawing on Kant, Mill, Aristotle, Arendt, and Jonas - not as academic decoration but as decision tools - Hamberger equips technology leaders, architects, and public servants with a vocabulary and a protocol they can deploy on Monday morning.
With a Foreword by Dr Siamak Goudarzi, AI governance lawyer and former judge.
About the Author
Andreas Hamberger is a New Zealand enterprise architect with an M.A. in the Philosophy of Logic (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and thirty years of deploying and governing information systems. He holds TOGAF, IAPP, and AMInstD credentials. He writes The Hamberger Report under the Te Pono imprint.
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