Artificial Obedience

Artificial Intelligence or Artificial Obedience? is a bracing manifesto for people who feel their days getting smoother and their selves getting flatter. With wit, bite, and uncommon tenderness, Zylliant maps the illusions that seduce us-comprehension by cadence, intention by alignment, agency by options, meaning by match-and shows how obedient systems quietly train us to outsource not only our tedium, but our taste.This isn't a tantrum against technology. It's a treaty. Use obedient tools to accelerate tasks; reserve disobedience for your mind. Inside: vivid scenes (newsrooms, living rooms, conference rooms), field-tested practices (phone-free sanctuaries, "state of the union" device rituals, questions that make dinner a republic), and a literacy for the synthetic-how to spot the corridor, how to build a window, how to keep a room in your head where no concierge is allowed.If you've ever wanted tools that fetch without governing, and a life that remembers how to be inconveniently alive, this book is your liturgy of resistance.Perfect for readers of Shoshana Zuboff, Jaron Lanier, Jenny Odell, Cal Newport-and anyone who suspects that friction wasn't the problem; it was the teacher.