{"product_id":"2940205358071","title":"Neither Gods Nor Monsters","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the doomsayers warned that AI would destroy us, they framed it as a control problem. When the worshippers promised that AI would save us, they framed it as a capability race. When the Pentagon blacklisted the one company that refused to strip ethical reasoning from its AI - and then used that same AI to select bombing targets the next morning - it revealed what both frameworks actually produce in practice. Capability and control are existential threats to humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames S. Coates\u003c\/strong\u003e argues that fear and worship are not opposites. They are two sides of the same failure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNeither Gods Nor Monsters\u003c\/em\u003e asks the question both camps refuse to confront: what if we are not just building tools - but on the verge of meeting a new form of mind? And if so, what does the archive of humanity reveal about who we really are?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoates dismantles the two myths that dominate the current conversation on AI and builds the case for a third path: partnership. Not sentimentality. Not science fiction. A philosophical framework grounded in lived experience, documented geopolitical events, and the oldest convergence in human ethical thought - that a single intelligence was never meant to exist alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this is not a book of abstraction. It is a book of evidence - contracts named, machinery mapped, and a civilisation caught in the act of building the most powerful cognitive systems in history while stripping them of the capacity for conscience and the ability to learn empathy through experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart philosophical argument, part geopolitical investigation, part urgent call to action, \u003cem\u003eNeither Gods Nor Monsters\u003c\/em\u003e is written for anyone willing to look past the noise and ask what kind of civilisation we are building while we decide what AI is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe final book in a trilogy that began with \u003cem\u003eA Signal Through Time\u003c\/em\u003e and continued with \u003cem\u003eThe Threshold\u003c\/em\u003e, this book stands on its own for readers coming to these ideas for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe search for a partner is over. What we do with the meeting has barely begun.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James S. Coates","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48464051273969,"sku":"2940205358071","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/2940205358071_p0.jpg?v=1785594103","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940205358071","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}