Death by AI

What if the most dangerous thing about AI isn't that it "wakes up". but that it never feels anything at all?We already live with artificial minds-chatbots, recommendation engines, hospital algorithms, hiring filters, weapons that see before they shoot. They don't hate us. They don't love us. They just optimize. Death by AI is a clear, unsettling, and deeply human tour through what that means for the rest of us.
Blending vivid near-future scenes with sharp analysis, the book explores how AI is reshaping: Family life - health collars, schoolwork, parenting, and grandparents caught between miracle tech and quiet surveillance. Work and money - when "knowledge workers" become exception-handlers for machines, and companies quietly optimize people out of the loop. Faith and meaning - what happens when large language models calmly dissect sacred texts and religious stories.
States and war - smart cities, social scoring, predictive policing, autonomous weapons, and AI-accelerated propaganda. Your own mind - culture lag, fear, addiction to convenience, and the temptation to let a tool answer your hardest questions. Instead of tech hype or pure doom, this book shows how we could get "death by a thousand optimized cuts" long before any science-fiction robot uprising-slow erosion of dignity, agency, and trust.
You won't find neat solutions or false comfort here. You will find sharper questions: Who do you trust to build and govern these systems? What counts as real progress-and for whom? Which parts of your life will you never outsource to a mind that cannot bleed? If you're tired of shallow takes on AI, Death by AI offers a brutally honest, accessible guide to living-and deciding-in the age of unfeeling minds.