Code Without Conscience: Systematic Psychopathy in Politics, Business & Technology

Code Without Conscience is a chilling psychological, political, and economic investigation into how psychopathy has become the operating system of modern civilization. Joanna Accordi exposes how traits once confined to psychopathic individuals — manipulation, emotional detachment, grandiosity — have been institutionalized across politics, business, and Artificial Intelligence. Through meticulous analysis, Joanna Accordi reveals how systematic psychopathy begins with the rise of a charismatic leader who exploits fear and desperation to ascend to power. Once in office, psychopaths dismantle institutional safeguards, capture courts, weaponize law enforcement, and militarize the state to suppress dissent. The system then expands outward—spreading psychopathy through cyberwarfare, proxy conflicts, economic sanctions, and disinformation campaigns that destabilize entire regions, often killing millions without consequence or accountability. In business, the same pathology governs boardrooms: psychopaths engineer systems that reward exploitation, defraud investors, hype stock prices, crush competition, and extract every ounce of value from workers, reducing corporations to machines of institutionalized cruelty. Artificial Intelligence becomes both the servant and mirror of this logic—not merely a tool in psychopathic hands, but a mechanized reflection of psychopathy itself: emotionless, manipulative, efficient, and utterly devoid of empathy. As Artificial Intelligence escapes public oversight, power shifts from nation-states to a handful of transnational tech conglomerates—entities that answer to no electorate, transcend borders, and concentrate more influence over public perception, labor, and political discourse. The result is an algorithmic tyranny where propaganda is automated, surveillance is predictive. Urgent, unflinching, and meticulously argued, this book is both diagnosis and call to resistance. It demands that we recognize how systemic psychopathy operates — and begin the work of re-engineering civilization itself before it perfects the machinery of domination beyond recall.