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.