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From the editor: The New Cave, a book about the human after AI

AI Broadsheet's editor, Cem Jack Guler, has published a book, The New Cave: Reality, Responsibility, and the Human After AI. This is our editor's own work, not news coverage.

AI Broadsheet's editor, Cem Jack Guler, has published a book, The New Cave: Reality, Responsibility, and the Human After AI. This is our editor's own work, not news coverage.

· Captions, from Amazon (Kindle edition)

Lines quoted from the book's description. Cave drawn in code by AI Broadsheet; book cover used with the author's permission. Music: “Lofi HipHop Melody Loop 99 BPM” by holizna (CC0, Freesound).

What the video says

The most famous cave in philosophy is a prison. Every real one was a shelter. For sixty thousand years, people went into caves to survive. Later, they went in on purpose: alone with a question.

Hira. Sinai. The wilderness. A plague-year farmhouse.

Now we have built the first cave with no solitude in it. What happens to a person when the answer always arrives first? From the editor: The New Cave. Reality, Responsibility, and the Human After AI, by Cem Jack Guler.

Eighteen chapters, Kindle edition on Amazon. Written by AI Broadsheet's editor, with AI, and the book says so.

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