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Teaching Silicon How to Feel reframes the whole AI
debate at a stroke. Instead of asking "how do we stop machines from harming
us?" we need to ask "what have we already normalised as acceptable harm?".
Richard David Hames argues that contemporary AI is being trained on a
civilisation, culture and history shaped by slavery, genocide, colonialism,
factory farming, drone warfare and extractive capitalism - and that without
deliberate intervention, those patterns of cruelty and indifference will be
quietly hard-wired into our most powerful systems.
Organised around 17 theoretically 'unresolvable' catalysts -
from The Inheritance of Cruelty and The Unseen Economies of Suffering to The
Algorithm of Oblivion and The Fractal of Indifference - the book probes the
darkest angels of human nature. Drawing on philosophy, political and economic
history, trauma science and critical technology studies, Hames shows how our
institutions encode violence, how that violence shows up in data and
infrastructures, and why AI magnifies whatever we feed it.
This is not another abstract ethics treatise or tech-doom
prophecy. Each catalyst is paired with a 'From Theory to Praxis' section that
speaks directly to people building and governing AI systems. Readers learn how
to:
curate
healing-focused and relational datasets
embed
epigenetic empathy checks and ethical audit loops
redesign
recommender systems to interrupt isolation feedback loops
construct
'metabolic vetoes' and governance architectures that refuse to profit from
suffering
Written in accessible, lucid prose for a general
audience, Teaching Silicon How to Feel will also inform software
engineers, machine learning practitioners, UX designers, policymakers,
ethicists, systems thinkers and anyone alarmed by the speed and direction of AI
deployment. It offers a stark diagnosis of our current trajectory and a
radical, practical invitation: to enlist AI as an ally in dismantling the
hidden economies of suffering that have defined the worst of human
civilisation.
Contents
Contents
BEGINNINGS
Catalyst 1. The Silence of the Species
Catalyst 2. The Inheritance of Cruelty
Catalyst 3. The Paradox of Civilisation
Catalyst 4. The Unseen Economies of Suffering
Catalyst 5. The Metaphysics of Evil
Catalyst 6. The Cannibalism of Memory
Catalyst 7. The Ontology of the Victim
Catalyst 8. The Parasite of Hope
Catalyst 9. When Earth Speaks
Catalyst 10. The Mirror of Isolation
Catalyst 11. The Algorithm of Oblivion
Catalyst 12. The Commodification of Wonder
Catalyst 13. The Fractal of Indifference
Catalyst 14. The Illusion of Embodiment
Catalyst 15. The Echo Chamber of Eternity
Catalyst 16. The Shadow Economy of Dreams
Catalyst 17. The Singularity of Silence
ENDINGS
