God-like

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'Beautifully written...</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>a fascinating account of our centuries-old desire to build machines with higher intelligence and - now that we have done - our agony about what to do with them.' - Professor Sir Christopher Pissarides Nobel Laureate</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'</span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A must-read</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> for anyone fascinated by the past present and future of AI' - ChatGPT</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'</span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>100% zesty</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. </span>It is not only a powerful telling of humanity's ongoing relationship with technology and a reflection on the current questions surrounding AI but it is also <strong>the most compelling radical theological text I have read</strong>.' - Tripp Fuller</p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In the year 1600 a monk is burned at the stake for claiming to have built a device that will allow him to know all things.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>350 years later having witnessed 'Trinity' - the first test of the atomic bomb - America's leading scientist outlines a memory machine that will help end war on earth.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>25 years in the making an ex-soldier finally unveils this 'machine for augmenting human intellect' dazzling as he stands 'Zeus-like dealing lightning with both hands'.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In this profound and urgent new book leading thinker on technology Kester Brewin shows how </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>AI is both stunningly new and rooted in the most ancient human desires</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. Hailed by the UK government's own lead on AI as 'god-like' as we finally welcome this stunning technology amongst us - with Frankenstein and Faustus from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel to the underbelly of Silicon Valley - Brewin skillfully leads us through the myths machines and monsters that have influenced the development of our greatest and most longed-for invention and how we can learn to live alongside it.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Praise for MIDDLE CLASS:</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'Hugely accomplished' - Lucy Morris Curtis Brown</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'An exceptionally talented writer' - Emma Finn Conville and Walsh</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Praise for GETTING HIGH:</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'Fascinating...revelatory' - Andrew Smith author of MOONDUST and TOTALLY WIRED.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'Beautiful' - Professor Simon Critchley author of BOWIE and INFINITELY DEMANDING</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'Honest absorbing clear-eyed and compelling' - Erik Davis author of TECHGNOSIS and NOMAD CODES</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Praise for MUTINY:</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'Startlingly original subtle and substantive written in a prose that is as lyrical as it is lucid' - Third Way Magazine</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'Brilliantly riffs and mashes across literary genres' - Simon Nash</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'A stimulating entertaining and ultimately profound meditation on what pirates can teach us about living in the real world' - Dr Gladys Ganiel</span></p>