Beyond AGI: Volume I: From Artificial Intelligence to the First Human-Machine Interface

Book I: Beyond AGI, Volume I: From Artificial Intelligence to the First Human-Machine Interface explores the long human dream of creating intelligence outside ourselves and follows that dream from myth, logic, and early computation into modern machine learning, AGI research, and the first systems that appear to approach genuine generality. It examines not only the technical road from narrow AI to broader machine intelligence, but also the profound ethical, economic, and philosophical questions that arise once machines begin to reason, model, and act with increasing autonomy. The volume then pivots toward neuroscience, showing how the search for AGI and the study of the brain begin to converge. Its culminating movement is the opening of the human-machine bridge itself: first through reading neural activity and then through writing back to the brain. By the end of Book I, intelligence is no longer something humanity has merely built in the external world. It has become an intimate frontier, and the stage is set for a future in which mind and machine begin to merge. Read more