The question behind the project — asked of a machine, 26 September 2026
Who did
the thinking?
A machine can produce the result.
What happens to the person who
would have made it?
Omnibecoming is a book in development and an ongoing inquiry into how AI changes what we practise, what we leave to others, and who we become.
“I asked a machine
what book
I should write.”
More precisely, I asked it to consider everything it knew about me and give me the best idea. The wording matters. I was asking for something beyond a subject, an outline or a market opportunity.
I wanted a judgement about the relationship between a possible book and the person whose name would appear on its cover.
An exploratory draft written with AI assistance, 26 September 2026.
Not approved for publication.
The Machine
That Described Me
“What does it mean to ask a machine to tell us who we are?”
Exploratory — not approved for publication
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The Machine That Described Me
Making a Human Life in the Age of
Artificial Intelligence
Who
did the
thinking?
A book in development, stated plainly.
- What exists
An opening essay that asks the book’s central question: if AI can increasingly help us decide, create and interpret our lives, which forms of participation matter to the people we become?
- What does not exist
A finished manuscript, a contract, a release date, or a pre-order. None is implied, and none will be invented to fill the space.
The name is broad.
The work is specific.
Omnibecoming keeps one question in view: when assistance makes more things possible, how do we choose the forms of participation through which we want to become someone?
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