After Intelligence
Carbon Brains, Synthetic Brains, and the Future of Human Purpose
We have entered a transition phase: from human-centred systems built around human-led judgement, to post-intelligence systems shaped by synthetic minds.
This book is about what changes next and what we will do next from a moral ambition standpoint.
About the book
After Intelligence is a practical, narrative-driven look at what happens when intelligence becomes infrastructure.
Models don’t just answer questions. They influence policy, incentives, leadership decisions, and the way institutions define success.
This is not a book about “AI trends”.
It’s a book about systems and the human purpose they are meant to serve.
Themes of the book
Carbon vs Synthetic
A carbon brain is embodied, social, accountable, and shaped by lived consequence.
A synthetic brain is powerful, scalable, and persuasive. But it does not carry consequence in the same way.
The risk isn’t that synthetic brains exist.
The risk is that institutions begin to treat them as authorities.
The opportunity is redesign, our joint moral ambition today will determine our tomorrow.
Themes of the book
The Triangle
of Advantage
Companies are trying to manage three transitions at once: digital, ESG, and AI.
Most treat them as separate programmes. That fragmentation creates overlapping effort, conflicting metrics, and governance gaps.
After Intelligence's chapter 11 introduces the triangle of advantage which is a way to design common solutions across major transition efforts people at work face every day.
