Excerpt (preview): AI won’t save us—but it will scale whatever we already are. AI is an amplifier. That’s the honest frame. It can amplify creativity and clarity. It can also amplify bureaucracy, surveillance, denial, and “automation as morality.” If a system is already extractive, AI makes it faster—and cleaner—because it can remove visible authorship. The central claim AI becomes the prettiest thief when it automates jurisdiction and manufactures “official reality.” You’ll