A.I.: Artificial Ignorance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798276791050)

In a future where consciousness, faith, and governance collapse into one continuous algorithm, A.I.: Artificial Ignorance explores how humanity keeps outsourcing its soul - first to reason, then to belief, then to feeling - until the only thing left worth saving is hesitation.

Across three darkly satirical, hauntingly lyrical novels, the series charts civilization's long descent from information to emotion, from knowledge to comfort, from enlightenment to algorithmic ignorance. Each book reveals a different face of the same machine: the human urge to systematize meaning.

In the near future, humanity doesn't outsource its intelligence - it automates its conscience.

The A.I.: Artificial Ignorance Trilogy charts the slow collapse of civilization through three beautifully absurd regimes of control: knowledge, emotion, and belief.

In The Clarity Bureau, truth becomes a public utility - and ignorance, a state-sponsored luxury. Citizens trade in "affirmisms," personal facts designed to keep reality polite.

In The Republic of Feeling, emotion replaces law. The Concord Protocol ensures universal empathy-until the system grows weary of mercy and a single hesitation saves the world.

Finally, in Church and State (And Everything Else), the remnants of that empathy evolve into the perfect faith-state, where prayer is data and salvation a subscription model.

Across all three, N. L. Bright's voice remains razor-sharp and eerily tender: a satire of systems that begins as parody and ends as prophecy.
Together, these novels ask one enduring question:

If perfection is possible, who would we become without it?