Not Built for You: Artificial Intelligence, Concentrated Power, and the Fight for What Money Cannot Buy

A work of serial nonfiction about how American institutions stopped seeing the people inside them. The legal frameworks, the corporate forms, the metrics — built to count money with precision and to be blind to almost everything else. AI inherited that blindness and is using it to transfer power from the people the systems act on to the corporations that own the systems. No one decided this. The structures were built to produce this outcome, and they are producing it. The book asks what we owe each other.

The doodlebug on the cover is doing what the book asks of its reader. Notice the small life in front of you. The capacity to see it is the foundation of every larger thing a person, or a society, can choose to build.