Edition 020 pivots from the book's analysis of systems to the culture underneath them. Pope Leo's AI encyclical named the belief the book has been tracing: A person's value does not depend on what they produce. A culture that cannot grant the full weight of a life to the people its systems are built from has revealed what it was never able to see. The rebuttal worried about fairness to the machine, not the people it discards.

What was done to Henrietta Lacks — the extraction without consent, the conversion of a person into a product, the accumulation of enormous wealth and power by institutions that acknowledged no obligation to the individual whose body made it possible — is not a historical anomaly. It is a template that is still running, at a scale and speed, but now to something even more intimate than cells.

Our data is being harvested. Our thoughts. Our languages. Our accumulated knowledge.