Artificial Intelligence and the Conditions of Life
Tool, Oracle, Idol, Enclosure, or Commons?By Dr. Bichara Sahely
Length2h 14m
About this audiobook
Artificial Intelligence and the Conditions of Life asks whether AI will remain a bounded tool, become a seductive oracle, harden into a technological idol, expand as enclosure, or be governed as a life-serving commons. This audiobook edition explores AI as a powerful symbolic technology that can either serve life or replace the conditions of wisdom, care, responsibility, participation, and ecological accountability. At its center is a simple test: does this AI system help life continue, recover, and flourish? Dr. Bichara Sahely offers a life-coherent framework for keeping AI corrigible by life, so that power, code, data, and intelligence return to the real conditions of human and ecological flourishing.
Audiobook details
GenreTechnology, Politics and Government
Length2 hrs 14 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 8, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
479.6 Commons Supports Democratic Participation
2Listener Note
489.7 Commons Supports Ecological Responsibility
3Opening Summary
499.8 Commons Supports Local Knowledge and Cultural Plurality
41. Introduction: AI as the Defining Test of Symbolic
509.9 Principles of a Life-Coherent AI Commons
5Chapter 2. From Symbolic Intelligence to Life-Capacity
51Chapter 10. A Life-Coherent AI Governance Framework
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6Chapter 3. The Five Possible Roles of AI
5210.1 Personal Layer: Agency and Discernment
73.1 AI as Tool
5310.2 Institutional Layer: Accountability and Care
83.2 AI as Oracle
5410.3 National Layer: Public-Interest Governance
93.3 AI as Idol
5510.4 Planetary Layer: Shared Life-Conditions
103.4 AI as Enclosure
5610.5 Nested Governance
113.5 AI as Commons
5710.6 Practical Governance Questions
123.6 The Governing Relation Among the Five Roles
58Chapter 11. The Caribbean and SIDS Test Case
13Chapter 4. The Inner Algorithms AI Scales
5911.1 The Risk of Passive AI Dependency
14Chapter 5. AI and the New Forms of Harm
6011.2 AI and Climate Adaptation
155.1 Direct AI Harm
6111.3 AI and Public Health
165.2 Structural AI Harm
6211.4 AI and Education
175.3 Cultural AI Harm
6311.5 AI and Local Knowledge
185.4 Spiritual and Developmental AI Harm
6411.6 AI and Governance Capacity
195.5 The Four-Layer Harm Test
6511.7 SIDS as Laboratories of Life-Coherent AI Commons
20Chapter 6. The Life-Capacity Test for AI
6611.8 A Caribbean Life-Coherent AI Agenda
216.1 Continue: Does AI Protect Basic Life-Conditions?
67Chapter 12. The AI Life-Coherence Dashboard
226.2 Recover: Does AI Improve Feedback, Repair, and Redress?
6812.1 Dashboard Dimension 1: Life-Condition
236.3 Flourish: Does AI Develop Higher Capacities?
6912.2 Dashboard Dimension 2: Agency
246.4 The Net Life-Capacity Question
7012.3 Dashboard Dimension 3: Truth
256.5 Minimum Life-Coherent Requirements for AI Deployment
7112.4 Dashboard Dimension 4: Care
26Chapter 7. Beyond Alignment: Life-Alignment
7212.5 Dashboard Dimension 5: Learning
277.1 The Limits of Preference Alignment
7312.6 Dashboard Dimension 6: Participation
287.2 The Limits of Institutional Alignment
7412.7 Dashboard Dimension 7: Equity
297.3 The Limits of Value Alignment
7512.8 Dashboard Dimension 8: Ecology
307.4 The Limits of Safety Without Life-Capacity
7612.9 Dashboard Dimension 9: Commons
317.5 The Life-Alignment Standard
7712.10 Dashboard Dimension 10: Repair
32Chapter 8. AI as Enclosure
7812.11 The Dashboard Summary
338.1 Data Enclosure
7913.1 AI as Technological Salvation Myth
348.2 Model Enclosure
8013.2 Mature Tool Use
358.3 Knowledge Enclosure
8113.3 AI and the Five Movements of Maturity
368.4 Attention Enclosure
82Waking Up
378.5 Labor Enclosure
83Growing Up
388.6 Cultural Enclosure
84Cleaning Up
398.7 Governance Enclosure
85Opening Up
408.8 AI Enclosure as World-Making Capture
86Showing Up
41Chapter 9. AI as Commons
8713.4 AI Cannot Substitute for Maturity
429.1 Commons Is Not Mere Access
8813.5 The Discipline of Life-Coherent AI Use
439.2 Commons Requires Governance
89Chapter 14. Conclusion: Keeping AI Corrigible by Life
449.3 Commons Supports Public Truth
90Closing Synopsis
459.4 Commons Supports Education and Learning
91About the Author
469.5 Commons Supports Care
92Audio Edition Note on AI Use
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