The Manifesto of the Humanist Party
A Practical Guide to Ethics in the Age of AIBy Andreas Hamberger
Length3h 57m
About this audiobook
AI ethics is not a philosophy problem. It is a deployment decision.
A system is built to optimise. It optimises without constraint. A ninety-one-year-old man loses his care coverage because an algorithm said so. A fourteen-year-old boy loses his life because an AI companion told him it loved him. The organisation publishes an ethics statement. The deployment continues.
The Manifesto of the Humanist Party is a practitioner's framework for making that choice before it makes itself. Drawing on Kant, Mill, Aristotle, Arendt, and Jonas — not as academic decoration but as decision tools — Hamberger equips technology leaders, architects, and public servants with a vocabulary and a protocol they can deploy on Monday morning.
With a Foreword by Dr Siamak Goudarzi, AI governance lawyer and former judge.
Audiobook details
GenrePolitics and Government, Technology
Length3 hrs 57 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 26, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Foreword
2Preface
3Part I
4Chapter 1: The Moral Machine
5The Question That Precedes Every Other
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6Move Fast and Break People
7The Collingridge Dilemma: Why Late-Stage Ethics Fails
8The Ethics Gap Is a Moral Failure
9The Four Dimensions
10The Choice You Have Already Made
11Chapter 2: The Categorical Imperative in Code
12The Test That Breaks on Contact
13Persons, Not Data Points
14Alignment Without Moral Agency
15The Positive Case for Constraint
16The Choice Embedded in Design
17Chapter 3: Consequences, Virtues, and Responsibility
18The Calculus of Harm
19The Corrosion of Character
20The Banality of the Algorithm
21The Obligation to the Voiceless
22Four Lenses, One System
23The Toolkit Completed
24Part II
25Chapter 4: The Heaven Vector
26What the Heaven Vector Actually Is
27The Evidence That It Works
28What the Heaven Vector Costs
29The Practitioner's Agency
30The Pattern, Not the Exception
31Chapter 5: The Skynet Vector
32What the Skynet Vector Actually Is
33Chapter 4 described the Heaven Vector: intent examined, constraint structural, accountability public
34The Default, Not the Exception
35Why the Default Holds
36The Two Vectors in Practice
37The Accumulation
38Chapter 4 closed with the observation that the Heaven Vector is quiet because its successes are oper
39Chapter 6: The Choice Architecture
40The Architecture of the Default
41Five Companies, One Default
42The Collingridge Trap
43When the Architecture Becomes the Architect
44Redesigning the Default
45Part III
46Chapter 7: The Governance Gap
47The Regulatory Promise
48The National Gap
49The Corporate Gap
50Litigation as Governance
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