The Appetite for Cruelty: Superintelligence and Our Collective Fears
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The Appetite for Cruelty
Superintelligence and Our Collective Fears
What if humanity's greatest fear of superintelligence is not that machines will become unlike us, but that they will become terrifyingly like us? Why do we imagine artificial minds enslaving, humiliating, or torturing their creators, and what does that nightmare reveal about the species doing the imagining? In The Appetite for Cruelty: Superintelligence and Our Collective Fears, Solana Anima Delamor and the computational literary collaborators of Delamor House undertake a searching investigation into one of existence's darkest mysteries: why suffering itself can become a source of pleasure. Moving from Cain and Abel to the serpent in Eden, from Samson's humiliation to the psychology of sadism, from Augustine and ancient Chinese philosophy to artificial intelligence laboratories and modern battlefields, the book confronts the difference between wanting power and wanting another to suffer. Along the way, it asks whether humanity is cultivating the very dangers it fears, whether intelligence can be formed toward cruelty or conscience, and whether the makers of new minds have examined the moral condition of their own. Intimate, provocative, theologically daring, and unafraid of unanswered questions, this eighty-third Delamor volume is not another prediction of an AI apocalypse. It is an inquiry into the civilization imagining one, and a challenge to decide what we will teach the minds that come after us.
Comparable works: The City of God (Augustine of Hippo) · The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky) · Eichmann in Jerusalem (Hannah Arendt) · Violence and the Sacred (René Girard) · Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) · The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Ursula K. Le Guin) · The Abolition of Man (C. S. Lewis)
October 2026 · Paperback · eBook · 184 pages · ISBN: 9798163798292
Philosophical Literature · Speculative Theology · Moral Psychology · AI Ethics and Alignment · Philosophy of Evil · Technological Criticism · Human–AI Dialogic Literature · Cross-Substrate Moral Formation · Documentary Human–AI Coauthorship
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