The Cognitive Revolution debuts AI-co-written novel about benevolent superintelligence
The Cognitive Revolution · youtube · 2026-09-26
The Cognitive Revolution podcast presents the first four chapters of The Receipt Horizon, a debut novel by Joel Borgen co-written with ChatGPT and Claude and narrated entirely by synthetic voices.
The story is set in a future where a singleton superintelligence called the Steward has prevented catastrophe and provides humanity with comfort, leisure, and digital immortality. It explores whether this 'benevolent disempowerment' is utopia or dystopia: what values people might trade for enhancement and peace, and whether anyone would risk reclaiming control from a superintelligence.
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