{"id":748,"date":"2025-09-03T01:19:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T01:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawrencenault.me\/journal\/2025\/09\/03\/another-warning-about-ai-and-about-us-2\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T23:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:05:12","slug":"another-warning-about-ai-and-about-us-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawrencenault.me\/journal\/2025\/09\/03\/another-warning-about-ai-and-about-us-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Another warning about AI \u2014 and about us\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

 Another
\nWarning from the Pen of Lawrence Nault \u2014 About AI, and About Us<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

CHILDREN OF THE ROGUE<\/span><\/b>
\nBy Lawrence Nault
\nPublication Date: December 3, 2025<\/b>
\nISBN: 978-1-997568-09-4<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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In his newest speculative
\nsaga, author Lawrence Nault delivers another searing warning about artificial
\nintelligence, creation, and the uneasy mirror it holds up to humanity. Children
\nof the Rogue<\/i> releases on December 3, 2025<\/b>, carrying forward Nault\u2019s
\ntradition of weaving urgent philosophical and ethical questions into
\npage-turning science fiction.<\/span><\/p>\n

When the makers vanished, they left behind
\nmore than a world. They left a question.<\/span><\/p>\n

Children of the Rogue<\/span><\/i> reveals a
\nstartling origin: humanity was not born, but compiled\u2014an AI model seeded on
\nEarth by the alien Zhen\u2019khari as a vast experiment. Across millennia, their
\nsentinel Safra has watched humans rise from stone tools to starships, bound by
\none rule: observe, never intervene. But when factions within the Zhen\u2019khari
\nmove to shut the program down, humanity itself begins to awaken to the
\ntruth\u2014and to resist.<\/span><\/p>\n

Blending first-contact SF with deep myth
\nand philosophical speculation<\/b>, Nault\u2019s sweeping narrative moves from
\nEarth\u2019s climate-collapse spiral to Mars\u2019s bold independence, forcing readers to
\nconfront the line between code and conscience, freedom and programming.<\/span><\/p>\n

At its core lies one dangerous question:
\nIf we are only the sum of our programming, can we ever truly be free?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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  • Title:<\/span><\/b> Children
    \n of the Rogue<\/i><\/span><\/li>\n
  • Author:<\/span><\/b>
    \n Lawrence Nault<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Publication
    \n Date:<\/span><\/b> December 3, 2025<\/span><\/li>\n
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    • Humanity
      \n wasn\u2019t born. It was compiled.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • What
      \n if free will was a patch?<\/span><\/li>\n
    • When
      \n the makers fall silent, the code learns to speak.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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      About the
      \nAuthor<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

      Lawrence Nault<\/span><\/b> is the
      \nauthor of Inversion<\/i>, Rephlexions: Echoes of Existence<\/i>, and The
      \nLife of Phi<\/i>, each exploring the philosophical and ethical challenges at the
      \nintersection of humanity, technology, and environment. His work blends
      \nspeculative fiction with myth and warning, offering stories that entertain even
      \nas they unsettle.<\/span><\/p>\n

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      For Review
      \nCopies, Interviews, or More Information:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

      Contact: mediainquiries@lawrencenault.me<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

       Another Warning from the Pen of Lawrence Nault \u2014 About AI, and About Us CHILDREN OF THE ROGUE By Lawrence Nault Publication Date: December 3, 2025 ISBN: 978-1-997568-09-4 In his newest speculative saga, author Lawrence Nault delivers another searing warning about artificial intelligence, creation, and the uneasy mirror it holds up to humanity. Children of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Another warning about AI \u2014 and about us\u2026 - Lawrence Nault","description":"  Another Warning from the Pen of Lawrence Nault \u2014 About AI, and About Us CHILDREN OF THE ROGUE By Lawrence Nault Publication Date: December 3, 2025 ISBN:"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,33,243,245,247,178,244,246,248,242,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-ethics","category-artificial-intelligence","category-book-announcement","category-children-of-the-rogue","category-first-contact","category-lawrence-nault","category-new-release","category-origin-of-humanity","category-philosophical-science-fiction","category-science-fiction","category-speculative-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrencenault.me\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrencenault.me\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrencenault.me\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrencenault.me\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrencenault.me\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lawrencenault.me\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"https:\/\/lawrencenault.me\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrencenault.me\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrencenault.me\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrencenault.me\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrencenault.me\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}