Author and AI consultant
Sotiris Spyrou
I take complex systems apart to find out how they really work, then write about it. Books on AI, business and the future, and a science-fiction trilogy that argues the same ideas in a different register.
Out now: Grift, Inc.
AI and the future
Ethics, power and strategy, written for the people who carry the risk when an AI system goes wrong.
The Ulysses Universe
A science-fiction trilogy set in a stranger retelling of the Odyssey. The fiction and the argument are the same idea, told twice.
Verity AI
The consultancy behind the books. Responsible AI and search, for businesses staying visible as AI reshapes discovery.
The books
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The Substrate
The case that reality is computation, and what that would mean for everything.
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Ethical AI
When an AI system causes harm, the law looks for a person, not a model.
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AI Moats
Spending the most on AI compute is not a moat. It is a cost.
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TRANSFORM
Most AI transformations fail. Not on the technology.
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The Blinding
To save his son, Ulysses blinded a god. Now the entire pantheon wants him dead.
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ForthcomingThe Void Between
The deeper they travel, the more the Void takes.
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ForthcomingThe Return
Coming home was supposed to end the war. It started a new one.
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The Citation Economy
Your search traffic didn't fall because you did something wrong. The deal changed.
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The Slop Machine
The hard question was never could. It was should.
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Grift, Inc.
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