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In Good and Evil in the Age of Simulation: Artificial Intelligence, Megatrends and the Struggle for Human Agency, Christman brings that question into an era of artificial intelligence, adaptive algorithms, synthetic media, and increasingly automated decision systems.\nThe book is not primarily about what AI can do. It is about how people, institutions, and technologies decide what counts as betterâand what can happen when goals such as efficiency, safety, access, stability, or reduced suffering are separated from truth, proportion, responsibility, dignity, and the freedom to choose.\nChristman begins with humanity's long argument over the good. He moves through Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism, Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Hindu thought, the Abrahamic traditions, secular humanism, and Enlightenment philosophyânot to collapse their differences, but to ask why certain moral disciplines repeatedly reappear across cultures and centuries.\nFrom that foundation, the inquiry turns to evil not simply as cruelty or catastrophe, but as corruption: deception, appetite without restraint, power without conscience, institutional capture, and the moral inversion that can occur when a partial good is treated as an absolute one.\nThe discussion then moves into the age of simulation, where algorithms can shape attention, synthetic media can blur the boundary between event and representation, and automated systems can influence the choices people believe are available to them.\nâThe central question is not whether technology becomes more intelligent. It is whether human beings remain capable of judgment, responsibility, and refusal when intelligent systems become increasingly persuasive, useful, and powerful.â\nThat approach places the book between two familiar extremes. It does not treat AI as salvation, and it does not assume technological catastrophe is inevitable. Instead, Christman asks how powerful systems should be judged, who remains accountable for their objectives and outcomes, and whether assistance can expand human capability without quietly replacing human judgment.\nThe project grew out of years of writing on Flight Plan and Christman's move into speculative fiction through the Singularity Drift series. Fiction provided a way to explore AI, governance, control, resistance, and emerging forms of intelligence through characters and consequences. The nonfiction work demanded a different discipline: extensive research, comparison across traditions, citations, notes, and repeated testing of the book's central thesis from different angles.\nFor readers approaching these questions through faith, philosophy, secular thought, technology, or public life, the book is intended as an inquiry rather than a prescribed conclusion. Its focus is moral discrimination: how to recognize when a good objective becomes distorted, when a system begins to substitute optimization for judgment, and when individual responsibility is being transferred to institutions or machines.\nThe argument ultimately returns to the individual. Human agency, in Christman's framing, is not simply the presence of options. It is the capacity to judge, to accept responsibility, to dissent, and to refuseâeven when a system is efficient, popular, or confident that it knows what is best.\nAbout JG Christman\nJG Christman is a former career naval aviator and leadership consultant turned writer whose work spans blogging, speculative fiction, technology, and researched nonfiction. His writing examines the intersection of emerging technology, institutions, moral reasoning, and individual agency. Good and Evil in the Age of Simulation: Artificial Intelligence, Megatrends and the Struggle for Human Agency brings those interests together in a single inquiry into how humanity defines the goodâand who may increasingly gain the power to define it for us.\nThe book is available at:\nhttps://a.co/d/08CKmKGQ\nFor review copies, interview requests, or additional information, please contact:\nJG Christman\nBrightKey PR\njchristman@dhrglobal.com\nLegal Disclaimer:\nEIN Presswire provides this news content \"as is\" without warranty of any kind. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. 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