“The New Argonauts: An AI Odyssey”

Where the Short Walk Ends, the Odyssey Begins

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“The New Argonauts: An AI Odyssey” by James Tuke

Why read this eBook?

“A Short Walk in AI” mapped the foothills. This book, published in November 2026,  follows one person up the mountain. It is a short novel set in the AI landscape as it stands in late 2026. Arthur, a senior forecaster in the City of London, watches an AI system reproduce three weeks of his work in forty-five seconds. Then it finds the risk he missed. He now has to work out what he is for.

• If you are in business: see the professional unbundling from inside a City firm: what agentic AI does to expert judgement, and why the human in the loop matters more, not less.
• If you are a general reader: follow Arthur from the trading floor to a crisis room three floors below ground, and on into questions about biology, consciousness and the limits of silicon.
• For everyone: get a clear, honest introduction to AI alignment, and a clearly marked line between what the evidence supports and where speculation begins.

As with the first book, this was written in collaboration with AI (Gemini and Claude). Given the subject, that seemed an appropriate way to write it.

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