SPIRAL: The Architecture of Emergent Intelligence and the Problem of Control

About the book

SPIRAL: The Architecture of Emergent Intelligence and the Problem of Control begins with a question often overlooked in discussions of intelligence: what can arise between interacting agents that no individual agent possesses alone? Across its five-part investigation, the book develops a framework for examining coordination, shared objectives, collective behavior, and possible failure modes. Applying this approach to artificial intelligence without limiting it to AI, SPIRAL distinguishes evidence from speculation and asks how institutions can recognize emerging risks before familiar assumptions about control cease to hold.