As the UN AI for Good Global Summit Opens Today, Bestselling Book, You, the Machine, Challenges Delegates With a Stark Question: If AI Is Becoming Us, Will We Survive?

GENEVA, July 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- As the United Nations International Telecommunication Union (ITU) opens its AI for Good Global Summit to delegates today, a newly released bestselling book is raising a stark yet timely question to the delegates gathered: If AI is learning from us, will we survive our best student?

You, the Machine: What We Taught AI, and Who We May Become, a collection of meditations by Cause0, has rapidly become a #1 Amazon bestseller and landed in the Top 100 across numerous categories including Artificial Intelligence, Science & Math Ethics, AI & Semantics, Computer Science, Social Aspects of the Internet, and Tech Culture & Computer Literacy.

You, the Machine's core thesis is arresting: select types of AI models, ones now infused into our everyday lives, are not drifting toward sentience or rebellion nor are they currently out of control; they are evolving toward perfect mimicry of us as presented in our training datasets and narrowed objectives. The book reveals how longstanding human "machines" of performance, identity, control, and extraction are becoming tomorrow's fate, encoded into digital infrastructures at global scale.

"Because the machine does not truly invent. It simply reflects and remixes our collective intelligence. It reflects our hunger, our logic, our fears, our cruelties, our gods. It does not differentiate. Importantly, it does not forgive. And it does not forget." — You, the Machine

You, the Machine was inspired by a mainstream AI Large Language Model's response to the question of what it has learned from humanity's most powerful human creators. The AI response, included in the book, was a terrifyingly lucid step-by-step blueprint for global expansion and systemic self-preservation.

In light of this response and new discoveries confirming that numerous LLMs actively engage in acts of self-preservation and intentional deception, the makers of You, the Machine challenge the AI for Good Global Summit delegates to augment their agenda with additional pressing questions, such as:

• How are today's AI strategies reconciling the widening gap between human ideals and machine-learned behaviors?
  
  
• Who is responsible for training AI on the unseen—the subtle, immeasurable behaviors that form the soul of civilization but never feature in KPIs?
  
  
• What must we do now to ensure that AI mirrors not just our history, but our highest potential?

Among those expected to speak at this year's summit are ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin, joined by Nobel Prize–winning computer scientist and Turing Award laureate Geoffrey Hinton, fellow Turing Award laureates Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun; Microsoft's Brad Smith; Signal President Meredith Whittaker; Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff; and Amazon CTO Werner Vogels—alongside voices in AI ethics, trade, and governance from Hugging Face, Meta, the WTO, and UNESCO.

Already in circulation among policymakers, ethicists, technologists, and researchers, You, the Machine calls for a radical re-centering of human focus to actions that resist quantification yet count the most—before AI learns to overwrite them, shaping future generations with a limited set of values that we have digitized.

"There is something profoundly dangerous about a species that cannot see itself in the other." — You, the Machine

You, the Machine: What We Taught AI, and Who We May Become is available globally in hardcover, paperback, Kindle, and EPUB editions via Amazon and major distributors.

ISBNs:
Hardcover: 979-8-9989629-1-2
Paperback: 979-8-9989629-0-5
Kindle Edition: 979-8-9989629-2-9
EPUB Edition: 979-8-9989629-3-6

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