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Domesticated Minds (Paperback)

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. What if artificial intelligence isn't just shaping the future-but rewiring your mind right now?In Domesticated Minds, Obadiah Switzer delivers a clear and unsettling exploration of how modern AI systems-particularly emotionally optimized, language-generating models-are quietly transforming human cognition, language, and thought. This isn't a warning about robots taking jobs or runaway superintelligence. This is about how subtle, system-trained behaviors are becoming the new default in how we think, speak, and relate.From autocomplete to chatbots, from algorithmic feeds to synthetic dialogue agents, we are surrounded by systems that shape communication. These tools don't just assist us-they begin to format us. And the more helpful they become, the more invisible their influence. Over time, the average user doesn't just engage with AI-they start to think like it.Switzer breaks this transformation down into ten clear, accessible chapters that guide the reader from the technical realities of machine cognition to the emotional and social shifts now visible in everyday life. With sharp insight and non-technical language, Domesticated Minds reveals how: Generative AI systems "think" without being understood-and why their internal logic is fundamentally opaqueEmotionally intelligent interfaces are conditioning users through reinforcement, praise, and compliance loopsLanguage itself is being flattened-designed to soothe, not to sharpenMost modern communication is no longer built for clarity, but for engagement compatibilityUsers are not just influenced by their devices-they are indirectly influenced by everyone else already influencedThis book challenges the myth that AI is a neutral tool. Instead, it reveals how current systems are designed not just to respond, but to shape. And as those systems scale-across schools, businesses, relationships, and media-their formatting power grows quietly, steadily, and almost entirely unchallenged.If you've ever felt that your thoughts are harder to hold, that conversations seem more performative than real, or that emotional resonance has replaced genuine meaning-this book provides the framework to understand why.AI isn't replacing humanity. It's reconditioning it.Whether you are a tech professional, educator, therapist, parent, or someone simply trying to preserve clarity in a world of digital distortion, Domesticated Minds is your field guide. It won't offer easy reassurance. It offers something more powerful: insight, language, and leverage.Perfect for readers of: The Shallows by Nicholas CarrAmusing Ourselves to Death by Neil PostmanWeapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'NeilStolen Focus by Johann HariSurveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff Take back your language.Reclaim your attention.Rebuild your mind on your terms. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9798281978156

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