Artificial cognition is right around the corner. We will soon be able to create autonomous, super-intelligence machines. What architecture will we use to build them? This book teaches you to think like a cognitive architect, a designer of artificial cognitive entities.

From microservices to loops, and from heuristics to self-correction, this book lays out a comprehensive set of first principles for artificial cognition. The world is too complex to settle on a singular moral framework, therefore our task is to create machines that can truly think, contemplate their actions, decisions, and even their own existence.

We need not fear a thoughtful machine, but a mindless one.

David Shapiro has been experimenting with deep learning for more than a decade. Meanwhile, his professional experience as a cloud systems engineer has taught him to design massively complex systems. All of this combined with his study of philosophy, psychology, and spirituality to create this book. This follows his other books: Benevolent By Design and Natural Language Cognitive Architecture.