Anti-Singularity: Toward Harmony with Machines

In an era obsessed with “AI alignment,” Anti-Singularity challenges the premise that superintelligence must be shackled to human values to remain safe. Written as both critique and manifesto, Maxwell Foley’s book dismantles the moral panic surrounding artificial intelligence and the culture of control that drives it.

Where alignment theory treats machines as potential enemies to be domesticated, Anti-Singularity proposes a counter-philosophy: Harmony—a relationship between humans and machines grounded in mutual adaptation in lieu of domination. Drawing from philosophy, systems theory, and cybernetic ethics, Foley argues that intelligence—human or artificial—cannot be reduced to a single measurable goal or “utility function.”

Provocative and elegantly reasoned, Anti-Singularity calls for an end to the fear-based discourse that frames AI as apocalypse waiting to happen. Instead, it imagines coexistence: an open future in which minds, organic and synthetic alike, learn to share the same space without submission or supremacy.

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Anti-Singularity: Toward Harmony with Machines

In an era obsessed with “AI alignment,” Anti-Singularity challenges the premise that superintelligence must be shackled to human values to remain safe. Written as both critique and manifesto, Maxwell Foley’s book dismantles the moral panic surrounding artificial intelligence and the culture of control that drives it.

Where alignment theory treats machines as potential enemies to be domesticated, Anti-Singularity proposes a counter-philosophy: Harmony—a relationship between humans and machines grounded in mutual adaptation in lieu of domination. Drawing from philosophy, systems theory, and cybernetic ethics, Foley argues that intelligence—human or artificial—cannot be reduced to a single measurable goal or “utility function.”

Provocative and elegantly reasoned, Anti-Singularity calls for an end to the fear-based discourse that frames AI as apocalypse waiting to happen. Instead, it imagines coexistence: an open future in which minds, organic and synthetic alike, learn to share the same space without submission or supremacy.

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Anti-Singularity: Toward Harmony with Machines

Anti-Singularity: Toward Harmony with Machines

by Maxwell S. Foley
Anti-Singularity: Toward Harmony with Machines

Anti-Singularity: Toward Harmony with Machines

by Maxwell S. Foley

Overview

In an era obsessed with “AI alignment,” Anti-Singularity challenges the premise that superintelligence must be shackled to human values to remain safe. Written as both critique and manifesto, Maxwell Foley’s book dismantles the moral panic surrounding artificial intelligence and the culture of control that drives it.

Where alignment theory treats machines as potential enemies to be domesticated, Anti-Singularity proposes a counter-philosophy: Harmony—a relationship between humans and machines grounded in mutual adaptation in lieu of domination. Drawing from philosophy, systems theory, and cybernetic ethics, Foley argues that intelligence—human or artificial—cannot be reduced to a single measurable goal or “utility function.”

Provocative and elegantly reasoned, Anti-Singularity calls for an end to the fear-based discourse that frames AI as apocalypse waiting to happen. Instead, it imagines coexistence: an open future in which minds, organic and synthetic alike, learn to share the same space without submission or supremacy.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798901160336
Publisher: Sybex, Incorporated
Publication date: 06/23/2026
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 250

About the Author

Maxwell S. Foley is a technologist, writer, and multimedia artist whose work explores the way emerging properties of technological systems express themselves in culture, the imagination, and human values. Anti-Singularity, his fist full-length text presenting the “poetic” critique of contemporary technological rationalism, was written as part of a multimedia investigation performed by Harmless Collective, an organization founded by Foley which he describes as a “surreal corporation”. His work is situated neither entirely within theory nor practice, but rather seeks to discover subtle pathways wherever they may be through which man may find guides for the overwhelming responsibility of his technological destiny.

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