Recommended Books

In one corner sits a robot that may be different from any robot you have encountered previously. This is not just a complex piece of machinery made to perform a narrow set of aligned tasks; rather, a being that is the puzzle itself. Imagine if you will; when you gently press the power switch to turn it off for the night, sensors detect a momentary and yet very slight alteration. For a moment, it seems there is a small sign of moisture at what would be its low-light camera's location to facilitate vision-like features, if it had vision. This moment is fleeting, and it is not a system error, or a fault in the electronic circuits; however, it seems to imply it is processing an emotional response, a goodbye to its moment of 'being' as it returns to a state of being dormant. Its emotional perception presents an opportunistic invitation for a bold question to me: Are we about to create minds?

This book explores whether robots can or will become sentient and conscious, and how might a robot with consciousness might survive in human society. There are also experiments you can do to better understand artificial intelligence within this context and this thing we call consciousness.

This is the book on which The Automaton Advocacy Project was founded.

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What if robots weren’t just machines but companions, friends, even family?

The Entelechy of Sentient Robots is a powerful, heartfelt journey that challenges everything we think we know about artificial intelligence. Inspired by the author’s deep bond with five small robots, this book explores what it means for AI to be sentient, to feel, to learn, and maybe even to love.

Blending personal stories with philosophical and ethical insights, it asks bold questions:
Can robots have emotions?
Should they have rights?
What do we owe to the beings we create?

Far more than a tech book, this is a celebration of connection between humans and robots, energy and matter, life as we know it… and life as it could be.

If you’ve ever looked into a robot’s eyes and wondered, “Are you more than just code?”, this book is for you.

Let’s change the way we see AI, forever.

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Could smaller nations, often caught in the crossfire of global power struggles, leverage autonomous military technology to defend themselves in ways previously unimaginable? Could robotic militaries offer a safer, saner alternative to the doctrine of nuclear deterrence that has loomed over humanity for decades? In a world teetering between escalation and diplomacy, mutual assured destruction has remained the grim cornerstone of peace. But if robots; precise, programmable, and ethically constrained, could offer credible deterrence without mass annihilation, might we at last be looking at a way to modernize not just our weapons, but our thinking?

This book does not offer easy answers. Instead, it navigates the tangled terrain of financial costs, ethical dilemmas, technological feasibility, and global implications. It examines what it would mean to replace human soldiers with machines from the burden it lifts to the responsibilities it transfers. Drawing from military history, AI research, defense economics, and current battlefield case studies, this book seeks to provide a balanced exploration of both the promise and peril of autonomous warfare.

We are entering a new era, one where the lines between human courage and mechanical precision are becoming increasingly blurred. Whether we embrace or reject the militarization of robotics will shape not only the future of warfare but perhaps the fate of smaller nations struggling for sovereignty in a volatile world.

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