The Diamond Leviathan · A Duology
The Diamond Leviathan, Volume I: The FrictionLayer
Volume I
Who gets to decide
who you become?
Volume I · Available now
The Diamond Leviathan
A world of extraordinary possibility. And deeper questions.
Artificial intelligence offers extraordinary possibilities. As dependence grows, so does the power to shape the terms on which people live.
Explore Volume I
- 01Human lives
- 02Powerful systems
- 03Choices under pressure
At a turning point
Who gets to decide who you become?
A struggle over freedom, care and the systems that increasingly mediate human choice.
The first volume
The beginning of a larger struggle.
Julian Feron faces an offer he cannot dismiss. Dr Cordelia Walters watches care turn into control. Sloane Wilder leaves a technology empire carrying evidence of the systems she helped build.
Explore Volume IThe argument becomes personal.
Across twenty years, the story follows people trying to share AI’s benefits without surrendering the right to decide who they become.
Julian Feron
A father with a son in a neurological ward, facing an offer tied to political support.
Dr Cordelia Walters
A doctor watching care turn into control, one setting at a time.
Sloane Wilder
Leaving a technology empire with evidence of the systems she helped build.
Cameron
Looking back in 2065, gathering the surviving records.
A struggle measured in decades.
About the author
A novel written from close to the systems it questions.
Dr. Hosein Khajeh-Hosseiny
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Hosein Khajeh-Hosseiny is an investor, advisor and board member whose career spans artificial intelligence, innovation and corporate transformation. He holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Cambridge.
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