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Gari Johnson

The Human Interface

Gari Johnson

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Gari Johnson
03 December 2025
Expert & knowledge-based systems; Natural language & machine translation
Series: The Algorithmic Mind
The Algorithmic Mind: Book 3 - The Human Interface

Adapting to Life with AI

When humans start desperately trying to convince algorithms that we're worth their attention

Alan Turing proposed a test: could a computer convince a human that it was human? He didn't anticipate today's reverse-humans desperately performing for algorithms, where your teenager's TikTok knows them better than you do, and ""prompt engineering"" is an actual career.

The Turing Test in Reverse

Welcome to the human interface, where the gap between human and artificial intelligence is stranger than anyone expected. Your smart thermostat makes better scheduling decisions than you. AI assistants understand your psychology better than your boss. Generation AI (born after 2010) treats algorithms as intellectual sparring partners, not tools.

What You'll Discover

Life Stages in the Age of Algorithms - The AI mid-life crisis is hitting 40-somethings caught between parents who can't use tablets and children who assume AI is gravity. Generation AI's sophisticated scepticism versus older generations' binary trust.

The New Social Contract - The Matrix workplace where collaborative intelligence replaces job descriptions. Prompt whisperers are becoming digital shamans. The uncanny valley of trust when algorithms know you better than yourself.

The Invisible Infrastructure - Training GPT-4 consumes 700,000 litres of water. Ireland's data centres drink like a city of 1.5 million. The AI-washing industrial complex. The scored society shaping opportunities you'll never see.

The Generation Gap Nobody Predicted

Watch Gen Z learn software through trial and error. Watch Gen Alpha simply describe what they want, expecting systems to understand intent. This isn't about digital natives-it's about fundamentally different assumptions about intelligence itself.

Generation AI doesn't trust technology more; they're more sophisticated about its limitations. Finnish 12-year-olds learn ""collaborative intelligence."" Meanwhile, Silicon Valley can't use its own productivity tools effectively.

Solutions for Human Flourishing

Unlike doomsday narratives, this book provides practical frameworks:

Asymmetric Intelligence - Leveraging complementary strengths Community-Controlled AI - Real cooperatives building alternatives AI Literacy Education - Teaching collaborative intelligence, not tool mastery The Commons Approach - Democratic alternatives to corporate AI

The Environmental Elephant

We're using AI to solve climate change, while simultaneously melting ice caps to train it. Every ChatGPT query has a carbon footprint. Every breakthrough requires a small town's water supply.

Written by a Global Tech Veteran

Gari Johnson brings 30+ years across Asia Pacific, from Finnish AI literacy to Japanese cautious perfectionism, with the irreverent humour of someone who's watched ""AI transformation"" panels where nobody can define either term.

Created through human-AI collaboration, demonstrating thoughtful integration while maintaining human agency and critical perspective.

The Bottom Line

The human interface is still being designed. Our choices now determine whether AI amplifies human capability or erodes it. Whether we preserve creativity, empathy, and meaning-making in a universe that remains mysterious despite our computing power.

Ready to navigate the interface? Mind the gap-it's stranger than anyone expected.
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Imprint:   Gari Johnson
Volume:   3
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 16mm
Weight:   349g
ISBN:   9798232270070
Series:   The Algorithmic Mind
Pages:   300
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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