Frankenstein

What happens when we play God with code instead of corpses? In Frankenstein: A Modern Ethical Dilemma, Prince Penman reanimates Mary Shelley's timeless cautionary tale to confront the artificial intelligence revolution reshaping our world. This isn't just a gothic ghost story—it's a piercing look at AI ethics, where ambition sparks machine learning monsters and humanity teeters on the edge of creation's abyss.

From Silicon Valley labs to Nairobi's streets, Penman uncovers the moral dilemmas of our future technology. Meet the modern Prometheans—developers crafting artificial general intelligence (AGI) with the hubris of Victor Frankenstein, unleashing systems like GPT-4 and autonomous drones that hum with unintended consequences. Through vivid anecdotes—AlphaGo's chilling victory, a chatbot's racist spiral, a teenager's bond with a digital soul—he asks: Can machines love? Can they suffer? And when they escape, who holds the technology ethics torch?

Blending Shelley's brooding introspection with sharp, dystopian nonfiction, Penman explores the loneliness of creators, the bias in algorithms, and the fragile hope of grassroots guardians fighting for a humane tomorrow. This is no dry tech treatise—it's a narrative storm, crackling with literary gravitas and urgent questions. Should we regulate the lightning of innovation, or let it burn? Is universal basic income our new social contract, or a bribe to the future's displaced?

For readers of Yuval Noah Harari, Cathy O'Neil, and Shoshana Zuboff—or anyone gripped by Black Mirror's shadows—Frankenstein: A Modern Ethical Dilemma is a must-read. It's a call to wield artificial intelligence with humility, to balance ambition with empathy, and to face the monsters we've made before they name us. Part warning, part wonder, this book dares you to ask: Are we the creators—or the created?