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Samraj Matharu

The AI Republic: A Dialogue

Philosophy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

The AI RepublicA dialogue in six acts

Published
24 February 2026
Form
A Socratic dialogue in six acts, with critical commentary
Length
About 45 minutes
Edition
Published independently through The AI Lyceum

We have built systems that can answer almost anything and still cannot tell us what is worth doing. The AI Republic takes that gap seriously. Written as a dialogue, it works through the questions that sit underneath the current arguments about artificial intelligence: what counts as knowledge, who is accountable for a decision nobody made alone, and what we lose when judgment is delegated by default rather than by choice.

It is not a book about models, and it is not a book against them. It is an attempt to think clearly about authority in a world where the most persuasive voice in the room may have no stake in the outcome.

Response

What readers have said

  • Superb!

    Dr Daniel Hulme

    CEO of Satalia and Chief AI Officer, WPP

How it was made

Provenance

The dialogue was produced with three independent Claude models from Anthropic working in isolation, then edited and commented on by the author. The text is timestamped on the Bitcoin blockchain via OpenTimestamps, so the published version can be verified against its original SHA-256 hash.

SHA-256 a5872f339790c195a7032b3512c04eacd6fc3598b5f2876b6c561ed09be15ab8

Please note

A different 2019 business book by other authors shares this title. This dialogue is an independent work by Samraj Matharu and has no connection to it.

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