The Delegation Age

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The Living Book

Artificial Intelligence, Human Judgment, and the Responsibility We Cannot Give Away

By George L. TaylorLiving Edition v1.128Editorial update: November 7, 2026
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An everyday introduction, followed by the book’s eight principles.

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Part One

The Great Delegation

  1. 01The Machine That Says Yes
  2. 02Delegation Is Not the Problem
  3. 03When Delegation Becomes Abdication
  4. 04Who Is Responsible When Nobody Decided?

Part Two

The Economic Transfer

  1. 05The Employee Who Never Sleeps
  2. 06The End of the Entry-Level Job?
  3. 07One Person, One Company
  4. 08Who Owns the Productivity?
  5. 09The New Inequality

Part Three

The Human Decisions

  1. 10The Doctor and the Machine
  2. 11The Teacher and the Tutor
  3. 12The Judge, the Algorithm and the Defendant
  4. 13Machines at War
  5. 14The Algorithm That Knows You

Part Four

Human Identity

  1. 15When Machines Become Creative
  2. 16Your Artificial Confidant
  3. 17Delegating Childhood
  4. 18What Happens to Expertise?
  5. 19The Crisis of Knowing

Part Five

Governing Intelligence

  1. 20The Race to Set the Rules
  2. 21Red Lines
  3. 22Who Controls the Models?
  4. 23The AI State

Part Six

The Delegation Doctrine

  1. 24What Must Remain Human?
  2. 25The Accountability Test
  3. 26The Delegation Doctrine
  4. 27The Last Human Signature

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