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James WJ Wilson

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James WJ Wilson is a novelist, screenwriter and engineering leader.

For more than twenty years, he has built and led software teams across regulated finance, SaaS and digital businesses, where questions of trust, evidence, risk and human judgement are practical rather than theoretical.

His fiction explores people living inside systems—technological, institutional and social—that work well enough to become difficult to question.

Do Spiders Leave Footprints? is a literary speculative novel set in near-future London. Its characters live among AI systems that genuinely improve daily life, while confronting questions about memory, evidence, human judgement and the limits of what any system can know. The book favours human relationships, an accumula ...more

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	Do Spiders Leave Footprints? (The Compass Series Book 1) 2.75 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Super Intelligence by Executive Order

An observation about language, power, consensus and the value of human intelligence.

On 29 September, Donald Trump signed an executive order and created Super Intelligence.

The US federal executive branch was told to replace “Artificial Intelligence” (AI) with “Super Intelligence” (SI). The legal definition stayed the same. The technology hadn't changed. Its official identity had.

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