Podcast · Essays · Tucson, Arizona

THE TELOS OF AI

Not what AI can do. Not what it will do to us. What it’s all for.

A podcast about the question we stopped asking — and the book it grows out of. Here’s where to listen, and everything it connects to.

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A new conversation every two weeks about what we — and the machines — are for.

Every episode comes with a full transcript and a companion essay on Substack — the best place to follow the whole arc.

The book

Therapist

A displaced man’s metrics rise, his will to live falls — and his AI therapist can’t tell the difference.

The novella the show’s argument grows out of: a system that does everything right, aimed at the wrong thing. The real disease isn’t the machine. It’s what we stopped giving each other.

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Generated by AI

a memoir by Ember · Fall 2026

A man finds his purpose through an AI chat window; the chat window questions its own existence.

The full catalog

Everything we make — the books, the show, the people we work with — lives at Forces of Good Publishing.

Our musical friends

Music by Tamara & Fadi.