From 1956 to 1971, J. Edgar Hoover's COINTELPRO surveilled MLK, civil rights organizers, anti-war groups, and feminist movements under one logic: dissent gets classified as a security threat first, examined for accuracy later. This week, Wired showed the FBI is doing it again.

Minds We Create showed up on AP News this week, alongside National Law Review and a run of U.S. TV station sites. A useful summary for anyone curious about what the book is about. apnews.com/press-releas... #AIBooks #AISafety #AIGovernance #NewBook #FutureOfAI

The AI Book That Skips the Hype and Gets to What Matters

Published April 2026, Minds We Create is the AI book that asks honest questions — and doesn't flinch from the answers. Available worldwide now.

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Just published on OpenPR - a press release covering Minds We Create and why I wrote it. Sharing here for anyone who wants the full picture in one place. www.openpr.com/news/4505442... #AIBooks #AISafety #AIGovernance #NewBook #FutureOfAI

New Book Asks the Questions About AI That Most People Are Still Afraid to Answer - Minds We Create: AI and a Future Still Being Written by Erik Bernath is now available worldwide

Strasbourg France April 2026 At a moment when artificial intelligence is reshaping industries governments and daily life faster than most people can follow author and AI consultant Erik Bernath has pu...

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Just published on PRLog — a press release covering Minds We Create and why I wrote it. Sharing here for anyone who wants the full picture in one place. www.prlog.org/13144351-the...

The AI Book That Asks What Happens Next — and Who Decides

The AI Book That Asks What Happens Next — and Who Decides. Erik Bernath's Minds We Create cuts through AI hype to examine safety, alignment, and governance — with historical grounding and intellectual...

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Minds We Create is out. It's about AI safety, alignment, and governance — written for humans, not researchers. No hype. No doom. Just the clearest picture I could draw of where we are and what we're deciding right now. 📖 books2read.com/mindswecreate

I spent a year writing a book about AI risk for people who don’t have a PhD in machine learning. The working title was “Please Pay Attention.” My editor convinced me that was too on the nose. She was probably right.

We regulate cars, pharmaceuticals, aircraft, and nuclear plants — not because we hate them, but because we understood the stakes. Somehow AI convinced an entire industry that safety and progress are opposites. They aren’t. We’ve done this before.

The Luddites didn’t hate technology. They were skilled craftsmen who saw a specific technology being deployed specifically to destroy their livelihoods. They were right. They just lost anyway. “Luddite” became an insult. Funny how that happened.

Frances Kelsey blocked thalidomide from the US market in 1960. The drug company called her obstructionist. Difficult. A bureaucrat slowing down progress. She prevented thousands of birth defects. "Move fast" is only a virtue if you're moving in the right direction.

An Intelligence Analyst's Guide to AI Security 5 critical AI threats I've observed moving from intelligence to AI consulting: - Silent data theft - Real-time deepfake evolution - AI threat systems - The AI trust paradox - Human factor 2.0 medium.com/@erik-bernat... #FuriosoAIConsulting #AITraining

The Intelligence Analyst’s Guide to AI Security: 5 Threats We Can’t Ignore

Remember when we thought the biggest security threat was someone hacking our password? Those were simpler times. As a former intelligence…

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