Book 1 · Holding the Line
Philosophy and Governance in the Age of AI
AI is already inside your board's decisions — optimising maintenance schedules, flagging compliance risks, processing patterns no board meeting can match.
What it argues
Drawing on Aristotelian virtue ethics, complexity science, and four decades of practitioner experience in social housing, this book argues governance is a moral craft, and that machine intelligence changes what it demands of practitioners, not what governance is for.
The trade-offs boards must resolve — safety against dignity, current residents against those not yet housed, sustainability against mission — share no common measure. Choosing between them is irreducibly human. This is the foundation the rest of the series builds on.
Further reading & sources
The book doesn't footnote itself — it's written for people running organisations, not people writing theses. This companion page names the thinkers and traditions behind the argument, chapter by chapter, with reading recommendations at three levels: a way in, a step further, and the original sources.