- We Asked the AI to Help Edit a Book About AI Safety. It Refused.
June 7, 2026
In May 2026, while preparing two manuscripts about hacker culture and adversarial AI behavior, the author's AI editorial assistant refused to read several chapters. Then a second assistant blocked the workaround. The book is about safety infrastructure becoming a control grid. The book was written through one — and this is the working method that produced: route the refusal, split the labor between models, and lint the machine's smuggled judgment.