Written by AI. Still True. — When AI Expands Human Potential: A Systematic Epistemology of Human–AI Knowledge (Edition 1, 2026)

Abstract

Edition 1.1 (2026-09-07). This version adds two chapters, reproduced unchanged at their deposited versions: The Economics of Expertise in the Age of Generative AI v1.1 (10.5281/zenodo.22638960; Part 6, Human Position After Labour) and The Recursive Epistemic Tunnel v2.1 (10.5281/zenodo.22639311; Part 7, The River and Its Tests). The edition page now carries the programme's Core Epistemic Structure block (experience-based expert; interactional expert: none; the AI model used, with its roles). Appendix F is generated from the Toledo equation library v1.4.0 (10.5281/zenodo.22637913) with counts computed at build time; Appendix E records the build. The excerpt page ranges of two earlier chapters are recorded as applied as proposed. No chapter text is changed; every chapter keeps the status it was deposited with (K0); the collection raises nothing. 43 chapters, 742 pages. What this book is. Edition 1 (2026) of the Human–AI Readout Programme's textbook: 41 works already deposited on Zenodo, reproduced at their latest versions, unchanged, in eight parts (Root: Before Meaning · Meaning, Experience, Retention · Possibility, Choice, Potential · Society, Power, Justice · Human–AI Coupling and Return · Human Position After Labour · The River and Its Tests · Method), with a preface, a how-to-read page, a what-this-book-does-not-claim page, part bridges, a headnote before every chapter (its own claim, status and falsifier in its own words), and appendices (library map, non-collapse rows, symbol glossary, falsifier index, build record, equation registry with Th_coqc status). Every chapter keeps the status it was deposited with (K0); the collection raises nothing. The DOI printed with each chapter is the document of record; each chapter record is linked here as hasPart. Every numbered equation of every chapter is coded in the programme's equation library Toledo (v1.0.0, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22548770), whose Coq sources carry the Th_coqc status printed in Appendix F. Standpoint. Written by a standalone scholar from a social-enterprise standpoint; assembled with an AI assistant under the author's direction (drafting of front matter, citation checks, typesetting); no AI system or vendor is an author or contributor. The book asks for no external certification; it asks to be tested against the falsifier stated with each chapter. English-only edition. Licence CC BY 4.0. Built from a manifest of record ids, checksums and measured page counts (see Appendix E).