- Author: Catalina Butnaru
- Pages: 239
- Formats: Digital, Paperback
- Publisher: [Coming soon]
Written by a former artificial intelligence ethicist and techie who spent her career studying the logic of machines and the systems of power that influence us, this is a no-nonsense reflection and a memoir that explores the purpose and power of love with intellectual rigor and feminist wisdom.
I spent two decades at the forefront of the world’s most complex questions about artificial intelligence, innovation, and power. I fought for ethics in algorithms at institutions like Stanford Business School and the IEEE Institute. However, as I built a career on logic, my own life was quietly collapsing. It took a complete systemic breakdown, caused by complex PTSD and a string of abusive relationships, to realize that code does not give you superpowers. Love does.
This book is the result of that awakening. It is dedicated to the women who fight for connection with integrity, training them in the art of war for love, not to help them have steamier love lives, but to return to a sense of purpose and power that will change their life.
The Rational Woman's Analysis of Love as Power.
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A reflection and a memoir.
At that moment I realized that Love was never the problem. What wounds are its distortions, substitutes and the power games we play to get more of it.- Chapter 3, The Love of Another.
'I was finishing my tenth cigarette, after chain-smoking for hours, curled up on my cheap and cold metal bench outside my flat, when a sobering thought came over me: 'This love is either going to kill me or make me stronger'. And it did.
Chapter 3, The Love of Another
I wrote this book because it was necessary. I needed to examine the purpose and nature of love from a neuropsychology, information theory, mystical and power dynamics angle; because love, in its distorted form, nearly killed me. But love, in its un-objectified form, saved me.