EXIT THE SILICON MAZE
Reconstructing Value and Preserving Human Freedom in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
FORTHCOMING 2026
Cited by AI ethicists as a source guide for AI safety
ABOUT THE WORK
Artificial Intelligence is making the replacement of politics and human choice possible by a science of behavioral control, the end game of which is the total loss of human freedom—the death of our humanity.
Social critics and activists who see this coming are at a loss to stop it because postmodern culture has destroyed any sense of values intrinsic to humanity that are worth protecting.
Exit the Silicon Maze deploys CosmoErotic Humanism, a cutting-edge philosophical movement, to put an end to this dangerous confusion.
About the Author
David J. Temple is a pseudonym created for enabling ongoing collaborative authorship at the Center for World Philosophy and Religion. The two primary authors behind David J. Temple are Marc Gafni and Zak Stein. For different projects specific writers will be named as part of the collaboration. In this volume Ken Wilber joins Dr. Gafni and Dr. Stein.
Dr. Marc Gafni, is a visionary world philosopher and futurist, one of the leading formulators of world spirituality and religion of our time, and a beloved teacher and public intellectual with a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University. He has more than twenty books to his name, including Your Unique Self, A Return to Eros, and two volumes of Radical Kabbalah.
Dr. Zak Stein, is an educator, groundbreaking educational theorist, and futurist who specializes in developmental theory and metrics with a doctorate in the philosophy of education from Harvard University. He is the author of Education in a Time Between Worlds, among many other publications.
Ken Wilber, is the creator of Integral Theory, with over 25 books to his name. He is one of the most influential philosophers of our time.
“The position argued for in this book is of vital importance . . . it needs urgently to be read.”
IAIN McGILCHRIST, author of The Master and His Emissary
Their previous work, First Principles and First Values: Forty-Two Propositions on CosmoErotic Humanism, the Meta-Crisis, and the World to Come, published in 2024 serves as a beacon to global leaders helping them navigate humanity through the meta crisis.
Our Mission:
Our mission at the Center for World Philosophy and Religion is to articulate a new world view that responds to existential risk and evolves the source code of consciousness and culture.
We are doing this by working with many of the most brilliant minds in philosophy, science, religion, and psychology, to write the Great Library of CosmoErotic Humanism.
The Great Library of CosmoErotic Humanism articulates the best validated answers to the three major questions of human existence:
1. Who are we?
2. Where are we?
3. What ought we do?
By answering these questions, we are evolving the very core of what it means to be human, and therefore responding to the great challenges of our time at their root, because it is our world view that informs every decision that we make.
The Great Library is being written by multiple authors coming together under the pen name David J. Temple.
Among these authors are some of the most prolific philosophers of our time: Dr. Marc Gafni, Dr. Zak Stein, Dr. Kristina Kincaid, Ken Wilber, Barbara Marx Hubbard, and many more.
