Many insiders in the tech plex are deeply concerned about AI's trajectory—rightly seeing it as existential risk. Dr. Marc Gafni identifies two forms: the potential death of humanity through extinction events, and the potential death of our humanity.

We become irrelevant to governance and economics, unneeded as workers, controlled by systems that shape our desires, stripped of genuine choice—heading toward a totalitarian global digital dictatorship.

In this monograph, Dr. Marc Gafni offers a multilayered diagnosis of our AI moment—one that far exceeds technological concerns. The real challenge is rising to a new consciousness as a global humanity, meeting AI's existential risk through global co-ordination and coherence, via a shared Story of Value rooted in First Principles and First Values of Cosmos, grounded in both interior and exterior sciences.

We cannot rely on AI for value-aligned answers. Value alignment remains unsolved, and AI cannot recognize value—value is a feeling, and AI doesn't feel.

The book maps three waves of AI against a broad historical background to show where we are. Commenting on "AI 2027," Dr. Marc Gafni highlights the gap between the necessity of AI-value-alignment and its global impossibility today, as value theory has broken down and we have lost a shared grammar of value.

From the disturbing yet clear diagnosis, a way ahead emerges. We need to realize that attention, conversation, personhood, feeling, and intimacy are core structures of Reality. Value is not a social construct. Value is real.

If we begin to globally co-ordinate through a shared Story of Value based on universal First Principles and First Values, this crisis can become the birth of the new human and the new humanity.

Dr. Marc Gafni is a uniquely gifted teacher whose oral teachings stir and awaken the memory of what it means to be human. Value is real, love is real. The oral essay style aims to transmit that quality in written form.