'AI & I INVESTIGATE' SERIES ANNOUNCED
- Mark Playne
- Dec 22, 2025
- 4 min read
AI & I Investigate: a subject nailed in 99 questions
AI & I Investigate
A new series of short, focused books designed to move faster and go deeper than traditional publishing allows.
Each volume uses a simple structure: 99 precise questions, put directly to artificial intelligence, on a single subject that shapes modern life. No panels. No experts talking past each other. No institutional framing.
Just questions, answers, and rigorous interrogation of the logic behind them.
The aim is to examine, not persuade. To test narratives. To ask what happens when systems designed to manage information are asked to account for it instead.
Why this format?
Time-poor readers want clarity, not volume. The original AI & I proved that sustained questioning reveals more than assertion. This series concentrates that method.
Each title takes one subject and dismantles it question by question, exposing assumptions, contradictions and blind spots.
First volumes:
Virus and contagion narratives
Climate change
Digital ID
9/11
Each stands alone. Each follows the evidence wherever it leads.
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Cover concept for the first book in the series.
Supporters’ names will be printed inside this edition.
Why reader-funded?
These investigations cannot exist within sponsored media, advertiser-funded platforms, or institutionally managed publishing.
There are no grants, no foundations, no editorial boards.
The only way this work remains independent is if readers uphold it themselves.
That is why supporter names are recorded permanently in print.
Not as marketing, but as a historical record.
Every edition will show who made it possible for inquiry to proceed without permission.
How support works
Support is offered across five clear levels, from simple acknowledgement in the first volume to commissioning an entire investigation.
Each level is recorded permanently.
Each contribution directly enables the next book to exist.
Once the supporter list closes, it closes forever.
The first investigation then moves to print.
“Be part of an independent investigation to be remembered...”
Your name printed in the opening pages of the next AI & I Investigate The Truth about Viruses (book 1) under Supporters of Independent Inquiry.
You help keep research, editing, and publication free from institutional influence.
Permanent acknowledgement in print — your name recorded for good.
1 ebook of the finished book when released.
Limited to 50 names.
Once filled, no further entries will appear in print.
No further inclusion in later books unless upgraded later.
Ideal for those who simply want their name recorded forever in the first edition and to know they helped it exist.
“Step inside the investigation and hold a copy in your hands.”
Your name inside AI & I Investigate The Truth about Viruses Book 1 of the series as book sponsor
Includes one ebook of the finished book
Includes one unsigned paperback of the finished book mailed on release.
Invitation to an online discussion (January) about upcoming investigations.
Early updates and inside commentary throughout the year.
Limited to 25 places.
Names at this level appear in Book 1 only, but Sponsors are always invited first to support future volumes if they choose.
For readers who want direct involvement — their name in print, their own copy in hand, and a seat in the conversation that shapes what comes next.
“Stand at the front of the archive — and in every volume ahead.
Your name printed before all other tiers at the front of AI & I Investigate The Truth about Viruses Book 1
Lifetime listing as a Founding Sponsor in all future books of the series.
Small‑group private briefing after launch — direct discussion of findings and future directions.
Five ebooks.
Three paperbacks mailed at release for your own library or to share.
One signed hardback.
Only 5 places available — permanent foundation members of the series.
This top level is for those who want to anchor the work itself, ensuring independent investigation continues across future volumes.
“Co‑found the entire investigative series.”
Named at the very front of every book in the AI & I Investigate The Truth about Viruses series under Series Founding Sponsors.
Imprint-page acknowledgement (“Made possible by the support of…”).
Annual one‑to‑one Zoom call reviewing upcoming investigations and series direction.
Ten ebook copies of every future volume within the series
Ten paperback copies of every future volume within the series
Five signed hardback copies of every future volume within the series
Strictly 3 slots — no additional Series Founding positions will ever exist.
For those who want to stand at the project’s core from first to final page.
“Choose the next subject. Your investigation becomes the next book.
After Christmas Day 2025, the standard Commissioned Investigation rate returns to £3,500.
Co‑create a full 99‑Question AI & I Investigate volume on a subject of your choice.
Private two‑session process: one initial 60‑minute Zoom to establish the core question set, and a follow‑up before release.
The finished work will carry the line “Commissioned by [Name] as part of the AI & I Investigate series” on its title page.
Fifty ebook copies on publication (Will need 50 email addresses in one go)
Twenty paperbacks (to one postal address)
Ten signed hardbacks supplied on publication (to same postal address)
Future copies available to you at standard trade discount for resale or gifting.
Recognition inside the book’s preface and on the imprint page.
Only three slots at this inaugural rate — no further discounted commissions will be offered.
(Important integrity clause: the investigation may take its own course; results are never predetermined. Truth must stand independent of any prior belief or preference. You may veto publication if you wish, but such a veto does not include a refund.)
For the backer who doesn’t just support independent investigation — they initiate one.
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