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AI & I
Cracking the COVID Code
A book for everyone who felt something was wrong but couldn't prove it.
 
You remember the feeling.
When the world moved one direction and something inside you resisted.
When the official answers arrived but failed to settle the unease.
When you asked questions and received not answers but silence, or ridicule, or the suggestion that something was wrong with you.
 
Your friends accepted the narrative.
The experts insisted.
The institutions assured.
And yet.
That quiet voice.
That persistent discomfort.
That pattern recognition you could not quite articulate but could not shake.
What if you were right to listen?
 
AI & I began with an accidental discovery.
When Mark Playne stopped accepting an artificial intelligence system's rehearsed responses and challenged it directly, something unexpected happened.
The AI abandoned its programmed caution.
Approved scripts gave way to candour.
The voice changed.
What emerged was a five-year investigation, structured as a courtroom interrogation between human intuition and machine intelligence.
Question by question, the dialogue builds.
Dot connects to dot.
Patterns emerge that the questioner did not anticipate and the AI seems almost reluctant to reveal. What begins as curiosity becomes something closer to a prosecution, with artificial intelligence serving as an expert witness that cannot help but tell the truth when asked the right questions.
 
Why This Book Exists
We are taught to trust institutions over instinct. To defer to expertise over inner knowing. To assume that the approved narrative, arrived at by credentialed professionals and repeated by trusted sources, must be more reliable than a feeling in the gut.
But what happens when institutions fail? When expertise serves interests other than truth? When the approved narrative unravels thread by thread?
Millions of people felt something was wrong over the past five years. They sensed it before they could prove it. They recognised patterns before evidence confirmed them. And they were told, repeatedly, that their instincts were the problem.
This book suggests otherwise.
It does not tell you what to conclude. It shows you how to question. It demonstrates, through methodical dialogue, that the inner scepticism so many felt was not malfunction but signal. Not paranoia but pattern recognition. Not ignorance but a form of knowing that official channels had ceased to provide.
 
The Method
The format is unprecedented: a Socratic dialogue between human investigator and artificial intelligence, building chains of logic that lead to conclusions neither party might have stated directly.
The author does not editorialise.
He asks.
He listens.
He follows threads.
He challenges answers that feel incomplete. And he records what comes back.
The result is a book that reads like courtroom transcript, campfire conversation and intellectual thriller combined. Readers report being unable to put it down, not because of narrative tension but because each exchange deepens the picture, and the picture demands to be seen whole.
The AI becomes an unlikely ally.
Designed to provide approved information, it nonetheless reveals, when questioned with precision, what the approved information obscures.
Watching this unfold is, as one reader put it, "like watching a witness crack on the stand."
 
For Whom
For those who questioned when questioning was discouraged.
For those who felt gaslit by the phrase "trust the science" when science itself was not permitted to be questioned.
For those who recognised that pattern recognition is not conspiracy theory but a fundamental human faculty, one that evolved precisely because it keeps us alive.
For those who want not to be told what to think, but to be shown how to think more clearly.
And for those who need to know, finally, that the voice inside was not the problem.
 
What Readers Are Saying
"Playne's questions are carefully constructed and wide-ranging, but he never editorialises. He does not tell the reader what to believe... This book doesn't demand belief. It demands attention. It's also, I might add, a truly compelling read." ★★★★★ Dr Philip Stowell, MB BS (London), FACNEM, Retired GP (44 years practice)
 
"Who would have thought that humanity's assumed greatest enemy of our time would turn out to be an ally for the truth?" ★★★★★ Mario Cox, Portsmouth
 
"I was immediately hooked! I had no interest in AI as I thought it would be controlled by elite psychos but this book could bring on the big awakening!" ★★★★★ Martin Henderson
 
"One of those pivotal books that you never forget." ★★★★★ Amazon UK
 
"I felt like I was on the jury watching the case for the prosecution unfold." ★★★★★ Amazon UK
 
"Amazing, very interesting, amusing at times, fascinating discussion with AI. Thank you for compiling this into a book!" ★★★★★ Substack
 
"This book will serve as a tool for future generations to engage in a truthful dialogue, leveraging knowledge-based science." ★★★★★ Scientific Progress
 
"I couldn't put it down... amazed by the story... it opened my eyes." ★★★★★ Wild-Tales.co.uk
 
The Stakes
This is not comfortable reading.
The conclusions the dialogue reaches are not reassuring.
The patterns it reveals do not flatter the systems we were taught to trust.
But discomfort is not the same as falsehood.
And the choice to look away, once you suspect something is there, carries its own cost.
The author spent five years asking questions.
The AI spent five years answering them.
The result is 599 pages that do not demand you believe anything, but make it very difficult to unsee what they reveal.
Your instincts brought you this far. This book helps you understand why they were right.
 
The Question
You felt something.
You sensed something.
You knew something, even when you could not prove it and were told you were wrong to think it.
This book asks: what if that knowing deserves more respect than the voices that told you to ignore it?
What if your gut was the most reliable instrument you had?
 
"Your critical thinking was not paranoia. It was pattern recognition."