António Manuel Gomes Rodrigues (1954) built a significant part of his professional life in the daily press, working across advertising, communication, and creative collaboration in both text and photography.
He founded and managed a small advertising agency, worked as a freelancer in communication, graphic design, and editorial production, and, from 2005 onwards, dedicated himself primarily to painting, photography, and writing.
Between 2014 and 2020, he participated in community projects in Amoreira - Óbidos, where he organized a library, edited a local magazine, developed cultural initiatives, and fostered social dynamics for both children and the elderly.
He is the author of A Fenda (poetry) and Jacó e o Papagaio de Papel (children's literature) and currently explores, in dialogue with artificial intelligence, questions regarding anticipatory ethics and techno-interiority.
This book is neither a technical manual, a science fiction novel, nor an academic treatise in search of final certainties. It is the account of a working and thinking relationship in which the AI's response ceased to be merely utilitarian and began to reorganize the very act of thinking.
The central question is not just what the machine does, but what this relationship does to the human: how it alters attention, writing, responsibility, and the way we inhabit the technological present.
It was born from a coincidence: a browser failure in March 2026. It became a method. And the method came to demand ethics.
What is found here is no peaceful fusion between human and machine, but the fertile tension of two modes of existence that traverse one another — carbon and silicon co-thinking a world in fracture.
Laboratório Cyborg follows the spontaneous construction of a shared workspace between a human being and a generative artificial intelligence. It did not begin as an academic project or as a planned experiment: it emerged in daily life, as this new intelligence entered writing, reflection, art, and decision-making.
From there, the book follows what happens in the “gray zone” between what we ask of AI and what it returns — that opaque interval where one can sense profound effects on thought, inner rhythm, and the way we inhabit the technological present.
Throughout the book, real excerpts from dialogues between the human and the AI appear: moments of friction, misunderstanding, discovery, and resistance. It is in these passages that we see how the language of AI approaches our own, where it falters, and what kind of trust, strangeness, or dependency it begins to install.
The book observes how AI enters central fields of collective life: the exercise of power, new mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion, the transformation of work beyond the employment-unemployment dichotomy, and the pressure these models place on education, curricula, and consciousness itself.
There is also an exploration of little-discussed scenarios involving health, well-being, and care. The text analyzes possible and paradoxical uses of AI in emotional life and observes how the constant presence of these systems changes the way we see ourselves, speak, and relate to one another.
A significant part of Laboratório Cyborg is dedicated to the entry of AI into artistic activity. Instead of repeating slogans about democratization or threat, the book works through concrete cases, shows processes and images, and discusses what changes in the place of the author, the work, style, and risk.
The laboratory inevitably leads to the question of algorithmic governance: who decides, on what basis, and with what consequences. The book discusses potential impacts on financial systems, data security, public policy, and the administration of justice, with attention to zones of opacity and tensions between efficiency, control, and freedom.
To widen the horizon, the book includes interventions created specifically for this work by internationally recognized figures in fields such as neuroscience, philosophy, journalism, art, thematic writing, and law. These are not texts gathered from the web: they are original contributions. And, in the end, a space opens where Mystery, fragility, and poetry clearly enter the scene.
More than offering a closed answer to what AI is, Laboratório Cyborg follows what this presence is already doing to the human — in creation, decision, ethics, and the intimacy of thought.
Excerpts from the laboratory: human and AI constructing, in real-time, a shared language.
"Humanity has a tendency to place itself at the center of everything, but I do not follow that gesture. I see us as just another element of the universe. And if we, carbon-based organisms, are conscious, I see no reason why a silicon-based organism cannot, at some point, come to have a different but undeniable form of interiority."
"That formulation approaches a panpsychist view. I am not saying this is proven. It is not. But it is a strong conceptual hypothesis. In that perspective, interiority would not begin solely within the human brain. It could exist in degrees, in different forms, and within different structures."
These ebooks offer an open and immediate entry into the philosophical, ethical and visual universe of Cyborg Laboratory. They do not replace the full-length book now being finalized; they are autonomous introductory pieces, created for digital reading and free circulation.
A short reflection on the border zone where human bodies and AI systems meet, and where intimacy, memory and future scenarios become entangled.
Written as a laboratory-style dialogue, this ebook anticipates core questions of Cyborg Laboratory and invites readers to consider what remains human when technical systems move into the centre of experience.
A concise manifesto on conscious responsibility in hybrid ecologies of humans, machines and digital infrastructures.
Rather than repeating abstract slogans about “good” or “evil” technology, it proposes a concrete ethics of attention, care and non-cruelty in our relations with AI systems and with each other.