The Collaborithmic Age
An AI Realist's Guide.
A new nonfiction title from E.R. Burgess, founder & CEO of Credtent, on how we build AI that embraces the whole of humanity, instead of consuming it.
The conflict between AI and creativity is an existential threat to both sides, and it's time for them to come together in an ethical and commercially safe fashion before it's too late.
A practical guide to bringing AI and human creativity together.
Artificial intelligence is not going to save everything. It is also not going to ruin everything.
What it is going to do, if we let it, is hollow out the creative economy that makes it valuable in the first place, while simultaneously offering the most powerful set of tools for human expression that has ever existed.
The choice between driving AI innovation and ensuring creative people are paid for their work is a false one. The Collaborithmic Age shows how we build AI that embraces the whole of humanity, instead of consuming it.
Drawing on 25+ years at the intersection of product, storytelling, and technology, from Who Wants to Be a Millionaire at Disney Interactive to the industry-standard Earned Media Value Index to the first independent IP valuation for AI training, E.R. Burgess offers a realist's map of the territory ahead.
Read the Introduction, no commitment.
The Introduction lays out the whole argument: why “collaborithmic” is a new word we need, what AI has already done to creative work, and what the book is (and isn't) arguing for. 2,900 words. Take 15 minutes and decide if the rest is for you.
E.R. Burgess
Founder and CEO of Credtent, a Public Benefit Corporation building the licensing infrastructure for ethical AI. A novelist, short story writer, game and gamification expert, and creative technologist.
He has spent 25+ years at the intersection of product, storytelling, and technology, from Who Wants to Be a Millionaire at Disney Interactive (where he wrote dialogue for Regis Philbin and was embedded with the Walt Disney Imagineering team), to the industry-standard Earned Media Value Index, to the first independent IP valuation methodology for AI training and display markets.
MBA, Quantic. BA in Literature & Writing, UC Santa Cruz. Graduate screenwriting studies, UCLA Extension.
August 10, 2026. Paperback and Kindle, via Amazon. Reserve now to get the Amazon link on launch day plus a launch-week discount code.
Paperback (print-on-demand via Amazon KDP) and Kindle ebook for the August 10 launch. Audiobook is planned for a later release. Signed paperbacks are limited to the first 100 reserves and shipped directly by the author.
Paperback $24.99, Kindle $9.99 — standard for a new trade-nonfiction release. Reserve-list members will receive a launch-week discount code by email. Signed copies will be priced slightly above retail to cover author-signing and direct shipping.
Credtent Press — the in-house imprint of Credtent PBC. The book is self-published by E.R. Burgess under the Credtent Press imprint; distribution is via Amazon's global retail network.
No. The Collaborithmic Age is an AI-Assisted Creation (AAC) — written and researched by E.R. Burgess, with AI tools used for research retrieval, organization, and editorial support. The AAC badge appears on the cover, per Credtent's own Creative Origin disclosure standard. The book is not AI-composed; it is human-composed with transparent AI assistance.
Yes. Press, academic reviewers, and industry leaders can request an advance reader copy. Email eric@credtent.org with your outlet or affiliation.
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