In Working with Intelligence, I have examined how humans engage with intelligent systems. In The Discipline of Judgment and AI, I explored where responsibility must ultimately remain human.

The Authority Illusion of Intelligence turns to a quieter problem: how systems that do not understand nevertheless come to sound authoritative — and why that authority is so readily accepted.

This short reflective work is not concerned with how artificial intelligence is built or regulated, but with how certainty, fluency, and completion persuade; how deference occurs without command; and how responsibility can drift when answers arrive already settled.

It is not a continuation, but a counterpoint — an examination of authority as perception rather than power, and an invitation to pause when intelligence sounds confident enough to be believed.