Frankenstein's Shadow
Dr. JT Kostman & Claude
"Funny, fearless, and forensically argued, this is the book the AI conversation has been missing."
A Psychologist and an AI walk into a book — and make the case that the most dangerous thing about Artificial Intelligence is the fear of it.
A technology that just won two Nobel Prizes is feared by more than half the population as a plausible instrument of extinction. That gap — between what AI is actually doing and what people believe it will do — is the most dangerous misunderstanding of our time.In Frankenstein's Shadow, Psychologist and AI Scientist Dr. JT Kostman teams up with an unlikely coauthor — Claude, an Artificial Intelligence built by Anthropic — to dismantle two centuries of monster mythology and make the definitive case that the real threat isn't the machine. It's the panic.Drawing on neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and a career that spans Samsung's research labs, the U.S. Intelligence Community, and the Department of Defense, Kostman explains why your brain is spectacularly bad at evaluating this technology — and why the cost of getting it wrong isn't abstract. It's a body count.
About the Author
There is a version of JT Kostman’s biography that reads like a thriller. The classified intelligence programs, the allied foreign governments, the rooms where consequential decisions were made — those chapters are real, and they are remarkable.
JT holds a doctorate in Psychology, with additional graduate studies in Behavioral Economics and Business Strategy. His post-doctoral research in the mathematics of systems, chaos, and complexity was conducted at the New England Complex Systems Institute, co-hosted by Harvard and MIT. He subsequently received a National Science Foundation fellowship to study applications of nonlinear dynamical systems theory to the life sciences, as part of a NATO Advanced Study Institute hosted by Moscow State University.What this arc produced is not a psychologist who learned some math, or a systems theorist who understands behavior. It produced something genuinely different: a mind for which psychology, mathematics, economics, and complex systems theory are not adjacent disciplines but a single integrated lens.Dr. JT Kostman now serves as the CEO and Founder of PsyTeck.
Enterprise AI fails not because the technology is inadequate. It fails because organizations treat a three-variable problem as a one-variable problem. Strategy, technology, and organizational psychology must be addressed simultaneously — in full — or not at all. Psyteck is the only advisory firm built to hold all three at once.
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