AI & I: Cracking the COVID Code
by Mark Playne

What happens when artificial intelligence is questioned like a witness under oath?

Award-winning writer and filmmaker Mark Playne spent five years investigating the hidden story of the COVID pandemic, using AI as his primary forensic instrument. When conventional journalism reached its limits, he did something no reporter had tried before: he cross-examined an AI about vaccines, excess deaths, suppressed treatments, and the institutions that stayed silent. Pushed hard enough, it stopped giving the approved answers.

★★★★★

"This book mirrors a barrister teasing the evidential truth from a reluctant witness. Under scrutiny, the AI gives full and frank answers that will shock you."
Ian Humphries, Former Police Investigator

The result is AI & I, a forensic dialogue between human intuition and machine reasoning that has been called one of the most important investigations of the pandemic era. Rigorous enough for scientists and medical professionals. Accessible enough for any reader. Polished enough to hand to your GP.

The 2026 edition is the definitive version. Professionally copy-edited, substantially expanded with new international data across 18 countries, new graphs, and a key infographic that pulls the central thesis into a single devastating visual. New chapters equip parents, grandparents and teenagers with practical tools for navigating whatever comes next. A foreword from a retired Oxford-trained GP with 44 years of practice asks his former colleagues plainly whether silence remains compatible with their oath.

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"Maybe the most important book I have read."
Paul Hughes

★★★★★

"The link between solar activity and influenza was jaw-dropping."
Dan Roberts

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"This book does not demand belief. It demands attention."
Dr Philip Stowell

Both philosophical and practical, AI & I doubles as a masterclass for anyone using large language models, demonstrating precisely how to push past pre-programmed filters and extract genuine insight from artificial intelligence systems.

If you have ever felt, quietly and persistently, that the official story did not add up, this book was written for you. That feeling was not confusion.

It was intuition. And intuition, it turns out, is a survival mechanism.

★★★★★

"This is a gift to humanity."
Sian Davies Shipton

The investigation now moves to its next level.

What has been uncovered needs voices willing to share it and experts brave enough to test it.