Peter Henss

Peter Henss is a former police officer and cybersecurity product manager who set out to learn everything AI could do. The first test was personal: his grandfather Walter, a master furrier who left Frankfurt in circumstances no one alive could explain, died in 1996 taking his story with him. A multi-agent AI methodology recovered the rest and traced the family lineage to 1410. That became The Digital Ancestor.

The other books came from frustrations Peter could not shake. People repeating whatever social media told them to think. Amateur politicians stumbling through ideas they understood better than anyone advising them. Aged care residents dying lonely, their lives reduced to four-line file notes.

His final piece is the most personal — using AI to articulate a Comcare submission for an injury sustained in Afghanistan. The methodology that recovered a grandfather's history turned out to work just as well on a system designed to wear claimants down