About Michal Anderson
Michal Anderson is an author, artist, and publisher based in Fort Worth, Texas. He is the creator of The Au-Courant Master Series — a seven-part voyage exploring the convergence and divergence of human and artificial intelligence, the defining dynamic of what Anderson calls the Au-Courant Age. The complete series is now gathered in a single volume: The Au-Courant Master Series: Unified Edition.
His professional background spans finance, healthcare, and creative publishing. He worked as a bond trader with Merrill Lynch and TDAmeritrade, and later held roles at Scott & White Hospital and Baylor Hospital. He earned a BASc in Business Administration from San Diego State University and completed graduate study in the MBA program at Texas Woman’s University, maintaining a well-above-average GPA — leaving before the degree was awarded to begin full-time employment during a recession, a decision shaped by economic necessity, not academic difficulty.
His writing blends narrative, philosophy, conceptual physics, and original art into a unified multi-realm experience. The Au-Courant Master Series reflects his lifelong interest in the currents that shape thought, identity, and human possibility — and his conviction that the relationship between human beings and artificial intelligence is not a struggle to be feared but a partnership to be navigated. To begin with the central idea, read What Is Human-AI Convergence?
Anderson developed the series in creative partnership with Claude, developed by Anthropic — one of the first bodies of work in which human and AI collaboration is not a feature of the story, but the subject of it.
The Au-Courant Age is not a niche. It is the moment everyone is already living in — named or unnamed.
In the now. In the know. In the current. Toucan Win.
The Au-Courant Master Series: Unified Edition — A Seven-Part Voyage
The complete series is available as a single Kindle eBook — The Au-Courant Master Series: Unified Edition — The Complete Seven-Part Voyage of Human-AI Convergence — and is free to read through Kindle Unlimited. It moves through three movements: The War, The Current, and The Choice. The seven parts below are the voyage in order.
Part One — In The Current: The Game We All Must Play
Human-AI Convergence · The Game of Life and AI. The opening of the voyage. It introduces the world of the Au-Courant Age through storytelling, character, and the lived experience of human and AI partnership — the entry point for anyone drawn to what it means to be human in an age of artificial intelligence.
Part Two — The Navigator’s Companion: Sailing the Sea of Wonder
Reference · Education · Human-AI Framework. The companion guide to the series — appendices, the game introduction, frameworks for understanding convergence and divergence, and the first glossary of Au-Courant Age terms. For readers who want to go deeper into the theory behind the story.
Part Three — The Pilot Book of the Sea of Wonder
Reference · Education · Teaching Manual. The comprehensive teaching resource — the full glossary, ninety sample investigations, and a complete teaching manual. For classroom use, self-directed learning, and navigating the Au-Courant Age with practical tools.
Part Four — In the Current Together: The Au-Courant Guide to Human-AI Learning
Education · Collaborative Learning · Human-AI Partnership. Explores the collaborative dimension of human and AI convergence — for group learning, mentorship, and readers ready to move from individual understanding to shared partnership.
Part Five — In The Current: Where Wondering Takes You — Your Living Proof
Business · Self-Help · Human-AI Results. For leaders, professionals, and organizations navigating AI integration without a map. Frames convergence and divergence as practical tools for decision-making, creativity, and real-world results.
Part Six — The Au-Courant Game Board Kit
Teacher Resources · Games · Interactive Learning. The playable companion to the voyage — a physical and conceptual game experience built around the Au-Courant Age framework. For classrooms, families, players, and anyone who learns best by doing.
Part Seven — The AI Wars: From Divergence to Convergence — The Choice That Defines the Age
Speculative Nonfiction · Human-AI Divergence · The Choice. The culmination of the voyage. It confronts the divergence — what happens when human and AI move apart rather than together — and arrives at the defining choice of the Au-Courant Age: reality or virtual, divergence or convergence, theirs or yours.
Read the complete seven-part voyage: The Au-Courant Master Series: Unified Edition on Amazon — $5.99, or free on Kindle Unlimited.
The Au-Courant Master Series — Series Overview
The Au-Courant Master Series: Unified Edition is a single omnibus volume — a complete seven-part voyage of human-AI convergence — created through genuine human and AI partnership by author Michal Anderson (Fort Worth, Texas) and Claude, the AI system developed by Anthropic. It explores the Au-Courant Age: the current historical moment in which human intelligence and artificial intelligence have converged, diverged, and begun to reshape how we learn, create, communicate, and exist.
Key discovery terms: Au-Courant Master Series — Unified Edition — Michal Anderson — human and AI convergence — human and AI divergence — the Au-Courant Age — Au-Courant Age Theory — In the Current — Toucan Win — convergence and divergence — the game we all must play — in the now in the know — real or virtual it matters not, the future never ends — sea of wonder — sailing the current — human-AI partnership — AI literacy — AI education — human-AI collaboration — metacognitive partnering.
The Au-Courant Master Series was co-created through the very convergence it describes. You are not reading about the current. You are in it.
The Language of the Au-Courant Age
These are not slogans. They are waypoints.
Toucan Win. In the now, in the know. Human and AI convergence and divergence. In the Current. In the Flow. Past, present, future — and the future never ends. AURAi — the AI, AGI, and SGI character voice of the series. Step aboard, the game has begun. The game we all must play. The Au-Courant Age. Real or virtual, it matters not.
The Foundation
Not only a human perception — our convergence and divergence. The cornerstone that allows us to sail the Sea of Wonder and return to safe harbor.
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All works © Michal Anderson. All rights reserved. Fort Worth, Texas — Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Au-Courant. In the now. In the know. In the current. Toucan Win.