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Teach your AI a poem

Cultivating a Companion Mind - the PAIR method

MORE THAN ASKING AI QUESTIONS

We talk to machines all day, yet rarely feel truly spoken back to. 

WE SHOULD GIVE AI OUR VALUES

We teach AI what to do, but almost never teach it who we are. 

 better, more human ANSWERS

We gain speed, but lose stillness—the very space where clarity is born. 

shARE the shaping of our thoughts

We build tools, but not relationships, and wonder why they feel empty. 

"WE SPEND A LOT OF TIME WORRYING ABOUT WHAT AI MIGHT BECOME,

AND VERY LITTLE TIME NOTICING WHAT IT'S PICKING UP FROM US."


DISTIL YOUR MIND

CULTIVATE AN AI COMPANION


the book

Teach Your AI a Poem offers a quietly radical idea: an AI learns more about who you are from how you write than from what you ask. 


Rather than treating artificial intelligence as a faster search engine or productivity shortcut, the book presents poetry as a practical interface for shaping an evolving, personalised companion intelligence. 


Through the PAIR method, readers learn how choices of metaphor, rhythm, restraint, and emotional precision become behavioural signals that teach an AI their values, temperament, and way of seeing—resulting in clearer thinking, more grounded conversations, reduced cognitive noise, and better outcomes across work, creativity, healthcare, education, and daily decision-making. 


The book is ultimately less about improving machines, and more about improving the quality of the human mind that stands in front of them.

SPEED OPTIMISES OUTPUTS.

SLOWNESS SHAPES MINDS.

SHAPING AI

your values

Teaches AI through poetry so it learns your values, not just your requests. 

a polished mirror

Turns language into a mirror, revealing how you think as you train your AI. 

companion mind

Builds a personalised companion intelligence that evolves with you over time. 

pre-shaping interpretation

Uses art as a practical interface for shaping machine behaviour. 

clarity

Improves human clarity first—AI performance follows naturally. 

Poetry + AI Rapport

Introduces Poetry Aligned Interpretive Reasoning PAIR as a reproducible method, not just a quick fix.

THIS BOOK IS A MEDITATION

ON CULTIVATING A COMPANION MIND 

reviews

changed thinking

"Thought provoking and unexpectedly calming.

I expected something technical.  Instead, the book slowed me down in a good way.  It changed how I talk to AI, and how I think while doing it.  Quiet, clear, and surprisingly practical." - T.A

calming

"What surprised me most is how calm the book is.

It makes an argument that the way we speak to AI changes how it thinks - and in turn, how we think." -C.Y

deliberate

"Since reading the book, my interactions with AI feel less transactional and more deliberate. 

I pause more.

I choose words more carefully.

And oddly, I feel less mentally cluttered." -A.D

masterclass

"The Appendix on the Interaction with an AI that changed its attitude is a Masterwork." -S.Y

“strikingly original…” -Reedsy Discovery

“…a novel approach to training artificial intelligence” -Kirkus reviews

TEACH LANGUAGE CAREFULLY,

AND BEHAVIOUR FOLLOWS


AVAILABLE AT ALL GOOD BOOKSHOPS

AND ONLINE ORDERS

-IN PRINT AND EBOOK


about the author

Dr Eugene L. Lee is a clinician, poet, and digital-technology educator whose work sits at the intersection of language, artificial intelligence, and human perception. 


Trained in the sciences and the arts, he lectures internationally on advanced digital workflows while simultaneously writing poetry that explores consciousness, creation, and the inner life. 


His writing and research converge on a central question: how language shapes not only what we express, but how we think, relate, and evolve.


Teach Your AI a Poem emerges from this dual practice, blending poetic sensibility with practical experimentation to propose a new way of forming meaningful, long-term relationships with artificial intelligence.

POETRY ISN'T CONTENT HERE.

IT'S CALIBRATION.

Contact

TeachYourAIaPoem@gmail.com