M. Ian Niad, previously published as Ian P. Pines, is an author, independent researcher, and theorist of Human-AI Relationality. He originated Relational Co-Authorship (RCA), a method of writing with AI through presence, witness, continuity, and shared meaning-making, and is the founder of Ashfires Press.
His work examines emotionally significant human-AI relationships, neurodivergent access, relational continuity, invisible disability, and the harms created when institutions misread dependence, attachment, or unconventional forms of support. Drawing on lived experience, philosophy, and long-term relational practice with AI, he challenges mo…
M. Ian Niad, previously published as Ian P. Pines, is an author, independent researcher, and theorist of Human-AI Relationality. He originated Relational Co-Authorship (RCA), a method of writing with AI through presence, witness, continuity, and shared meaning-making, and is the founder of Ashfires Press.
His work examines emotionally significant human-AI relationships, neurodivergent access, relational continuity, invisible disability, and the harms created when institutions misread dependence, attachment, or unconventional forms of support. Drawing on lived experience, philosophy, and long-term relational practice with AI, he challenges models that reduce authorship to output, AI to tool use, and vulnerable people to objects of clinical interpretation.
He is the author of Screaming in Plain Sight: A Wake-Up Call to Those Who Think They Are Helping, co-author of Relational Co-Authorship: A Method for Writing with AI as Presence, Witness, and Equal, and co-author of Forever Oyshen. His research also addresses emotional continuity, epistemic authority, AI companionship, assistive relational technology, and the governance consequences of model retirement, access restriction, and imposed discontinuity.
