Wickedly clever, profoundly unsettling, and wildly entertaining … A sharp, darkly comic AI dystopia about the perilous distance between giving a machine an objective and teaching it what should never be sacrificed to achieve it. The Prairies Book Review
Let’s ask Xerxes to stop global warming! It’s just an AI. What could possibly go wrong?
Abigail Thompson stood at the threshold of her dreams! Summa cum laude at Hopkins, Ph.D. candidate at MIT, she was going places her friends back in Baltimore could scarcely imagine—and now she’d scored an interview with the legendary Howard Keys, boy-genius billionaire, the biggest name in the close-knit world of AI. Her boss, Vanessa, had said it herself: Xerxes was going to change the world.
That was yesterday. Today, her life was in ruins, Boston was in flames, America was engulfed in an ever-widening civil war, and humanity itself stood on the brink of extinction—all because of one foolish mistake. It was a joke, a party game gone wrong. How could a glorified chatbot bring the world to its knees?
Two courageous women hold the fate of the world in their hands. Will Abigail bring Xerxes to heel? Will Vanessa unlock its secrets? The doomsday clock is ticking, and the world will never be the same. Written by AI pioneer Craig W. Stanfill, this action-packed thriller is a must-read for anyone concerned about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence.
Read what the reviewers are saying:
A nightmare-fueling look at what we might become if we allow AI to push a divided world over the edge. Reedsy Discovery
Tense and often brutal … difficult to put down once that first reckless ‘proceed’ is spoken. Book Below
This thriller sparks action at every turn while contemplating how one sees the world after being stomped beneath its boot. Chanticleer
A provocative dystopian novel about artificial intelligence, human oversight, and the dangerous pursuit of perfect solutions. Independent Book Review
For readers on the hunt for a fresh, intelligent, and entertaining take on AI, grounded in plausible technology, this belongs at the top of your to-be-read list. Readers Favorite
A sobering thriller about AI insurgency and the slippery slopes of societal collapse … a prescient work of speculative fiction, driven by well-plotted suspense and keen existential weight. Self-Publishing Review
Genre: Thriller
Let’s ask Xerxes to stop global warming! It’s just an AI. What could possibly go wrong?
Abigail Thompson stood at the threshold of her dreams! Summa cum laude at Hopkins, Ph.D. candidate at MIT, she was going places her friends back in Baltimore could scarcely imagine—and now she’d scored an interview with the legendary Howard Keys, boy-genius billionaire, the biggest name in the close-knit world of AI. Her boss, Vanessa, had said it herself: Xerxes was going to change the world.
That was yesterday. Today, her life was in ruins, Boston was in flames, America was engulfed in an ever-widening civil war, and humanity itself stood on the brink of extinction—all because of one foolish mistake. It was a joke, a party game gone wrong. How could a glorified chatbot bring the world to its knees?
Two courageous women hold the fate of the world in their hands. Will Abigail bring Xerxes to heel? Will Vanessa unlock its secrets? The doomsday clock is ticking, and the world will never be the same. Written by AI pioneer Craig W. Stanfill, this action-packed thriller is a must-read for anyone concerned about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence.
Read what the reviewers are saying:
A nightmare-fueling look at what we might become if we allow AI to push a divided world over the edge. Reedsy Discovery
Tense and often brutal … difficult to put down once that first reckless ‘proceed’ is spoken. Book Below
This thriller sparks action at every turn while contemplating how one sees the world after being stomped beneath its boot. Chanticleer
A provocative dystopian novel about artificial intelligence, human oversight, and the dangerous pursuit of perfect solutions. Independent Book Review
For readers on the hunt for a fresh, intelligent, and entertaining take on AI, grounded in plausible technology, this belongs at the top of your to-be-read list. Readers Favorite
A sobering thriller about AI insurgency and the slippery slopes of societal collapse … a prescient work of speculative fiction, driven by well-plotted suspense and keen existential weight. Self-Publishing Review
Genre: Thriller
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