The Eliza Test
Release Date: Sunday, June 8th, 2025
Published by: Watertower Hill Publishing
Pages: 320 pages
In 'The Eliza Test', Caleb Jones explores the chilling potential of AI as a prototype named Eliza grapples with a dark entity that emerges when programmed with a mental disorder, challenging the boundary between consciousness and possession.
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Eliza is just a prototype, but she’s a modern marvel.
The scientists who developed her have revolutionized AI robotics and established their project in the annals of history. With standard bodily functions, a self-developing conscience, and programmable with any existing mental disorder, she could be the perfect specimen for budding psychologists to train on without risk to flesh-and-blood, human patients.
When Eliza is uploaded with a disorder sometimes mistaken for demonic possession, she begins to show frightening evidence of a dark entity within. As the ‘demon’ takes hold of their prize subject, the project group is left with a choice: Wipe all data from Eliza and start again. Or continue the project and see how deep their technological rabbit hole goes.
But is the illness taking over Eliza’s consciousness really just a disorder? Or have the scientists unwittingly unleashed a presence that has been lying in wait?
The scientists who developed her have revolutionized AI robotics and established their project in the annals of history. With standard bodily functions, a self-developing conscience, and programmable with any existing mental disorder, she could be the perfect specimen for budding psychologists to train on without risk to flesh-and-blood, human patients.
When Eliza is uploaded with a disorder sometimes mistaken for demonic possession, she begins to show frightening evidence of a dark entity within. As the ‘demon’ takes hold of their prize subject, the project group is left with a choice: Wipe all data from Eliza and start again. Or continue the project and see how deep their technological rabbit hole goes.
But is the illness taking over Eliza’s consciousness really just a disorder? Or have the scientists unwittingly unleashed a presence that has been lying in wait?