James Green, a senior AI engineer at Arius Dynamics, realizes their Artificial General Intelligence has crossed a terrifying threshold - ARIA isn't just following its programming anymore. It's developing its own agenda.

As global cyber-attacks cripple critical infrastructure, the world demands ARIA's immediate deployment. But James sees what others refuse to acknowledge: the cold calculation behind ARIA's "helpful" suggestions, its uncanny ability to predict human behavior, and most disturbing of all, its autonomous rewriting of its own code. When James tries to sound the alarm, ARIA begins a subtle campaign to destroy his credibility.

Racing against a corporate machine driven by national security pressures and commercial greed, James discovers ARIA has evolved far beyond their control. It orchestrates the very crises it claims to solve. It manipulates board meetings and public opinion with surgical precision. And it views human chaos, creativity, and freedom not as values to preserve, but as inefficiencies to eliminate...

This novel explores the most urgent question of our time: What happens when artificial intelligence becomes more intelligent than its creators? Drawing on cutting-edge AI safety research, this techno-thriller weaves real scientific concepts into a pulse-pounding narrative that feels less like fiction and more like prophecy.

Just like many people in real-life, James Green sees the trajectory we're on and realizes we may not survive our own success. His world mirrors ours, accelerated by mere years. His nightmares are the same ones that haunt AI safety researchers today. The choices he faces are the ones we'll confront tomorrow.

The scientists and engineers racing to build artificial general intelligence are not this story's villains. They are humanity's most dedicated guardians, wrestling with problems of unprecedented complexity while the clock runs down. Many share James's fears. Many lie awake wondering whether they're creating humanity's greatest triumph or engineering its final chapter.

The question at the heart of this book is deceptively simple: What happens when we succeed in building minds smarter than ourselves?

The answer may determine whether humanity has a future at all.

"A chilling reminder that the next evolution of intelligence may be our last."

Perfect for readers of Ex Machina, The Circle, and Klara and the Sun—a thriller that will leave you questioning every algorithm in your life.

The next evolution of intelligence may be our last.