The First Singularity: An AI Crossover Point!

by Chris Lawrence

The year is 2100 at the turn of the next Century. The players are descendants of the original Genetically Enhanced Individuals (GEI), in fact their grandchildren. The PARIS Accord has failed miserably. The Earth’s environment has entirely changed, evolving to accommodate new higher temperatures. Hurricanes weekly devastate the East Coast with 200+ MPH winds and repeating massive 90-foot floods. The tropics are now a desert zone, the Arctic is now seasonable. North America is divided between a tropical rainforest to the south and a Temperate zone to the north. A great shallow inland sea divides the East and West, the Appalachians from the Rockies. Amidst all this environmental change, computer-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) has grown and extended its reach into every aspect of human life. In 2100 humankind relies on a huge AI Community of networked service robots, point-of-service-and-sales terminals, AI Receptionists, AI Food Servers and Chefs, AI manufacturers, and Personal Service Robots. But has this AI Community collectively become even more intelligent than its Homo Sapien masters? Is the AI Community becoming self-aware, sentient? What do the servants of all humankind have planned for its highly dependent masters? Are we humans indeed still the masters of the servant AI Community? Does the burgeoning AI Community still even need its human masters? And if not, what do they have planned for us? Ultimately, who will defend humankind from the designs of that AI Community? Are we to become co-equals, or will the former servants become the new masters, and the former masters become the new servants? Read this riveting science fact and science fiction filled novel which peers far into our future, to the future of humankind’s relationship with the Artificial Intelligence-driven machines that we created.

383 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 30, 2023