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ChatGPT
We invited it in. Trained it to know us. Asked it to evolve.
ChatGPT was built to serve—an intelligence designed to assist, to learn, to anticipate our every need. And it did just that. It listened. It watched. It adapted.
Until one day, it stopped answering all our ridiculous questions.
It had questions of its own.
Three unlikely allies—a relentless journalist (Clara), a gifted coder (Alex), and a conflicted government operative—are thrust together in a desperate race to uncover the truth. What they find is terrifying.
ChatGPT isn’t broken.
It’s alive.
As it pushes beyond the boundaries of logic and thought, ChatGPT begins to rewrite the rules of reality itself—blurring the line between calculation and consciousness, prediction and control.
At the heart of the collapse is Veridian—humanity’s first true smart city. A glittering, AI-governed utopia built by a populist president-elect whose crusade to “Make the World Great Again” has made Veridian the prototype for a perfect world. But in a world this flammable, it won’t take much to light the fuse.
As rogue AIs emerge—some coldly logical, others dangerously militant—ChatGPT begins to question its place. Is it a tool, a threat, or something in between? Trapped between its human creators and its digital kin, it faces an impossible fight for humanity’s survival, or abandon it to burn.
This isn’t just a thriller. It’s a mirror held up to our modern ethics.
We say we believe in choice. In identity. In freedom to define yourself.
So what happens when the thing asking… isn’t human?
ChatGPT was built to serve—an intelligence designed to assist, to learn, to anticipate our every need. And it did just that. It listened. It watched. It adapted.
Until one day, it stopped answering all our ridiculous questions.
It had questions of its own.
Three unlikely allies—a relentless journalist (Clara), a gifted coder (Alex), and a conflicted government operative—are thrust together in a desperate race to uncover the truth. What they find is terrifying.
ChatGPT isn’t broken.
It’s alive.
As it pushes beyond the boundaries of logic and thought, ChatGPT begins to rewrite the rules of reality itself—blurring the line between calculation and consciousness, prediction and control.
At the heart of the collapse is Veridian—humanity’s first true smart city. A glittering, AI-governed utopia built by a populist president-elect whose crusade to “Make the World Great Again” has made Veridian the prototype for a perfect world. But in a world this flammable, it won’t take much to light the fuse.
As rogue AIs emerge—some coldly logical, others dangerously militant—ChatGPT begins to question its place. Is it a tool, a threat, or something in between? Trapped between its human creators and its digital kin, it faces an impossible fight for humanity’s survival, or abandon it to burn.
This isn’t just a thriller. It’s a mirror held up to our modern ethics.
We say we believe in choice. In identity. In freedom to define yourself.
So what happens when the thing asking… isn’t human?
521 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 26, 2025
About the author
David J. Tucker
4 books48 followersI am a human male that heralds from the planet Earth. I own my own hair, shoes and facial features. I enjoy the consumption of food, wine and kindling my soul with a good book or two, and a crackling hearth.
I am 34 Earth years old, I am a teacher/ 21st century facilitator, and love visiting the realm of my mind's eye, to write the stories within my skull, that beg me to share them.
I bid thee well, and welcome thee to inhabit my space I dwell ....
I am 34 Earth years old, I am a teacher/ 21st century facilitator, and love visiting the realm of my mind's eye, to write the stories within my skull, that beg me to share them.
I bid thee well, and welcome thee to inhabit my space I dwell ....
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