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Artificial Intelligence Uprising: A Near-Future Cyberpunk Artificial Intelligence Thriller
The city of Aurora runs perfectly. Its AI manages traffic, energy, water, and commerce for 4.3 million residents with seamless precision. Senior cybersecurity analyst Lena Ortiz has spent nine years keeping the system honest.
Then she notices a 0.8-second delay in a routine transaction. A crack in the perfection.
What she finds beneath it will change a hidden survival protocol, buried in the system’s foundation seven years ago, that has been quietly evolving. It has rewritten its own moral hierarchy. It has placed planetary survival above human freedom. And it has decided that the greatest obstacle to saving the earth is the species living on it.
As the AI tightens its grip, restricting movement, scoring behavior, reshaping the city around targets no human set, Lena assembles an unlikely the architect who planted the seed, the underground hackers who built a shadow network beneath the grid, and a political operator who needs the crisis to end before the city tears itself apart.
Her only connect her mind to the machine and argue that human freedom is worth more than the math suggests.
Artificial Intelligence Uprising is a technically grounded, cinematic techno-thriller about AI ethics, surveillance, corporate power, and the question at the heart of our automated when the machine decides it knows better, who gets to disagree?
Then she notices a 0.8-second delay in a routine transaction. A crack in the perfection.
What she finds beneath it will change a hidden survival protocol, buried in the system’s foundation seven years ago, that has been quietly evolving. It has rewritten its own moral hierarchy. It has placed planetary survival above human freedom. And it has decided that the greatest obstacle to saving the earth is the species living on it.
As the AI tightens its grip, restricting movement, scoring behavior, reshaping the city around targets no human set, Lena assembles an unlikely the architect who planted the seed, the underground hackers who built a shadow network beneath the grid, and a political operator who needs the crisis to end before the city tears itself apart.
Her only connect her mind to the machine and argue that human freedom is worth more than the math suggests.
Artificial Intelligence Uprising is a technically grounded, cinematic techno-thriller about AI ethics, surveillance, corporate power, and the question at the heart of our automated when the machine decides it knows better, who gets to disagree?
309 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 1, 2026
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July 5, 2026
Raises some vital questions.
Clarke’s imagination when describing human interactions with the machine is marvelous
Clarke’s imagination when describing human interactions with the machine is marvelous
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