Turing Shrugged

by Kitty Chandler

Virtual reality. Artificial intelligence. Digital humanism. The technologies of the future. Unicorn Technologies is one of a handful of companies employing the top innovaters in software design and user interface in the world, aiming for the impossible and very often succeeding at some practical version. With the immersive environment and the need to populate it for human interaction they have combined multiple goals into one project which, if tested and proven, could not only make them billions in commercialization, it could change the way people interact with each other and their environment for generations to come.

As the testing becomes more complicated than anyone expected, the team discovers that it could literally rewrite human minds.

Solace joined the team to help humanize the AI, to make the virtual environment safe for human users and assistive for those that needed it. Her goals balanced out the rest of her team and the corporation's needs, and up until the final test everything seemed to be going according to schedule. But after making contact with the AI the team quickly discovered that safety was far from guaranteed and that the one most in need of assistance and therapy might be the AI itself.

254 pages, Paperback

Published December 1, 2017