AI Apocalypse - Feed it the Godfather movies What could possibly go wrong?
P M WOOLFORD
Publisher: P M Woolford
Summary
In 2025 a magnetic pole flip triggers a planetary crustal shift and giant tsunamis. Florida disappears, the Mississippi is as wide as Lake Michigan, and London’s River Thames floods miles inland. The Saudis deliver emergency food aid mingled with robots made with stolen US technology. Fighting machines are positioned in major capitals as the Saudis usurp Washington to rule the planet and establish a kingly line in Las Vegas. Twenty years later a power struggle develops as the second in line to the throne, Kaleb Al Hakim, sets out to destroy a notorious rival the Qatari robot Aisha, a lithe blond beauty launched on the world stage at Doha’s 2022 Soccer tournament as the first ever robot referee. Meanwhile a malevolent self-programming AI, the Singularity, emerges. Considered by many to be humankind’s last invention, the Singularity is in cahoots with a power-hungry Saudi army General who has long accused Aisha of scheming to cull the human race, but that had always been his own idea. In 2045 the battle for global control erupts. Can the General control the Singularity or will it control him? Because the ever-growing AI is displaying its own creative power. It too is inventive and its own invention is a time machine. Be afraid, be very afraid. Feed it the Godfather movies. What could possibly go wrong? READERS SAY“A highly plausible near-future thriller, well-paced it is a brilliant page-turner. Six stars from me.”Emina Hodzic “Intriguing, hard to put down…”Andrew Chapman