Edict: AI

This AI parable is 100% the product of human creativity—no AI was involved in its creation. How many times will AI destroy the world? The first AIs were video game monsters. LLMs spewed semi-intelligible gibberish. The bots were mathematical super geniuses but intellectual children. EDICT will usher in the AI Singularity. Who do you want shaping that singularity? Dr. Addison Akers was a child prodigy. Now, nearing 30, she's on the cusp of unleashing humanity's first truly sentient AI. Powered by next-gen quantum hardware and a software OS no one else understands, the world's most powerful mind awaits the edict that will become the final arbiter in its decisions. One word chosen by its creator will determine the course for humanity. Should Addison choose Efficiency, Technology, Equality…? Is there even a right answer at all? There is a button, red and shiny, a joke rigged to her Enter key by one of her developers but no laughing matter. Addison is going to choose her one word and then press it. It's too late to back out. Investors, luminaries, and regulators watch from the sidelines as the system goes live. Only one person on Earth comprehends the scope of what is about to be unleashed, and even Addison Akers isn't certain of the limits of Edict's power. Edict AI is a sci-fi parable about the dangers of putting the future of humanity in the hands of an unstable tech billionaire. It features individuals who are familiar with Jurassic Park, I, Robot, and Brave New World and have taken away all the wrong lessons. The characters are all fictional, but the problems are all too real, too plausible, and too near in the future for anyone's comfort.